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... thought it best to print them in the order in which they were delivered ; and though in preparing them for the press I might perhaps have introduced some altera- tions and additions , which would have made them less unworthy of ...
... thought it best to print them in the order in which they were delivered ; and though in preparing them for the press I might perhaps have introduced some altera- tions and additions , which would have made them less unworthy of ...
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... thoughts are trained to range in a wider field , to trace effects to their causes , and to weigh conflicting evidence before assent is given . Philosophy is the school of scepticism : not that the one necessarily , or even generally ...
... thoughts are trained to range in a wider field , to trace effects to their causes , and to weigh conflicting evidence before assent is given . Philosophy is the school of scepticism : not that the one necessarily , or even generally ...
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... thoughts of pious and learned men , and which to all persons are most convincing , we shall find that all , or nearly all of them , depend upon the fact of the New Testament being true : or , to express myself in a few words , the ...
... thoughts of pious and learned men , and which to all persons are most convincing , we shall find that all , or nearly all of them , depend upon the fact of the New Testament being true : or , to express myself in a few words , the ...
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... thought genuine , than those which pass under the name of Orpheus , which are quoted almost as profusely by later writers , and even by Plato himself , and yet are universally acknowledged not to have been written by Orpheus . The New ...
... thought genuine , than those which pass under the name of Orpheus , which are quoted almost as profusely by later writers , and even by Plato himself , and yet are universally acknowledged not to have been written by Orpheus . The New ...
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... this book proceeds from God , who would not , before he studies it , prostrate himself in prayer to Him who gave it , and humbly ask that his thoughts and his will may be brought into see and admit the truth 11. ] 43 CHRISTIANITY .
... this book proceeds from God , who would not , before he studies it , prostrate himself in prayer to Him who gave it , and humbly ask that his thoughts and his will may be brought into see and admit the truth 11. ] 43 CHRISTIANITY .
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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.