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... death , not only do the same , but have pleasure in them that do them . " * It was such infidelity as this , my esteemed reader , which prepared the minds of mankind for all the grossness and all the absurdity of heathenism ; it was ...
... death , not only do the same , but have pleasure in them that do them . " * It was such infidelity as this , my esteemed reader , which prepared the minds of mankind for all the grossness and all the absurdity of heathenism ; it was ...
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... death of one million of French Protestants , speaks of them as " weak and obstinate men . " As these Protest- ants , not being infidels , were stripped of all claim to philosophy , we suppose it was a small matter to murder such vulgar ...
... death of one million of French Protestants , speaks of them as " weak and obstinate men . " As these Protest- ants , not being infidels , were stripped of all claim to philosophy , we suppose it was a small matter to murder such vulgar ...
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... of crimes , was publicly ridiculed , and the people were taught to believe that death was an everlasting sleep . * Judge Rush , of the United States . 66 Temple of Rea- They ordered the words son ' 30 A PORTRAITURE OF.
... of crimes , was publicly ridiculed , and the people were taught to believe that death was an everlasting sleep . * Judge Rush , of the United States . 66 Temple of Rea- They ordered the words son ' 30 A PORTRAITURE OF.
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... death - professing no rule of morals but his feelings , abus- ing the finest powers to the dissemination , not merely of * The Royal Society . Published in 1685 . + President of the Royal Society . Published in 1690 . how would it cause ...
... death - professing no rule of morals but his feelings , abus- ing the finest powers to the dissemination , not merely of * The Royal Society . Published in 1685 . + President of the Royal Society . Published in 1690 . how would it cause ...
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... you in a dying hour ? Multitudes of infidels have found their creed , at death , insufficient to meet the awful catastrophe . Not a single instance can be produced , in which a believer in Revelation was 44 A PORTRAITURE OF.
... you in a dying hour ? Multitudes of infidels have found their creed , at death , insufficient to meet the awful catastrophe . Not a single instance can be produced , in which a believer in Revelation was 44 A PORTRAITURE OF.
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Page 262 - Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
Page 120 - Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole, be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Page 232 - For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me : for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Page 243 - 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 244 - Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth : for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak : and he will shew you things to come.
Page 231 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 239 - And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth ? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I, the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Page 249 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 243 - And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 119 - Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works