The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation |
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... hope , and upon the same principles . None can be supposed so utterly regardless of their own happiness as to expire in torment , and ha- zard their eternity , to fupport any fables and inventions of their own , or any for- geries of ...
... hope , and upon the same principles . None can be supposed so utterly regardless of their own happiness as to expire in torment , and ha- zard their eternity , to fupport any fables and inventions of their own , or any for- geries of ...
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... hope , their encourage- ment , and their glory . We cannot there- fore imagine , that there was a single per- fon , arrived at any degree of age or con- fideration , who had not heard and re- peated above a thousand times in his life ...
... hope , their encourage- ment , and their glory . We cannot there- fore imagine , that there was a single per- fon , arrived at any degree of age or con- fideration , who had not heard and re- peated above a thousand times in his life ...
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... very natural for us to take de- ' light in enquiries concerning any foreign country , where we are fome time or ' other to make our abode ; and as we all ' hope 13 6 6 I hope to be admitted into this glorious HIS ATTRIBUTES . 117.
... very natural for us to take de- ' light in enquiries concerning any foreign country , where we are fome time or ' other to make our abode ; and as we all ' hope 13 6 6 I hope to be admitted into this glorious HIS ATTRIBUTES . 117.
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... hope to be admitted into this glorious 6 ' place , it is both a laudable and useful ' curiofity , to get what informations we can of it , whilft we make use of Reve- ' lation for our guide . When these ever- lafting doors fhall be open ...
... hope to be admitted into this glorious 6 ' place , it is both a laudable and useful ' curiofity , to get what informations we can of it , whilft we make use of Reve- ' lation for our guide . When these ever- lafting doors fhall be open ...
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... hope , 6 6 no comfort to fupport him ! But how happy the man who searches , fighs , and thirfts after thee ! But he only is fully happy , on whom thou lifteft up the light of thy countenance , whofe tears thou haft wiped away , and who ...
... hope , 6 6 no comfort to fupport him ! But how happy the man who searches , fighs , and thirfts after thee ! But he only is fully happy , on whom thou lifteft up the light of thy countenance , whofe tears thou haft wiped away , and who ...
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Page 98 - 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 231 - 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 96 - We shall therefore utterly extinguish this melancholy thought, of our being overlooked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works...
Page 137 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 93 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other...
Page 294 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall rest in hope.
Page xvii - ... there were between God and our Saviour, in reference to his kingdom. We know not what need there was to set up a head and a chieftain, in opposition to " the prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air,
Page 252 - Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for...
Page 115 - 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 137 - 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.