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... easily apprehend , that it is a matter of the highest im- portance , being indeed no other than the great foundation of all our eternal hopes . While so many are daily attempting to destroy this founda tion , it is possible , that those ...
... easily apprehend , that it is a matter of the highest im- portance , being indeed no other than the great foundation of all our eternal hopes . While so many are daily attempting to destroy this founda tion , it is possible , that those ...
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... the Deity ; a thought which might farther be con- firmed by some remarkable passages of heathen writers , which I have not now time particularly to mention . 3. We may easily conclude , " that if a 18 ON THE EVIDENCES.
... the Deity ; a thought which might farther be con- firmed by some remarkable passages of heathen writers , which I have not now time particularly to mention . 3. We may easily conclude , " that if a 18 ON THE EVIDENCES.
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Philip Doddridge. 3. We may easily conclude , " that if a revela tion were given , it would be introduced and transmitted in such a manner , as Christianity is said to have been . " It is exceeding probable , for instance , that it ...
Philip Doddridge. 3. We may easily conclude , " that if a revela tion were given , it would be introduced and transmitted in such a manner , as Christianity is said to have been . " It is exceeding probable , for instance , that it ...
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... easily conclude , that all these parti- culars must be contained in it ; and that , upori the whole , it should appear calculated to form men's minds to a proper temper , rather than to amuse them with curious speculations . It might ...
... easily conclude , that all these parti- culars must be contained in it ; and that , upori the whole , it should appear calculated to form men's minds to a proper temper , rather than to amuse them with curious speculations . It might ...
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... easily , be proved to be authentic . And here I will not argue merely from the piety of the primitive Christians , and the heroic resolution with which they chose to endure the greatest extremities , rather than they would deliver up ...
... easily , be proved to be authentic . And here I will not argue merely from the piety of the primitive Christians , and the heroic resolution with which they chose to endure the greatest extremities , rather than they would deliver up ...
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Page 177 - We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Page 120 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will.
Page 163 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 161 - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of Me: and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with Me from the beginning.
Page 116 - Through the tender mer'cy of our God : whereby the day-spring from' on high hath visited us ; To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in' the shadow of death : and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Page 162 - Peace be unto you ; as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them; Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 160 - I will pray the Father, and he shall send you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever...
Page 155 - And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety that the Lord hath sent his angel and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
Page 134 - INSPIRATION, the conveying of certain extraordinary and supernatural notions or motions into the soul ; or it denotes any supernatural influence of God upon the mind of a rational creature, whereby he is formed to any degree of intellectual improvement, to which he could not, or would not, in fact, have attained in his present circumstances in a natural way.
Page 126 - ... a savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death.