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... kind as these great truths are recognised in our ordinary lives and that a fair and candid mind is no more justified in refusing credence to these articles of our faith , than it is in ignoring the every - day phenomena of man's ...
... kind as these great truths are recognised in our ordinary lives and that a fair and candid mind is no more justified in refusing credence to these articles of our faith , than it is in ignoring the every - day phenomena of man's ...
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... hand , do not let us press it further than is fair . I suppose some- thing of the kind is the case with us about all very solemn things . We all know we B must die ; but a sentence of death , or IN ADVENT THE LORD'S COMING.
... hand , do not let us press it further than is fair . I suppose some- thing of the kind is the case with us about all very solemn things . We all know we B must die ; but a sentence of death , or IN ADVENT THE LORD'S COMING.
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... kind . Matters unknown to the historian are related by his pen . Facts and precepts of which God alone was cogni- zant , are described by him . If we ask , how ? The only Christian answer is , that God put them into his mind : opened ...
... kind . Matters unknown to the historian are related by his pen . Facts and precepts of which God alone was cogni- zant , are described by him . If we ask , how ? The only Christian answer is , that God put them into his mind : opened ...
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... kind of un- belief of which I speak , is not , as its most popular expounder would have us believe , to clear up the character of Jesus , and set Him before us as a great teacher and example ; but it is , to put Him altogether out of ...
... kind of un- belief of which I speak , is not , as its most popular expounder would have us believe , to clear up the character of Jesus , and set Him before us as a great teacher and example ; but it is , to put Him altogether out of ...
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... kind were such convulsions as these ? Granted , as I said before , that they may have been brought about by the exaggerated agency of laws still operating ; what has now become of such exaggerated agencies ? Why are they not continually ...
... kind were such convulsions as these ? Granted , as I said before , that they may have been brought about by the exaggerated agency of laws still operating ; what has now become of such exaggerated agencies ? Why are they not continually ...
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