The Evidences of Christianity: Stated in a Popular and Practical Manner, in a Course of Lectures, on the Authenticity, Credibility, Divine Authority, and Inspiration of the New Testament, Delivered in the Parish Church of St. Mary, Islington, Volume 1Crocker and Brewster, 1833 - Apologetics |
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... DIRECT PROOF OF THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT . - ACTS xxvi . 26 ......... 80 The testimony to our sacred books can be traced up from the present time to the days of the apostles ...... The sacred canon was settled with care and ...
... DIRECT PROOF OF THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT . - ACTS xxvi . 26 ......... 80 The testimony to our sacred books can be traced up from the present time to the days of the apostles ...... The sacred canon was settled with care and ...
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... direct pandering to the lowest passions of the common people , which is there exhibited , and which leaves the French school of infidelity far behind it , -for it wants the talent , the wit and elegance of style , the occasional ...
... direct pandering to the lowest passions of the common people , which is there exhibited , and which leaves the French school of infidelity far behind it , -for it wants the talent , the wit and elegance of style , the occasional ...
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... direct arguments which may strengthen his conviction of the truth of the scriptures , I beg him to pause and consider the absolute and indispensable necessity of a divine revelation , as it appears from the state of man- kind in all ...
... direct arguments which may strengthen his conviction of the truth of the scriptures , I beg him to pause and consider the absolute and indispensable necessity of a divine revelation , as it appears from the state of man- kind in all ...
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... direct proofs will thus have no antecedent im- probability to overcome . The religion will stand clear of any previous imputation of being unnecessary or unlikely . * It will come to us with all that strong presumption in its favor ...
... direct proofs will thus have no antecedent im- probability to overcome . The religion will stand clear of any previous imputation of being unnecessary or unlikely . * It will come to us with all that strong presumption in its favor ...
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... direct mankind . Few of them attempted to bring down ethics to human life and practice . They commonly engaged in endless disquisitions and disputes on the eternity of matter , the soul of the world , and other fruitless topics . They ...
... direct mankind . Few of them attempted to bring down ethics to human life and practice . They commonly engaged in endless disquisitions and disputes on the eternity of matter , the soul of the world , and other fruitless topics . They ...
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Page 263 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Page 272 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 264 - 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: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 203 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Page 200 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 197 - And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
Page 257 - Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
Page 104 - Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the word...
Page 263 - And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say : for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Page 202 - And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.