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... asserting . Let any man turn to the writings of the wisest and best of the heathen philosophers , and he will find there proofs innumerable that the statement which we have hazarded has not been rashly advanced , while a consideration ...
... asserting . Let any man turn to the writings of the wisest and best of the heathen philosophers , and he will find there proofs innumerable that the statement which we have hazarded has not been rashly advanced , while a consideration ...
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... assert either that man is naturally endowed with an innate sense of Deity , which leads him to worship and obey his Maker ; or that human reason is , of itself , and unas- sisted by a higher power , capable of discovering the great and ...
... assert either that man is naturally endowed with an innate sense of Deity , which leads him to worship and obey his Maker ; or that human reason is , of itself , and unas- sisted by a higher power , capable of discovering the great and ...
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... assert that , to discover many , and these the most important truths in religion , human reason is totally incompetent . Socrates , Plato , and Cicero have each confessed that there was need for some Divine teacher to appease their ...
... assert that , to discover many , and these the most important truths in religion , human reason is totally incompetent . Socrates , Plato , and Cicero have each confessed that there was need for some Divine teacher to appease their ...
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... asserting , which authorizes us to declare that the author of the Iliad was not contemporary with the author of the orations of Demosthenes , because the orations of Demosthenes differ not more widely in style and idiom from the Iliad ...
... asserting , which authorizes us to declare that the author of the Iliad was not contemporary with the author of the orations of Demosthenes , because the orations of Demosthenes differ not more widely in style and idiom from the Iliad ...
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... asserted in the books of which Moses claims to be the writer , that they were delivered by him to the congregation , and carefully preserved from his day in the ark of the covenant ; an ark which , upor the supposition stated above ...
... asserted in the books of which Moses claims to be the writer , that they were delivered by him to the congregation , and carefully preserved from his day in the ark of the covenant ; an ark which , upor the supposition stated above ...
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Page 178 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 71 - But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark...
Page 50 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 52 - And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Page 151 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed...
Page 273 - Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel : and there was no strength in him ; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
Page 167 - And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Page 278 - ... in their schools of philosophy. Accordingly there was a Presumption against chnst the Gospel in its first announcement. A Jewish peasant claimed to be the promised Deliverer, in whom all the nations of the Earth were to be blessed.
Page 268 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 268 - And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur that is over against Egypt. And he took Agag, the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings and the lambs and all that was good and would not utterly destroy them. But every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.