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... Divine Revelation . For , if fuch a thing be useful and important , and even neceffary to man , it must be fuitable to the Divine wisdom and goodness to bestow it . 1. If man had perfevered in his primitive inno- cence ; if principles ...
... Divine Revelation . For , if fuch a thing be useful and important , and even neceffary to man , it must be fuitable to the Divine wisdom and goodness to bestow it . 1. If man had perfevered in his primitive inno- cence ; if principles ...
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... divine light , amount to nothing higher than pro- bable conjecture . But that better evidence , in fo interesting a matter , must be a defirable thing , will be acknowledged by all men : —unless there be men who believe that a future ...
... divine light , amount to nothing higher than pro- bable conjecture . But that better evidence , in fo interesting a matter , must be a defirable thing , will be acknowledged by all men : —unless there be men who believe that a future ...
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... divine juftice . Of the neceffity of expiation for guilt , all mankind feem to have had an idea ; as appears from the univer- fal use of facrifices . But , from the multitude of the pagan expiatory rites ; from the abfurdity of all ...
... divine juftice . Of the neceffity of expiation for guilt , all mankind feem to have had an idea ; as appears from the univer- fal use of facrifices . But , from the multitude of the pagan expiatory rites ; from the abfurdity of all ...
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... divine grace and truth , they would probably at this day , have been confulting oracles , offering incense to idols , or perhaps , like many of our remote fore- fathers , polluting the creation with human fa- crifices . Certain it is ...
... divine grace and truth , they would probably at this day , have been confulting oracles , offering incense to idols , or perhaps , like many of our remote fore- fathers , polluting the creation with human fa- crifices . Certain it is ...
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... and Numa of Rome , were fo fenfible , that they thought it prudent to afcribe to their inftitutions a divine original , pretending that they received them from the gods . I Do not mean to say , that the doctrines CHAMPIONS OF TRUTH . 11.
... and Numa of Rome , were fo fenfible , that they thought it prudent to afcribe to their inftitutions a divine original , pretending that they received them from the gods . I Do not mean to say , that the doctrines CHAMPIONS OF TRUTH . 11.
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Page 176 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 199 - Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of •the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer...
Page 190 - Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Page 184 - Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you ; and I will not be burdensome to you : for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Page 416 - From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto His disciples, how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took Him, and began to rebuke Him, saying, Be it far from Thee, Lord: this shall not be unto Thee.
Page 183 - And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Page 180 - I more ; circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; an Hebrew of the Hebrews, as touching the law, a Pharisee, concerning zeal, persecuting the church, touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Page 185 - For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us; for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you, neither did we eat any man's bread for nought, but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you ; not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Page 395 - For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more...
Page 188 - Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos ; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you ? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul...