Examination of the Passages in the New Testament, Quoted from the Old and Called Prophecies Concerning Jesus Christ: To which is Prefixed, An Essay on Dream, Shewing by what Operation of the Mind a Dream is Produced in Sleep, and Applying the Same to the Account of Dreams in the New Testament; with an Appendix Containing My Private Thoughts of a Future State, and Remarks on the Contradictory Doctrine in the Books of Matthew and Mark, Issues 1-9 |
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... infinite perfections of the Deity , to say he cannot know , than it is to say he cannot do certain things ; we readily concede that he cannot do that which is inconsistent with his own nature , or which involves a contradiction in ...
... infinite perfections of the Deity , to say he cannot know , than it is to say he cannot do certain things ; we readily concede that he cannot do that which is inconsistent with his own nature , or which involves a contradiction in ...
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... infinite , almighty , eter- nal , creative Being , but a master , who had established a relation between himself and his creatures ; as , without this relation , the knowledge of a God is only a barren idea , which would seem to invite ...
... infinite , almighty , eter- nal , creative Being , but a master , who had established a relation between himself and his creatures ; as , without this relation , the knowledge of a God is only a barren idea , which would seem to invite ...
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... infinite relations could only be the work of an artist infinitely wise . He made little ac- count of the proof from the succession of beings . It is commonly said , that if men , animals , vegetables , and whatever compose this world ...
... infinite relations could only be the work of an artist infinitely wise . He made little ac- count of the proof from the succession of beings . It is commonly said , that if men , animals , vegetables , and whatever compose this world ...
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... infinite . But however conclusive this argument may seem , there is somewhere or other an error in it ; and this error I take to arise from our wrong notions of omnipotence . Omnipotence cannot work contradictions , it can only effect ...
... infinite . But however conclusive this argument may seem , there is somewhere or other an error in it ; and this error I take to arise from our wrong notions of omnipotence . Omnipotence cannot work contradictions , it can only effect ...
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... infinite power and wisdom could do , was to make choice of that method , which was attended with the least and fewest ; and this not proceeding from any defect of power in the Creator ; but from that imperfec- tion which is inherent in ...
... infinite power and wisdom could do , was to make choice of that method , which was attended with the least and fewest ; and this not proceeding from any defect of power in the Creator ; but from that imperfec- tion which is inherent in ...
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Page 9 - And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: and he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, "He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 215 - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb : and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men : and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it...
Page 30 - For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven ; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble ; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 17 - He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and -the isles shall wait for his law.
Page 21 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels ? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be...
Page 21 - In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.
Page 207 - And kill them wherever ye find them, and turn them out of that whereof they have dispossessed you ; for temptation to idolatry is more grievous than slaughter : yet fight not against them in the holy temple, until they attack you therein ; but if they attack you, slay them there.
Page 49 - Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...
Page 86 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Page 26 - Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas...