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... apostles and early Christians , if the facts reported by them were true , is a greater miracle than any which they have recorded . But the maxim , as stated by Mr , Hume , is not correct . With the change of a single word , perhaps , it ...
... apostles and early Christians , if the facts reported by them were true , is a greater miracle than any which they have recorded . But the maxim , as stated by Mr , Hume , is not correct . With the change of a single word , perhaps , it ...
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... apostles went forth into various countries preaching to the people , and declaring that this crucified Jesus was . a person sent from God , for the salvation of the world ; and that many were induced to connect themselves with the ...
... apostles went forth into various countries preaching to the people , and declaring that this crucified Jesus was . a person sent from God , for the salvation of the world ; and that many were induced to connect themselves with the ...
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... apostles lived . There is also ample proof , not only from Christian , but heathen authors , that a society , calling themselves Christians , existed as early as the reign of Nero , who was contemporary with the apostles . It is evident ...
... apostles lived . There is also ample proof , not only from Christian , but heathen authors , that a society , calling themselves Christians , existed as early as the reign of Nero , who was contemporary with the apostles . It is evident ...
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... apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ , so they were ascribed to the same persons , from the earliest mention of them . It is , by the ancient Fathers , spoken of as a fact , universally believed among Christians , and contradicted by ...
... apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ , so they were ascribed to the same persons , from the earliest mention of them . It is , by the ancient Fathers , spoken of as a fact , universally believed among Christians , and contradicted by ...
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... apostles . This is a peculiarity which none could counterfeit , and which demonstrates , that the New Testament was not composed by men of a different country and age , from those in wbich the apostles lived . In the New Testament ...
... apostles . This is a peculiarity which none could counterfeit , and which demonstrates , that the New Testament was not composed by men of a different country and age , from those in wbich the apostles lived . In the New Testament ...
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Page 224 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.
Page 203 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 64 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 74 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 227 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you : searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 225 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 131 - God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the King of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age : he gave them all into his hand.
Page 231 - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him; for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.
Page 137 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight : I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron : and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Page 224 - Then opened h'e their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures ; and said unto them ; Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.