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... Scripture translation , declined from the first t ; a second went home on furlough during the course of the year ; and when application was made to other two at the time when the Essays were due , it was found that pressing duties ...
... Scripture translation , declined from the first t ; a second went home on furlough during the course of the year ; and when application was made to other two at the time when the Essays were due , it was found that pressing duties ...
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... Scripture portions . It is needless to say that no other can compare with it in range or degree of distribution , and it must be remem- bered that it circulates chiefly in those countries where the greatest progress , both material and ...
... Scripture portions . It is needless to say that no other can compare with it in range or degree of distribution , and it must be remem- bered that it circulates chiefly in those countries where the greatest progress , both material and ...
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... SCRIPTURE . " The true Scriptures written by the hand of God are two- the volume of nature and the natural ideas implanted in the mind . The wisdom , power , and mercy of the Creator are written in golden letters on the universe . We ...
... SCRIPTURE . " The true Scriptures written by the hand of God are two- the volume of nature and the natural ideas implanted in the mind . The wisdom , power , and mercy of the Creator are written in golden letters on the universe . We ...
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... Scripture , " " The Scriptures , " " The Holy Scriptures . " These designations are now applied to the whole Bible . The Bible consists of two great divisions - the Old and New Testaments . The titles arose as follows . God's dealings ...
... Scripture , " " The Scriptures , " " The Holy Scriptures . " These designations are now applied to the whole Bible . The Bible consists of two great divisions - the Old and New Testaments . The titles arose as follows . God's dealings ...
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... Scriptures ? " A book for mankind , it might have been supposed would have * Garbett , " The Bible and its Critics , " p . 44 . + For further remarks on the Unity of the Bible , see the Appendix . been drawn up with scientific precision ...
... Scriptures ? " A book for mankind , it might have been supposed would have * Garbett , " The Bible and its Critics , " p . 44 . + For further remarks on the Unity of the Bible , see the Appendix . been drawn up with scientific precision ...
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Page 206 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 145 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you : searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 211 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 236 - And what shall I more say ? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah ; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets...
Page 103 - And behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed. And Jesus seeing their faith, said unto the sick of the palsy ; Son, be of good cheer ; thy sins be forgiven thee.
Page 157 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 188 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 66 - I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 51 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last - far off - at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream: but what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
Page 235 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.