Christian Philosophy: Or, An Attempt to Display by Internal Testimony, the Evidence and Excellence of Revealed Religion. With an Appendix, on Mr. Paine's Pamphlet, on Prayer, Etc. ... |
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... doubt but that my subject is the most momentous which can fall under the contemplation of a human being ; and I therefore claim for it , as the happiness of mankind is at stake , a dispassionate and un- prejudiced attention . The moral ...
... doubt but that my subject is the most momentous which can fall under the contemplation of a human being ; and I therefore claim for it , as the happiness of mankind is at stake , a dispassionate and un- prejudiced attention . The moral ...
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... doubt and despair ; to save a soul from death ; objects so desirable , inspire an ardour which enables zeal to triumph over timidity . That unbelief in Christ is increasing in the present age , and that the spirit of the times is rather ...
... doubt and despair ; to save a soul from death ; objects so desirable , inspire an ardour which enables zeal to triumph over timidity . That unbelief in Christ is increasing in the present age , and that the spirit of the times is rather ...
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... to those who do his will . Therefore if any man seriously and earnestly desires to become a Christian , let him begin , whatever doubts * John vii . 17 . C he may entertain of the truth of Christianity , by CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY . 25.
... to those who do his will . Therefore if any man seriously and earnestly desires to become a Christian , let him begin , whatever doubts * John vii . 17 . C he may entertain of the truth of Christianity , by CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY . 25.
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... doubts , than ( 6 can be obtained by all the polemical and impertinent 46 disputations of the world . The man that is wise , he " that is conducted by the Spirit of God , knows better " in what Christ's kingdom doth consist than to ...
... doubts , than ( 6 can be obtained by all the polemical and impertinent 46 disputations of the world . The man that is wise , he " that is conducted by the Spirit of God , knows better " in what Christ's kingdom doth consist than to ...
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... , and humble confidence . " It is also a notable part of the Holy Spirit's office to " comfort and sustain us in all our religious practice , so " particularly in our doubts , difficulties , distresses , 56 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY .
... , and humble confidence . " It is also a notable part of the Holy Spirit's office to " comfort and sustain us in all our religious practice , so " particularly in our doubts , difficulties , distresses , 56 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY .
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Page 107 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 203 - Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish : for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Page 312 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 130 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 261 - God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these Thy servants by water and the Holy Ghost, and hast given unto them forgiveness of all their sins ; strengthen them, we beseech Thee, O Lord, with the Holy Ghost the Comforter, and daily increase in them Thy manifold gifts of grace...
Page 188 - But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
Page 189 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 262 - Let thy Fatherly hand, we beseech thee, ever be over them : Let thy HOLY SPIRIT ever be with them : and so lead them in the knowledge and obedience of thy word, that in the end they may obtain everlasting life...
Page v - Jews ; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law...
Page 128 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.