The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian RevelationClarendon Press, 1801 - 354 páginas |
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... observe , that the ordinary practice of magic in thofe times , with the many pretended prodigies , divi- nations , apparitions , and local miracles among the Heathens , made them lefs attentive to fuch news from Judæa , till they had ...
... observe , that the ordinary practice of magic in thofe times , with the many pretended prodigies , divi- nations , apparitions , and local miracles among the Heathens , made them lefs attentive to fuch news from Judæa , till they had ...
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... observe , that whoever reads the account given us by Jofephus , without knowing his character , and com- pares it with what our Saviour foretold , would think the hiftorian had been a Christian , and that he had nothing else in view ...
... observe , that whoever reads the account given us by Jofephus , without knowing his character , and com- pares it with what our Saviour foretold , would think the hiftorian had been a Christian , and that he had nothing else in view ...
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... observe , that the Pagan converts , of whom I am now speaking , mention this great reform- ation of those who had been the greatest finners , with that fudden and surprising change which it made in the lives of the most profligate , as ...
... observe , that the Pagan converts , of whom I am now speaking , mention this great reform- ation of those who had been the greatest finners , with that fudden and surprising change which it made in the lives of the most profligate , as ...
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... observation ? What is the reafon Homer's and Virgil's heroes do not form a refolution , or ftrike a blow , without the conduct and direction of fome Deity ? Doubtless , because the Poets efteemed it the greatest honour to be favoured by ...
... observation ? What is the reafon Homer's and Virgil's heroes do not form a refolution , or ftrike a blow , without the conduct and direction of fome Deity ? Doubtless , because the Poets efteemed it the greatest honour to be favoured by ...
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... receives at pre- fent , and the happiness which he promises himself from it hereafter , will both dispose him very powerfully to give credit to it , according according to the ordinary observation , that we are easy AND INFIDELITY . 253.
... receives at pre- fent , and the happiness which he promises himself from it hereafter , will both dispose him very powerfully to give credit to it , according according to the ordinary observation , that we are easy AND INFIDELITY . 253.
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Página 98 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Página 231 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Página 96 - We shall therefore utterly extinguish this melancholy thought, of our being overlooked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works...
Página 137 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Página 93 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other...
Página 294 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall rest in hope.
Página xvii - ... there were between God and our Saviour, in reference to his kingdom. We know not what need there was to set up a head and a chieftain, in opposition to " the prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air,
Página 252 - Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for...
Página 115 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Página 137 - THOSE who were skilful in anatomy, among the ancients, concluded, from the outward and inward make of an human body, that it was the work of a Being transcendently wise and powerful. As the world grew more enlightened in this art, their discoveries gave them fresh opportunities of admiring the conduct of Providence in the formation of a human body.