The Impossibility of Imposture in the Miracles of Scripture: A Lecture on the External Evidences of Divine Revelation Delivered at Silver Street Chapel, Thursday, Feb. 17, 1831, with the Discussion which Followed |
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... False pre- tences may be easily believed , but they are also easily detected , and exposed to ridicule , contempt and abhorrence . Of this we may bring many proofs . It was for some time supposed that Ann Moor of Tutbury lived without ...
... False pre- tences may be easily believed , but they are also easily detected , and exposed to ridicule , contempt and abhorrence . Of this we may bring many proofs . It was for some time supposed that Ann Moor of Tutbury lived without ...
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... false story , we challenge you to do the same . Neither work miracles , nor make men believe that you did ; but spread the report that you did , and commit it to writing , and make the world believe it , and men die for it , if you can ...
... false story , we challenge you to do the same . Neither work miracles , nor make men believe that you did ; but spread the report that you did , and commit it to writing , and make the world believe it , and men die for it , if you can ...
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... false ; this is , as if I should call a servant to confirm what I assert , and when he comes , he says it is a lie . " But Christians are too much ac- customed to investigate truth and distinguish it from falsehood , to be put off with ...
... false ; this is , as if I should call a servant to confirm what I assert , and when he comes , he says it is a lie . " But Christians are too much ac- customed to investigate truth and distinguish it from falsehood , to be put off with ...
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... false . Here , then , you cannot substitute a joke for an argument . All those among the Jews , that think at all , know well , that there is no answering the evidences of their religion , and that their sacred writings are too well ...
... false . Here , then , you cannot substitute a joke for an argument . All those among the Jews , that think at all , know well , that there is no answering the evidences of their religion , and that their sacred writings are too well ...
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... false notion of the existence both of the king and of the tree ? But who does not see that such fancies as these will never be suffered by men of sense or veracity , to contradict the testimony of history and reason . The Jews , the ...
... false notion of the existence both of the king and of the tree ? But who does not see that such fancies as these will never be suffered by men of sense or veracity , to contradict the testimony of history and reason . The Jews , the ...
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Page 116 - And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you, that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : 16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 122 - JTTL.ND in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Page 55 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 234 - Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 32 - Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
Page 116 - And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked : 9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
Page 124 - Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone : if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
Page 116 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Page 3 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 116 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.