The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Theological worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 - Theology, Doctrinal |
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... he not speak parables ? 260 ܕܟ - . ? r rvSERMON XI . Prophetic characters of Antichrist . LUKE xii . 56 . How is it , that ye do not discern this time ? 286 1 SERMON XII . Uses of this Inquiry into the PropheciesConclusion CONTENTS .
... he not speak parables ? 260 ܕܟ - . ? r rvSERMON XI . Prophetic characters of Antichrist . LUKE xii . 56 . How is it , that ye do not discern this time ? 286 1 SERMON XII . Uses of this Inquiry into the PropheciesConclusion CONTENTS .
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... character , and entertain very different notions about the exercise of this power from what the Scriptures give them of it . Nay it is no wonder 1 . SERMON that they should even treat the subject в 2 FALSE IDEAS OF PROPHECY . 8.
... character , and entertain very different notions about the exercise of this power from what the Scriptures give them of it . Nay it is no wonder 1 . SERMON that they should even treat the subject в 2 FALSE IDEAS OF PROPHECY . 8.
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... character of a prophet ; and as most worthy , in our conceptions , of the divine attention and regard , But how are we surprized to find that this astonishing power , the most signal gift of Heaven to mankind , hath , in its immediate ...
... character of a prophet ; and as most worthy , in our conceptions , of the divine attention and regard , But how are we surprized to find that this astonishing power , the most signal gift of Heaven to mankind , hath , in its immediate ...
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... character of divine prophecy , when they know not the reason , most undoubtedly not all the reasons , why it is given , and have even no right to demand , that it should be given at all ? " Till these , and other questions of the like ...
... character of divine prophecy , when they know not the reason , most undoubtedly not all the reasons , why it is given , and have even no right to demand , that it should be given at all ? " Till these , and other questions of the like ...
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... character , and accomplishment of the prophetic scriptures . All the rest is idle cavil , and miserable presumption ; equally repugnant to the clearest dictates of right reason , and to that respect which every serious man will think ...
... character , and accomplishment of the prophetic scriptures . All the rest is idle cavil , and miserable presumption ; equally repugnant to the clearest dictates of right reason , and to that respect which every serious man will think ...
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Page 105 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Page 164 - Behold my servant, whom I have chosen ; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased : I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Page 73 - I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen : but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
Page 30 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 154 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a Light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 162 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 160 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt...
Page 143 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them : for I am the LORD their God.
Page 285 - I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots; and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Page 177 - And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.