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... Ignorant Credulity - IV . A Definition of Orthodoxy - V . Fear not necessarily Cowardice - Prejudice is Honest - The Old has the Advantage in an Argument - St . Augustine - Jerome the Appeal to Charlemagne- Roger Bacon - Lord Bacon a ...
... Ignorant Credulity - IV . A Definition of Orthodoxy - V . Fear not necessarily Cowardice - Prejudice is Honest - The Old has the Advantage in an Argument - St . Augustine - Jerome the Appeal to Charlemagne- Roger Bacon - Lord Bacon a ...
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... ignorant that God was compelled to justify , or nearly to justify , many of their crimes , in order to have any influence with them whatever . They tell us that if he had declared slavery and polyg- amy to be criminal , the Jews would ...
... ignorant that God was compelled to justify , or nearly to justify , many of their crimes , in order to have any influence with them whatever . They tell us that if he had declared slavery and polyg- amy to be criminal , the Jews would ...
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... ignorance . His clemency will not fall short of justice , but will fulfill it perfectly . " Can we believe that God ever said of any one : " Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow ; let his children be continually vagabonds ...
... ignorance . His clemency will not fall short of justice , but will fulfill it perfectly . " Can we believe that God ever said of any one : " Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow ; let his children be continually vagabonds ...
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... ignorant of the scheme of salvation . I also admit that Mark never dreamed that it was necessary for a man to be born again ; that he knew nothing of the mysterious doctrine of regeneration , and that he never even suspected that it was ...
... ignorant of the scheme of salvation . I also admit that Mark never dreamed that it was necessary for a man to be born again ; that he knew nothing of the mysterious doctrine of regeneration , and that he never even suspected that it was ...
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... ignorant fear denounced the liberty of thought . Before If Christ was in fact God , he knew all the future . him , like a panorama , moved the history yet to be . He knew exactly how his words would be interpreted . He knew what crimes ...
... ignorant fear denounced the liberty of thought . Before If Christ was in fact God , he knew all the future . him , like a panorama , moved the history yet to be . He knew exactly how his words would be interpreted . He knew what crimes ...
Contents
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THE FIELDINGERSOLL DISCUSSION | 121 |
of OpinionCharles DarwinDr Fields Distinction between Super | 143 |
Retribution a Necessary Part of the Divine LawThe Case of Robin | 183 |
Claim The Incurably BadResponsibility for not seeing Things | 199 |
COLONEL INGERSOLL ON CHRISTIANITY | 221 |
Church not in DangerClasses who Break out into Articulate Blas | 251 |
and AbrahamRelation between Darwinism and the Inspiration | 255 |
Rise and FlourishMormonismAlleged Universality of the Catholic | 364 |
Some infamous PopesPart II How the Pope SpeaksReligions | 372 |
either Divine Origin or Supernatural AidCardinal Mannings Argu | 405 |
1889 | 406 |
from PolygamyBiblical MarriagePolygamy Simultaneous | 431 |
REPLY TO DR LYMAN ABBOTT | 455 |
1890 | 475 |
Power of KindnessCrimes against Soldiers and SailorsMisfortunes | 503 |
The Church Its Own Witness by Cardinal ManningEvidence | 307 |
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Page 72 - But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God . 4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
Page 302 - And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul : so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
Page 288 - Neither was there any among them that lacked : for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
Page 195 - What are these which are arrayed in white robes ? and whence came they? And I said unto him ; Sir thou knowest. And he said to me ; These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Page 89 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 203 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 196 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 190 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 270 - They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.