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... Error is oft more specious than truth . Error loves the maxims of the vapid philosophy of the day . Error skims the surface ; it is the easy acquisition of labor- hating , thoughtless souls : the pearl of truth of purest ray serene A ...
... Error is oft more specious than truth . Error loves the maxims of the vapid philosophy of the day . Error skims the surface ; it is the easy acquisition of labor- hating , thoughtless souls : the pearl of truth of purest ray serene A ...
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... error , and fraud . Long would be the list of those who , from one or other of these motives , claimed inspiration from God . It would suffice to mention Mohammed and the founder of Mormonism , to specify the weakness of this criterion ...
... error , and fraud . Long would be the list of those who , from one or other of these motives , claimed inspiration from God . It would suffice to mention Mohammed and the founder of Mormonism , to specify the weakness of this criterion ...
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... error . Luther and his followers place their criterion in the effect produced in one's soul by the reading of the book . Food , they say , is judged by its savour ; so , also , Holy Scripture , by the soul's taste . That which feeds the ...
... error . Luther and his followers place their criterion in the effect produced in one's soul by the reading of the book . Food , they say , is judged by its savour ; so , also , Holy Scripture , by the soul's taste . That which feeds the ...
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... error . " * Burnett also , in his Exposition of the XXXIX Articles , speaks thus of this subjective criterion : " This is only an argument to him that feels it , if it is one at all ; and , therefore , it proves nothing to another ...
... error . " * Burnett also , in his Exposition of the XXXIX Articles , speaks thus of this subjective criterion : " This is only an argument to him that feels it , if it is one at all ; and , therefore , it proves nothing to another ...
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... errors , and they did not succeed in doing so . Even if they could have done so , they had a motive against the truth . It was to their advan- tage to employ false premises in order to make a popular argument . They even went beyond ...
... errors , and they did not succeed in doing so . Even if they could have done so , they had a motive against the truth . It was to their advan- tage to employ false premises in order to make a popular argument . They even went beyond ...
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Page 283 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 524 - And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
Page 45 - And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord.
Page 330 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he *which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 308 - But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Page 417 - And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? 27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
Page 54 - This interval of time was little short of three thousand years ; but as to the time from the death of Moses to the reign of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, who reigned after Xerxes, the prophets who were after Moses wrote down what was done in their times in thirteen books. The remaining four books contain hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life.
Page 283 - And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans ; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea...
Page 220 - And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us: but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out?
Page 382 - So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.