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... truths of all religion . We , on the other hand , absolutely deny both pro- positions ; and it remains that we demonstrate their fallacy . To overthrow the notion of an innate sense of religion , it is sufficient to observe , that ...
... truths of all religion . We , on the other hand , absolutely deny both pro- positions ; and it remains that we demonstrate their fallacy . To overthrow the notion of an innate sense of religion , it is sufficient to observe , that ...
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... truth are so much greater than those which may be sufficient to comprehend that truth , and feel the force of the evidence on which it rests , when fairly stated , that for one man whose intellectual powers are adequate to the former ...
... truth are so much greater than those which may be sufficient to comprehend that truth , and feel the force of the evidence on which it rests , when fairly stated , that for one man whose intellectual powers are adequate to the former ...
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... 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 longings after truth ; and what Socrates , Plato , and Cicero ...
... 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 longings after truth ; and what Socrates , Plato , and Cicero ...
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... truth , from which , as from a centre , knowledge would be gradually dif- fused , till , all things being prepared for the change , their particular election would cease , and the whole human race be admitted to a participation in the ...
... truth , from which , as from a centre , knowledge would be gradually dif- fused , till , all things being prepared for the change , their particular election would cease , and the whole human race be admitted to a participation in the ...
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... truth . It is of the utmost importance , therefore , to ascertain their authenticity and Divine origin , that being ... truths , or that the books were com- piled in some generation posterior to the epoch of the exode , and imposed as ...
... truth . It is of the utmost importance , therefore , to ascertain their authenticity and Divine origin , that being ... truths , or that the books were com- piled in some generation posterior to the epoch of the exode , and imposed as ...
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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.