 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1783 - 524 pages
...for its ufefulnefs and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. ' It was univerfally believed, that the end of the world and the kingdom...The near approach of this wonderful event had been predifted by the apoftles ; the tradition of it it was preferved by their earlieft difciples, and c... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1787 - 502 pages
...refpect for its ufefuloefs and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was univerfally believed, that the end of the world and the kingdom...at hand. The near approach of this wonderful event hid been predicted by the apoftles; the tradition of it was preferved by their earlieft difciples,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1792 - 612 pages
...it had witnefled his fécond appearance, it was univerfally believed, in the time of the apoftles, that the end of the world and the kingdom of heaven were at hand : but that the records of hiilory do not authorize us to conclude, that the prediction bas yet been... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1792 - 380 pages
...intimates, it is as vain for us to conjecture, as difficult for him. to declare. " It was univerfally believed that the end " of the world and the kingdom of heaven " were '** were at hand." This aflertion is as deftitute of proof, as his affirmation " that the near " approach... | |
 | 1793 - 752 pages
...fecond coming. This prediction, they contended, had excited an univerfal belief in the apoftolic age, that the end of the world, and the kingdom of Heaven were at hand i but that we have no evidence from hiftory, of its having been accomplif)i«d to this day. Mr. Nifbett... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1802 - 610 pages
...asserted that " the near approach of the end of the world had been predicted by the apostles, and that those who understood, in their literal sense, the...discourses of Christ himself, were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the son of man in the clouds before that generation was totally extinguished,... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pages
...ulefulncfs and antiquity, has not been found "• to be agreeable to experience. It was univerfally believed " that the end of the world and the kingdom of heaven were ae hand. The near approach of this wonderful event had been predicted by the Apoftles ; the tradition... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 530 pages
...opinion, which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed,...it was preserved by their earliest disciples, and CHAP. those who understood in their literal sense the xv. discourses of Christ himself, were obliged... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1808 - 428 pages
...seizes every opportunity of sjlently aiming a blow against the evidences of its divine original. ' Those who understood in their literal sense the discourses of Christ himself ' were,' says Mr. Gibbon, ' OBLIGED to expect the second and glorious coming of the son of man in the clouds,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1810 - 462 pages
...opinion, which however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed, that the end of the world, aiid the kingdom of Heaven, were at hand. The near approach of this wonderful event had been predicted... | |
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In the primitive church the influence of truth was very powerfully strengthened by an opinion which, however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, has not been found agreeable to experience. It was universally believed that the end... 
