The Reason of Faith: Or, an Answer Unto that Enquiry, Wherefore We Believe the Scripture to be the Word of God? With The Causes and Nature of that Faith Wherewith We Do So. Wherein The Grounds Whereon the Holy Scripture is Believed to be the Word of God with Faith Divine and Supernatural, are Declared and Vindicated. Together with the Causes, Ways and Means, of Understanding the Mind of God as Revealed in His Word, with Assurance Therein: And, a Declaration of the Perspicuity of the Scriptures, with the External Means of the Interpretation of Them |
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... LORD'S Supper , under the Chriftian difpenfation . THE two firft of these RULES , above - mentioned , make it impoffible , that the records of the Old or New Teftaments , could be impositions on mankind , their eyes , and ears , being ...
... LORD'S Supper , under the Chriftian difpenfation . THE two firft of these RULES , above - mentioned , make it impoffible , that the records of the Old or New Teftaments , could be impositions on mankind , their eyes , and ears , being ...
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... Lord , Gen. xviii . 19. And other inftances of the like kind may be given : Gen. iv . 26. chap . v . 28. And this courfe did God continue a long time , even from the first promise to the giving of the law , before any revelations were ...
... Lord , Gen. xviii . 19. And other inftances of the like kind may be given : Gen. iv . 26. chap . v . 28. And this courfe did God continue a long time , even from the first promise to the giving of the law , before any revelations were ...
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... Lord , as did Abraham . The world perished not for want of fufficient revelation of the mind of God at any time . Indeed when we go to confider those divine inftructions which are upon record , that God . granted unto them , we are ...
... Lord , as did Abraham . The world perished not for want of fufficient revelation of the mind of God at any time . Indeed when we go to confider those divine inftructions which are upon record , that God . granted unto them , we are ...
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... Lord Christ , they were not enlightened by them , until he expounded them unto them , Luke xxiv . 27 , 45. As we have the fame inftance in the eunuch and Philip , Acts viii . 31 , 35 , 36 . To this very day the nation of the Jews have ...
... Lord Christ , they were not enlightened by them , until he expounded them unto them , Luke xxiv . 27 , 45. As we have the fame inftance in the eunuch and Philip , Acts viii . 31 , 35 , 36 . To this very day the nation of the Jews have ...
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... Lord your God , and you fhall be established ; " or that faith which is in God and his word is fixed on truth , or is infallible . Hence the enquiry in this case is , what is the reason why we believe any thing with this faith divine or ...
... Lord your God , and you fhall be established ; " or that faith which is in God and his word is fixed on truth , or is infallible . Hence the enquiry in this case is , what is the reason why we believe any thing with this faith divine or ...
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Page 180 - But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Page 199 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 194 - Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Page 107 - For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
Page 103 - Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God...
Page 231 - It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Page 108 - But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith : 27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever.
Page 105 - And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Page 107 - Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in the old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy ghost.
Page 129 - But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all : and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.