The Sceptic's Manual: Or, Christianity Verified, Being a New Method of Appeal to the Understandings and Consciences of Deists, Jews, Sceptics, and Formal Professors ... as Exemplified in the Conversion of Notorious Sinners, and in the Lives of Distinguished Saints |
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... Devils . By such a pitiful slander as this , Por- phyry , Hierocles , Celsus , and Julian the Apostate , those learned and inveterate enemies of Christianity , endeavoured ( as the Pharisees had done before them ) to sap the arguments ...
... Devils . By such a pitiful slander as this , Por- phyry , Hierocles , Celsus , and Julian the Apostate , those learned and inveterate enemies of Christianity , endeavoured ( as the Pharisees had done before them ) to sap the arguments ...
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... . ii . 9. of him whose coming is after the working of Satan , with power , and signs , and lying wonders ; and Rev. xiii . 14. xvi . 14. and xix . 20. of the devil and false prophets working mira- cles . But .56 EASY METHODA.
... . ii . 9. of him whose coming is after the working of Satan , with power , and signs , and lying wonders ; and Rev. xiii . 14. xvi . 14. and xix . 20. of the devil and false prophets working mira- cles . But .56 EASY METHODA.
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... devil and false prophets working mira- cles . But the word in all these places is only Semeia , signs , that is as it is rendered , Matth . xxv . 24 ; which , though sometimes it may be used to signify real miracles ; yet not always ...
... devil and false prophets working mira- cles . But the word in all these places is only Semeia , signs , that is as it is rendered , Matth . xxv . 24 ; which , though sometimes it may be used to signify real miracles ; yet not always ...
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... devils , so is it more than ever God almighty has done since the foundation of the world . None of the miracles that he has shown , or belief which he has required . to any thing that he has revealed , has ever contradicted the outward ...
... devils , so is it more than ever God almighty has done since the foundation of the world . None of the miracles that he has shown , or belief which he has required . to any thing that he has revealed , has ever contradicted the outward ...
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... devils ; and more than God himself ever yet showed or expressed , to deceive and impose upon the senses of man- kind , in such public and notorious mat- ters of fact . * 1 * Reason itself dictates , that nothing but the plainest matter ...
... devils ; and more than God himself ever yet showed or expressed , to deceive and impose upon the senses of man- kind , in such public and notorious mat- ters of fact . * 1 * Reason itself dictates , that nothing but the plainest matter ...
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Page 179 - Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
Page 179 - Look unto me , and be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth; for I AM GOD, and there is none else.
Page 164 - And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Page 153 - And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD...
Page 181 - I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day; and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying; I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last...
Page 19 - And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben : how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
Page 158 - Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God...
Page 20 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 158 - I have loved thee with an everlasting love ; therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.
Page 164 - And I knew him not, but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.