Certain Principles in Evanson's "Dissonance of the Four Generally Received Evangelists", &c. Examined: In Eight Discourses Delivered Before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, in the Year MDCCCX., at the Lecture Founded by the Late Rev. John Bampton, Canon of Salisbury |
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... itself can be referred to human capacity only as being fomething , whofe dictates could not originate from the powers of man , but which those powers are adapted to communicate . We may now adjust the statement of the argument in this ...
... itself can be referred to human capacity only as being fomething , whofe dictates could not originate from the powers of man , but which those powers are adapted to communicate . We may now adjust the statement of the argument in this ...
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... itself learn- ing , but the means of communication ; not the thing to be communicated , which may , or may not , be learning . If indeed it thould be imagined , that after a lapse of time it might be necessary that the Gospel should be ...
... itself learn- ing , but the means of communication ; not the thing to be communicated , which may , or may not , be learning . If indeed it thould be imagined , that after a lapse of time it might be necessary that the Gospel should be ...
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... itself . It is alledged , that another method is in- dicated for attaining certainty on these sub- jects ; " the power of God , " by which the au- thor of " The Diffonance " understands " the " teftimony of prophecy . " But no example ...
... itself . It is alledged , that another method is in- dicated for attaining certainty on these sub- jects ; " the power of God , " by which the au- thor of " The Diffonance " understands " the " teftimony of prophecy . " But no example ...
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... pofeable motive to falfify as to the main fact " itself . " It must indeed be allowed , that f Evanson's Letter to Dr. Priestley's Young Man , p . 6 . where the evidence is contemporary with the events , and 24 SERMON I.
... pofeable motive to falfify as to the main fact " itself . " It must indeed be allowed , that f Evanson's Letter to Dr. Priestley's Young Man , p . 6 . where the evidence is contemporary with the events , and 24 SERMON I.
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... dependence upon the truth of fuch facts as the war of Troy , or the invafion of Greece . But history has been always believed on the fame kind of evidence . Even fable itself has not been always intro- duced to 26 SERMON I.
... dependence upon the truth of fuch facts as the war of Troy , or the invafion of Greece . But history has been always believed on the fame kind of evidence . Even fable itself has not been always intro- duced to 26 SERMON I.
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Page xii - Printing-House, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St. Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement of the last month in Lent Term and the end of the third week in Act Term.
Page 107 - Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
Page 324 - The wild boar out of the wood doth root it up: and the wild beasts of the field devour it. 14 Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down...
Page xii - Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following subjects, — to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics — upon the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures — upon the authority of the writings of the Primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the Primitive Church — upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ — upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost — upon the Articles of the Christian Faith, as comprehended in the Apostles
Page 377 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 33 - 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 : for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Page 347 - These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
Page xi - of the Univerfity of Oxford for ever, to have and " to hold all and fingular the faid Lands or Eftates " upon truft, and to the intents and purpofes herein...
Page xi - ... deductions made) that he pay all the remainder to the endowment of eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, to be...