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... ancient systems ! Supposing that such writers can prove , independently of revelation , that there is a Great First Cause - who thanks them ? They only prove that which insanity alone denies . What man wants to know is this - Is the God ...
... ancient systems ! Supposing that such writers can prove , independently of revelation , that there is a Great First Cause - who thanks them ? They only prove that which insanity alone denies . What man wants to know is this - Is the God ...
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... ancient as well as modern languages , to gain some insight into the cause of the prevalence of metaphor and of allegory , in all the early revelations made to man . However imperfectly we may have succeeded in , what all our readers ...
... ancient as well as modern languages , to gain some insight into the cause of the prevalence of metaphor and of allegory , in all the early revelations made to man . However imperfectly we may have succeeded in , what all our readers ...
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... ancient matters , ' de- serving much more of our attention , on whom the ends of the world have come , than has generally been given to them . Even could we obtain no key to such marvels , the very circumstance of finding the emblems at ...
... ancient matters , ' de- serving much more of our attention , on whom the ends of the world have come , than has generally been given to them . Even could we obtain no key to such marvels , the very circumstance of finding the emblems at ...
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... ancients have considered the psalm , and the church therefore hath appointed it to be read on Christmas - day . ' The same writer adds , ' the heavens are not endowed like man with the faculty of speech , but they address themselves to ...
... ancients have considered the psalm , and the church therefore hath appointed it to be read on Christmas - day . ' The same writer adds , ' the heavens are not endowed like man with the faculty of speech , but they address themselves to ...
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... ancient mythology , that , from the very earliest ages , the stars have been divided into separate constel- lations or hieroglyphical figures ; and it is equally undeniable , that , so far back as history or anti- quarian research has ...
... ancient mythology , that , from the very earliest ages , the stars have been divided into separate constel- lations or hieroglyphical figures ; and it is equally undeniable , that , so far back as history or anti- quarian research has ...
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Page 204 - Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Page 224 - Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire ? They answered and said unto the king, True, 0 king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt ; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Page 338 - Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord ; and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you : whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Page 303 - O fools, and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken ! Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory ? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them, in all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself.
Page 215 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people According to the number of the children of Israel : For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Page 258 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page 341 - And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.
Page 166 - For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth ; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Page 121 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Page 233 - Hast thou not known ? hast thou not heard, That the everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, neither is weary ? There is no searching of his understanding.