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... necessary to hold up their doctrines to your execration , -indeed , where there would have been no opportunity given you even of hearing them . It is evident , that you could not have been a Protestant upon this ground ; but , that some ...
... necessary to hold up their doctrines to your execration , -indeed , where there would have been no opportunity given you even of hearing them . It is evident , that you could not have been a Protestant upon this ground ; but , that some ...
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... satisfactorily settled , and they have not thought it necessary to trouble their minds in in- quiring farther ; learned men have done it for them ; and the principles of the Reformation have been too firmly established , INTRODUCTION .
... satisfactorily settled , and they have not thought it necessary to trouble their minds in in- quiring farther ; learned men have done it for them ; and the principles of the Reformation have been too firmly established , INTRODUCTION .
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... necessary for you to understand them . You must not only be satis- fied that the Bible has been given as the word of God ; but you must be ready to meet the innumerable and compli- cated difficulties which are brought by others against ...
... necessary for you to understand them . You must not only be satis- fied that the Bible has been given as the word of God ; but you must be ready to meet the innumerable and compli- cated difficulties which are brought by others against ...
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... necessary , that they should in a manner first become Jews , before they can be brought to Christianity . He has recourse to a totally different character of evidence ; he preaches to them - men of a philosophic and studious mind- —a ...
... necessary , that they should in a manner first become Jews , before they can be brought to Christianity . He has recourse to a totally different character of evidence ; he preaches to them - men of a philosophic and studious mind- —a ...
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... necessary , they even acknowledged to be out of reason's power . But when christianity was examined , it was discovered to present a full and consistent answer to every query , a satisfactory so- lution of every doubt , and a perfect ...
... necessary , they even acknowledged to be out of reason's power . But when christianity was examined , it was discovered to present a full and consistent answer to every query , a satisfactory so- lution of every doubt , and a perfect ...
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Page 141 - Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from Heaven ; but my Father giveth you the true Bread from Heaven. For the Bread of God is He Which cometh down from Heaven, and giveth Life unto the world.
Page 158 - Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of...
Page 100 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 28 - Scriptures contain all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 161 - Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?" Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.
Page 277 - And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you, as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not ; and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
Page 105 - Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 145 - And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
Page 10 - We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings : Wherefore, that we are justified by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification.
Page 23 - The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!