On Truth and Error: Thoughts, in Prose and Verse, on the Principles of Truth, and the Causes and Effects of Error |
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... sure the friendly smiting of the righteous will be much more penetrating , much less sparing , than any blow intended to mortify , or given in the sad spirit of exultation . If you are my friend , as I profess to be yours , spare not ...
... sure the friendly smiting of the righteous will be much more penetrating , much less sparing , than any blow intended to mortify , or given in the sad spirit of exultation . If you are my friend , as I profess to be yours , spare not ...
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... sure — a thousand times more sure— -that the truth is in that book , than I did before I saw that this was a shameful , lazy , dishonouring way to receive it . I am ten thousand times more certain that God , the Almighty , Allwise ...
... sure — a thousand times more sure— -that the truth is in that book , than I did before I saw that this was a shameful , lazy , dishonouring way to receive it . I am ten thousand times more certain that God , the Almighty , Allwise ...
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... higher , infinitely higher , ground to stand on than the united opinions of millions of good men ; even if any one could be sure these all agreed , both that the whole was correct in the copies we have of the originals , 8 BIBLE AUTHORITY .
... higher , infinitely higher , ground to stand on than the united opinions of millions of good men ; even if any one could be sure these all agreed , both that the whole was correct in the copies we have of the originals , 8 BIBLE AUTHORITY .
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... sure before he takes the second , he will go on safely and surely , proving all things , and what he thus proves to be good he will hold fast . Some persons argue that God would not suffer a book to pass for his , among millions of ...
... sure before he takes the second , he will go on safely and surely , proving all things , and what he thus proves to be good he will hold fast . Some persons argue that God would not suffer a book to pass for his , among millions of ...
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... sure that in doing so I do not make out a false doctrine . But unless I see and feel that the words have fairly that meaning , I do foolishly to try to force them ; for they will not be forced , I may say , and in a way persuade myself ...
... sure that in doing so I do not make out a false doctrine . But unless I see and feel that the words have fairly that meaning , I do foolishly to try to force them ; for they will not be forced , I may say , and in a way persuade myself ...
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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...