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... nature and plan of this book you will find it imperfect , with many omissions and some repetitions . Its design is to set you thinking , not to supply the place of thought and investigation . It may be that you have already thought and ...
... nature and plan of this book you will find it imperfect , with many omissions and some repetitions . Its design is to set you thinking , not to supply the place of thought and investigation . It may be that you have already thought and ...
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... nature , of proof ; so as to be then a real test , or means of proving the other ? That the foremost position must , of necessity , be given to the " trueness " of the matter , will be evident . For if we try to put the " Word of God ...
... nature , of proof ; so as to be then a real test , or means of proving the other ? That the foremost position must , of necessity , be given to the " trueness " of the matter , will be evident . For if we try to put the " Word of God ...
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... this Word God's Word ? " - that the former question admits , in its nature , of direct proof ; the latter does not , but its answer depends on the former . The fact of anything being truly God's Word does not BIBLE AUTHORITY . 7.
... this Word God's Word ? " - that the former question admits , in its nature , of direct proof ; the latter does not , but its answer depends on the former . The fact of anything being truly God's Word does not BIBLE AUTHORITY . 7.
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... nature is , at least , very slow to discover , if indeed it would ever discover this , without HIS teaching , who knows what is in man . Those who are in earnest to prove all things , that they may hold fast that which is good , are ...
... nature is , at least , very slow to discover , if indeed it would ever discover this , without HIS teaching , who knows what is in man . Those who are in earnest to prove all things , that they may hold fast that which is good , are ...
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... natural drawing of our inclinations , and by the ideas we have been taught in our infancy , which ( whe- ther right or wrong ) ought not to prevail , so as to pre- judice our judgment , when we go about to prove any- thing . Hence , we ...
... natural drawing of our inclinations , and by the ideas we have been taught in our infancy , which ( whe- ther right or wrong ) ought not to prevail , so as to pre- judice our judgment , when we go about to prove any- thing . Hence , we ...
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Page 378 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Page 465 - Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Page 467 - Either make the tree good, and his fruit good ; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Page 119 - And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts : for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.
Page 266 - The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them...
Page 296 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Page 85 - For we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Page 311 - I send thee, to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Page 263 - We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments...
Page 119 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...