Sermons, on a Number of Connected Subjects: In which an Attempt is Made to Explain the Leading Principles of Revealed Religion; to Show Their Consistency, Reasonableness and Importance; and to Guard Them Against Dangerous Misconstructions and False Inferences, and Against the Specious Objections of Unbelievers |
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... Jews require a sign , and the Greeks seek after wisdom : But we preach Christ crucified , unto the Jews a stumbling - block , and to the Greeks foolishness . " Nothing could more stum- ble and offend the former , than telling them of ...
... Jews require a sign , and the Greeks seek after wisdom : But we preach Christ crucified , unto the Jews a stumbling - block , and to the Greeks foolishness . " Nothing could more stum- ble and offend the former , than telling them of ...
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... Jew : and that it will be so after all that can be said , until men are made to attend with some seriousness , and their minds are opened to receive conviction . They may be told that all their inability consists in the want of a dispo ...
... Jew : and that it will be so after all that can be said , until men are made to attend with some seriousness , and their minds are opened to receive conviction . They may be told that all their inability consists in the want of a dispo ...
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... Jewish christians still so far retained their national prejudices , that they would not pray for the heathen ... Jew , Barbarian , Cyth- ian , bond or free . And therefore that they ought to pray for all men , without any of these ...
... Jewish christians still so far retained their national prejudices , that they would not pray for the heathen ... Jew , Barbarian , Cyth- ian , bond or free . And therefore that they ought to pray for all men , without any of these ...
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... Jews had raised expecta- tions of their promised glorious Messiah ; yet , on his actual appearance , they received him not . proved as was foretold in Isaiah : " When we shall see him , there is no beauty that we should desire him : He ...
... Jews had raised expecta- tions of their promised glorious Messiah ; yet , on his actual appearance , they received him not . proved as was foretold in Isaiah : " When we shall see him , there is no beauty that we should desire him : He ...
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... Jews , " Him , being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore - knowledge of God , ye have taken , and with wicked hands have cruci- fied and slain . " Thus it is evident , that by light and darkness , peace and evil , we are to ...
... Jews , " Him , being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore - knowledge of God , ye have taken , and with wicked hands have cruci- fied and slain . " Thus it is evident , that by light and darkness , peace and evil , we are to ...
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Page 302 - The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Page 390 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open unto us;' and he shall answer and say unto you, 'I know ye not whence ye are.
Page 394 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding — if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures, — then shall thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God..
Page 401 - Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Page 53 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 192 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 74 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 302 - And his name, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know ; yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. And now, brethren, I wot, that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
Page 114 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil?
Page 301 - And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; , 3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.