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... darkness in which we are left with regard to his purposes towards us . The contrivances so visible in the human body , mark the end for which they were intended , but the human soul is less obviously destined to a particular end . There ...
... darkness in which we are left with regard to his purposes towards us . The contrivances so visible in the human body , mark the end for which they were intended , but the human soul is less obviously destined to a particular end . There ...
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... darkness . V. It was an objection frequently brought forward by infidels , that amid so many pretences to revelation , it was difficult to discover the true one . But the contrary is the fact . Christianity , without offering any one of ...
... darkness . V. It was an objection frequently brought forward by infidels , that amid so many pretences to revelation , it was difficult to discover the true one . But the contrary is the fact . Christianity , without offering any one of ...
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... darkness , quiet its fears , and satisfy its longings , nor is there any choice between it , and the most absolute skepticism . All other creeds but the Koran , rest merely upon their antiquity ; and the Koran , upon the purity of its ...
... darkness , quiet its fears , and satisfy its longings , nor is there any choice between it , and the most absolute skepticism . All other creeds but the Koran , rest merely upon their antiquity ; and the Koran , upon the purity of its ...
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... darkness . And ignorant as we are of the elements of matter , and only acquainted with a few of their combi- nations , how could it be expected that the soul of man should ever be able to ascend to communion with the 42.
... darkness . And ignorant as we are of the elements of matter , and only acquainted with a few of their combi- nations , how could it be expected that the soul of man should ever be able to ascend to communion with the 42.
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... darkness which time brings over other writings , and to repair the losses which the negligence of tran- scribers have occasioned . While every sentence has its corresponding and equivalent member , the sense , which in one is obscured ...
... darkness which time brings over other writings , and to repair the losses which the negligence of tran- scribers have occasioned . While every sentence has its corresponding and equivalent member , the sense , which in one is obscured ...
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Page 154 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves, and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Page 193 - Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one,— as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us : that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be one even as we are one.
Page 91 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 140 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Page 137 - ROMANS p)AUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of .God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead...
Page 154 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Page 155 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh : how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God...
Page 220 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Page 159 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Page 135 - Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre, Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.