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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... less perceptible . If this confequence is not to be admitted , why are we to appreciate the excellence and fublimity of the doctrines and precepts of the Gospel by an oppofition of the incapacity of its teachers ? If , on the other hand ...
... less perceptible . If this confequence is not to be admitted , why are we to appreciate the excellence and fublimity of the doctrines and precepts of the Gospel by an oppofition of the incapacity of its teachers ? If , on the other hand ...
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... less educated Apoftles were engaged in preaching the fame Gospel in other parts of the world . But the portion of time , which had elapfed fince the promulgation of Christianity , had made no alteration in the state of the world , as to ...
... less educated Apoftles were engaged in preaching the fame Gospel in other parts of the world . But the portion of time , which had elapfed fince the promulgation of Christianity , had made no alteration in the state of the world , as to ...
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... less of that evidence neceffary for its authentication . But what form would fuch evidence then afsume ? It would become merely a copy of the writing in question . Nor fhould we obtain more af- furance , even if these miracles were all ...
... less of that evidence neceffary for its authentication . But what form would fuch evidence then afsume ? It would become merely a copy of the writing in question . Nor fhould we obtain more af- furance , even if these miracles were all ...
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... less subject to the mistakes " and fallacious impreffions of sense than mi- " racles are . " Upon comparing these paffages we find , that in one a miracle is admitted to be a perfect proof , and in the other to be no proof whatever . It ...
... less subject to the mistakes " and fallacious impreffions of sense than mi- " racles are . " Upon comparing these paffages we find , that in one a miracle is admitted to be a perfect proof , and in the other to be no proof whatever . It ...
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... less evidence than is afforded , or than ought to be required , or upon evidence , which , having no appropriate reference to the thing whose existence or properties we admit , is equivalent to no evidence whatever . Even to affect ...
... less evidence than is afforded , or than ought to be required , or upon evidence , which , having no appropriate reference to the thing whose existence or properties we admit , is equivalent to no evidence whatever . Even to affect ...
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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.
Page xii - University, and one copy to the Head of every College, and one copy to the Mayor of the city of Oxford, and one copy to be put into the Bodleian Library; and the...
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...