Two Apologies: One for Christianity in a Series of Letters Addressed to Edward Gibbon, the Other for the Bible, in Answer to Thomas Paine |
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... established religions of the earth , you rightly answer , by the evidence of the doctrine itself , and the ruling providence of its Author . But afterwards , in assigning for this astonishing event five secondary causes , derived from ...
... established religions of the earth , you rightly answer , by the evidence of the doctrine itself , and the ruling providence of its Author . But afterwards , in assigning for this astonishing event five secondary causes , derived from ...
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... established religion appear to you to be the most likely method of conciliating to another faith those who profess it ? The Christians , you contend , could neither mix with the Heathens in their convivial entertainments , nor partake ...
... established religion appear to you to be the most likely method of conciliating to another faith those who profess it ? The Christians , you contend , could neither mix with the Heathens in their convivial entertainments , nor partake ...
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... establish itself in China and the East , from this circumstance , that it prohibits a plurality of wives . How then could it have been possible for it to have pervaded the voluptuous capital , and traversed the utmost limits of the ...
... establish itself in China and the East , from this circumstance , that it prohibits a plurality of wives . How then could it have been possible for it to have pervaded the voluptuous capital , and traversed the utmost limits of the ...
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... established it among Pagans ? I beg I may not be misunderstood ; I do not take upon me to say , that all the miracles recorded in the history of the primitive church after the aposto- lical age , were forgeries ; it is foreign to the ...
... established it among Pagans ? I beg I may not be misunderstood ; I do not take upon me to say , that all the miracles recorded in the history of the primitive church after the aposto- lical age , were forgeries ; it is foreign to the ...
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... establish their credibility . I beg pardon for styling their reasoning , prejudice ; I have no design to give offence by that word ; they may , with equal right , throw the same imputation upon mine ; and I think it just as illiberal in ...
... establish their credibility . I beg pardon for styling their reasoning , prejudice ; I have no design to give offence by that word ; they may , with equal right , throw the same imputation upon mine ; and I think it just as illiberal in ...
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Page 33 - And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep : for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Page 244 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises, whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 225 - And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
Page 37 - Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Page 80 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Page 22 - Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah : Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt ; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD.
Page 333 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Page 368 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
Page 63 - For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Page 224 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods...