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Page xvi
... argument against miracles generally has little or no force , directly the mere doctrine of a Creator and Supreme Governor is admitted , and prior to any reference to Scripture history ; that there is no question among religious men of ...
... argument against miracles generally has little or no force , directly the mere doctrine of a Creator and Supreme Governor is admitted , and prior to any reference to Scripture history ; that there is no question among religious men of ...
Page xviii
... argument of its not being closed as yet . If there be any thing in this objection , though perhaps there is not , I think " I have it in my power to obviate it , by fixing upon a period , beyond which we may be certain that miraculous ...
... argument of its not being closed as yet . If there be any thing in this objection , though perhaps there is not , I think " I have it in my power to obviate it , by fixing upon a period , beyond which we may be certain that miraculous ...
Page xix
... argument from a defence of what is true to a test of what is false . " If we set out with this as a principle , then shall we " easily determine when it was that miracles ceased to be " performed by Christians ; for we shall be led to ...
... argument from a defence of what is true to a test of what is false . " If we set out with this as a principle , then shall we " easily determine when it was that miracles ceased to be " performed by Christians ; for we shall be led to ...
Page xxi
... argument against a miraculous agency , before it has in any case been ascertained , that its object is apparently unimportant , than after such agency has once been manifested . What has been intro- duced for greater ends may , when ...
... argument against a miraculous agency , before it has in any case been ascertained , that its object is apparently unimportant , than after such agency has once been manifested . What has been intro- duced for greater ends may , when ...
Page xlvi
... argument from Analogy , and attempting to measure these occurrences by such rules and suggestions as the works of God , as brought before us in the visible creation or in Scripture , may be found to supply . And first of the natural ...
... argument from Analogy , and attempting to measure these occurrences by such rules and suggestions as the works of God , as brought before us in the visible creation or in Scripture , may be found to supply . And first of the natural ...
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Page xc - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh ; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions ; and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out My Spirit.
Page clxxi - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page lxxix - Solomon's porch ; and of the rest durst no man join himself to them. But the people magnified them ; and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women ; insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
Page xcviii - For there is no man that doeth any 'thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
Page lxxxi - And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear, him, and to be healed of their diseases ; 18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits : and they were healed.
Page lxxix - For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them : and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city.
Page cxci - IF there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams...
Page lv - 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 xx - If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Page lxxxiii - And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.