Lectures on the Figurative Language of the Holy Scripture ...: To which are Added, Four Lectures on the Relation Between the Old and New Testaments, as it is Set Forth in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Also, a Single Lecture on the Natural Evidences of Christianity ... |
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... better Jews than the Jews themselves for , adds the apostle , he is not a Jew which is one outwardly , neither is that circumcision , which is outward in the flesh ; but he is a Jew which is one inwardly , and circumcision ( as Moses ...
... better Jews than the Jews themselves for , adds the apostle , he is not a Jew which is one outwardly , neither is that circumcision , which is outward in the flesh ; but he is a Jew which is one inwardly , and circumcision ( as Moses ...
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... better rule to direct us than they have . If we who have the light , walk as they do who are in darkness , the same dark- ness will assuredly come upon us ; we shall understand nothing , we shall care for nothing ; the light that is ...
... better rule to direct us than they have . If we who have the light , walk as they do who are in darkness , the same dark- ness will assuredly come upon us ; we shall understand nothing , we shall care for nothing ; the light that is ...
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... better would it be not to have had the light , than to be answerable for the guilt of having extinguished it and turned it into darkness . This is the moral doctrine to be derived from the usage of light in the sacred language . Here I ...
... better would it be not to have had the light , than to be answerable for the guilt of having extinguished it and turned it into darkness . This is the moral doctrine to be derived from the usage of light in the sacred language . Here I ...
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... better than a vain shadow : but to those who take it rightly , it is a shadow of heavenly things ; a school in which God is a teacher ; and all the objects of sense in heaven and earth , and under the earth , are as the letters of an ...
... better than a vain shadow : but to those who take it rightly , it is a shadow of heavenly things ; a school in which God is a teacher ; and all the objects of sense in heaven and earth , and under the earth , are as the letters of an ...
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... better things than that of Abel . — Every Christian is to conceive what his own state is by looking back to the privileges of the church of old . He is come to Mount Zion , to a situ- ation exalted above the world ; a mountain chosen ...
... better things than that of Abel . — Every Christian is to conceive what his own state is by looking back to the privileges of the church of old . He is come to Mount Zion , to a situ- ation exalted above the world ; a mountain chosen ...
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Page 304 - Samuel, and of the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 316 - Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple ? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar ? Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel.
Page 39 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Page 276 - For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high GOD, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him. To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all ; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace.
Page 85 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God ; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Page 170 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord ; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 122 - Spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison ; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Page 127 - Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot ; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded...
Page 294 - For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead : otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Page 16 - But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.