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... earth moves round the sun , although such a theory appears to contradict the senses , and the contrary was believed for hundreds of years by the wisest and acutest philosophers . How few persons are there , who are prepared to ...
... earth moves round the sun , although such a theory appears to contradict the senses , and the contrary was believed for hundreds of years by the wisest and acutest philosophers . How few persons are there , who are prepared to ...
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... earth and the infidel , upon his own hypothesis , can claim no advantage over us beyond the grave : but if we believe the Gospel , and our belief is true , we have indeed chosen the better part , and both here and hereafter we shall ...
... earth and the infidel , upon his own hypothesis , can claim no advantage over us beyond the grave : but if we believe the Gospel , and our belief is true , we have indeed chosen the better part , and both here and hereafter we shall ...
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... earth : there- fore , according to your reasoning , the devil supplies me with the means to destroy his own power , which is evidently absurd ; for if Satan cast out Satan , and he is divided against himself , how shall his kingdom ...
... earth : there- fore , according to your reasoning , the devil supplies me with the means to destroy his own power , which is evidently absurd ; for if Satan cast out Satan , and he is divided against himself , how shall his kingdom ...
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... earth and after specifying different acts of sin he adds , For which things ' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience . In the conclusion of the chapter he says , Whatever ye do , do it heartily , as to the Lord ...
... earth and after specifying different acts of sin he adds , For which things ' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience . In the conclusion of the chapter he says , Whatever ye do , do it heartily , as to the Lord ...
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... earth . We might perhaps shew that this idea pervades the poetry and mythology of almost every nation the Jews undoubtedly enter- 1 Luke xxiii . 46 . 2 Ibid ver . 43 . tained it ; and our Saviour only adopted the lan- 116 SERM ...
... earth . We might perhaps shew that this idea pervades the poetry and mythology of almost every nation the Jews undoubtedly enter- 1 Luke xxiii . 46 . 2 Ibid ver . 43 . tained it ; and our Saviour only adopted the lan- 116 SERM ...
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Page 205 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the Covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace ? For we know Him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto Me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.
Page 167 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Page 43 - Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Page 273 - Faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; Neither confounding the Persons: nor dividing the substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son : and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the glory equal, the Majesty coeternal.
Page 425 - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses...
Page 193 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Page 206 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
Page 139 - Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures ; and said unto them ; Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Page 407 - Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh : and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Page 141 - When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them ; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.