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... Scriptures , in the view of the world , is in no small degree concerned with them . Unbelievers reproach us with giving credit to a book which is full of enigmas , and allege that every one interprets it according to his own fancy , and ...
... Scriptures , in the view of the world , is in no small degree concerned with them . Unbelievers reproach us with giving credit to a book which is full of enigmas , and allege that every one interprets it according to his own fancy , and ...
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... Scriptures , in the place of established principle and rule . With a sincere love for all that is new , whenever it is better then the old , I am still , throughout this book , a thor- ough Conservative in respect to the fixed and ...
... Scriptures , in the place of established principle and rule . With a sincere love for all that is new , whenever it is better then the old , I am still , throughout this book , a thor- ough Conservative in respect to the fixed and ...
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... scriptural interpretation presents few , if any , phenomena more peculiar than those which have been exhibited , by some of the modes in which parts of the books of Daniel and of the Revelation have been explained , by a large class of ...
... scriptural interpretation presents few , if any , phenomena more peculiar than those which have been exhibited , by some of the modes in which parts of the books of Daniel and of the Revelation have been explained , by a large class of ...
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... Scriptures have prescribed to us none of the rules which lead to such interpretations as those to be examined , nor have any of the Creeds of Protestants dictated any thing which binds us to admit them . Safe it may be , pro- vided ...
... Scriptures have prescribed to us none of the rules which lead to such interpretations as those to be examined , nor have any of the Creeds of Protestants dictated any thing which binds us to admit them . Safe it may be , pro- vided ...
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... Scripture a literal , ob- vious , historical sense , and interpret it as conveying the meaning which its words naturally ... Scriptures ? I shall not stop here to argue with those , who , finding difficulty in such a direct and palpably ...
... Scripture a literal , ob- vious , historical sense , and interpret it as conveying the meaning which its words naturally ... Scriptures ? I shall not stop here to argue with those , who , finding difficulty in such a direct and palpably ...
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