Divine Providence, Or, The Three Cycles of Revelation: Showing the Parallelism of the Patriarchal, Jewish, and Christian Dispensations : Being a New Evidence of the Divine Origin of Christianity |
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... the existence of a supreme Deity was the general belief . Thus Cudworth says , " As for the generality of the Greeks , whether they apprehended B The process by which the human understand- ing may be The Existence of.
... the existence of a supreme Deity was the general belief . Thus Cudworth says , " As for the generality of the Greeks , whether they apprehended B The process by which the human understand- ing may be The Existence of.
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... deities . The progress of vice must be boundless , when every man might sanction his excesses by the example of a deity fabricated on his own model , ( Terence . ) The Greeks reckoned five classes of superior beings : -the Supreme God ...
... deities . The progress of vice must be boundless , when every man might sanction his excesses by the example of a deity fabricated on his own model , ( Terence . ) The Greeks reckoned five classes of superior beings : -the Supreme God ...
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... Deity must be without limit . The point is , whether it has been exerted ? The onus clearly lies on the Materialist . Let him show that the properties of matter have any similitude to the faculties of spirit ; that weight , solidity ...
... Deity must be without limit . The point is , whether it has been exerted ? The onus clearly lies on the Materialist . Let him show that the properties of matter have any similitude to the faculties of spirit ; that weight , solidity ...
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... Deity , in the existence of the Trinity ; and the moral nature , in the offices of the redemption : both already shadowed forth to the piety of the Jew ; but reserving their full light for the understanding of the Christian . Nor are we ...
... Deity , in the existence of the Trinity ; and the moral nature , in the offices of the redemption : both already shadowed forth to the piety of the Jew ; but reserving their full light for the understanding of the Christian . Nor are we ...
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... Deity , constantly as they are in operation before our eyes , we know only enough to know that they are im- measurable . We give names to four or five ; but those are names not for faculties , but for vast classes of faculties ; for ...
... Deity , constantly as they are in operation before our eyes , we know only enough to know that they are im- measurable . We give names to four or five ; but those are names not for faculties , but for vast classes of faculties ; for ...
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Page 25 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years : 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 186 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page xi - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 515 - And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever...
Page 262 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 550 - But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Page 164 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 132 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 400 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.