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... , but dreadful punishment , of their apostacy from the faith . And I am persuaded , that those who do indeed wish well to the cause of public virtue , Rom . i . 28 . as every true Christian most certainly does , can- not 6 ON THE EVIDENCES.
... , but dreadful punishment , of their apostacy from the faith . And I am persuaded , that those who do indeed wish well to the cause of public virtue , Rom . i . 28 . as every true Christian most certainly does , can- not 6 ON THE EVIDENCES.
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Philip Doddridge. as every true Christian most certainly does , can- not serve it more effectually , than by endeavour- ing to establish men in the belief of the gospel in general , and to affect their hearts with its most distinguishing ...
Philip Doddridge. as every true Christian most certainly does , can- not serve it more effectually , than by endeavour- ing to establish men in the belief of the gospel in general , and to affect their hearts with its most distinguishing ...
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... true Christian , as to have felt the transforming power of the gospel on his own soul . As that illiterate man , whose eyes were miraculously opened by Christ , when he was questioned by the Jewish Sanhedrim , who en deavoured , with ...
... true Christian , as to have felt the transforming power of the gospel on his own soul . As that illiterate man , whose eyes were miraculously opened by Christ , when he was questioned by the Jewish Sanhedrim , who en deavoured , with ...
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... true in theory , or useful in practice . But this is not all ; for , in the present case , it is evident , that the first teachers of Christianity professed that they were taught it by divine revelation , and that they were empowered by ...
... true in theory , or useful in practice . But this is not all ; for , in the present case , it is evident , that the first teachers of Christianity professed that they were taught it by divine revelation , and that they were empowered by ...
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... true , and that the reli- gion they teach , brings along with it such evi- dences of a divine authority , as may most justly recommend it to our acceptance . Each of these heads might furnish out mat- ter for many volumes ; but it is my ...
... true , and that the reli- gion they teach , brings along with it such evi- dences of a divine authority , as may most justly recommend it to our acceptance . Each of these heads might furnish out mat- ter for many volumes ; but it is my ...
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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.