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... spirit of God , that directed thefe facred writings . And the death of this great man was agreeable to his life . For we are informed , by one who was with him when he died , and had lived in the fame family for feven years before ...
... spirit of God , that directed thefe facred writings . And the death of this great man was agreeable to his life . For we are informed , by one who was with him when he died , and had lived in the fame family for feven years before ...
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... spirits , who rejoiced in the moft cruel facrifices , and in offerings of the greatest impurity , and , in fhort , to call upon mankind to exert their whole ftrength in the love and adoration of that one Being from whom they derived ...
... spirits , who rejoiced in the moft cruel facrifices , and in offerings of the greatest impurity , and , in fhort , to call upon mankind to exert their whole ftrength in the love and adoration of that one Being from whom they derived ...
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... spirits would enter into a combination with our Saviour to cut off all their correfpondence and intercourfe with mankind , and to prevent any for the future from addicting them- felves to thofe rights and ceremonies which had done them ...
... spirits would enter into a combination with our Saviour to cut off all their correfpondence and intercourfe with mankind , and to prevent any for the future from addicting them- felves to thofe rights and ceremonies which had done them ...
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... spirits would lend them fuch an effectual affittance to beat down vice and idolatry ? V. When the Apostles had formed many assemblies in feveral parts of the Pagan world , who gave credit to the glad tidings of the gofpel , that , upon ...
... spirits would lend them fuch an effectual affittance to beat down vice and idolatry ? V. When the Apostles had formed many assemblies in feveral parts of the Pagan world , who gave credit to the glad tidings of the gofpel , that , upon ...
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... spirit which he had promised to fend among his difciples . V. But I find no argument made a ftronger impref- fion on the minds of thefe eminent Pagan converts , for ftrengthening their faith in the hiftory of our Saviour , than the ...
... spirit which he had promised to fend among his difciples . V. But I find no argument made a ftronger impref- fion on the minds of thefe eminent Pagan converts , for ftrengthening their faith in the hiftory of our Saviour , than the ...
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Page 53 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 61 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 119 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Page 52 - If we consider him in his omnipresence, his being passes through, actuates, and supports the whole frame of nature. His creation, and every part of it, is full of him.
Page 56 - Who then can bear the thought of being an outcast from his presence, that is, from the comforts of it ; or of feeling it only in its terrors ! How pathetic is that...
Page 56 - Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.
Page iii - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 88 - Being, naturally produces patience, hope, cheerfulness, and all other dispositions of mind that alleviate those calamities which we are not able to remove. The practice of this virtue administers great comfort to the mind of man in times of poverty and affliction, but most of all in the hour of death.
Page 72 - THOSE who were skilful in anatomy, among the ancients, concluded, from the outward and inward make of an human body, that it was the work of a Being transcendently wise and powerful. As the world grew more enlightened in this art, their discoveries gave them fresh opportunities of admiring the conduct of Providence in the formation of a human body.
Page 52 - It would be an imperfection in him, were he able to remove out of one place into .another, or to withdraw himself from any thing he has created, or from any part of that space which is diffused and spread abroad to infinity.