Remarks on Dr. Middleton's Free Enquiry Into the Miraculous Powers Supposed to Have Subsisted in the Christian Church from the Earliest Ages: ... By John Jackson, ... |
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Page 29 - But the day of the Lord will come ... in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Page 29 - But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the fame word are kept in ftore referved unto fireagainft the day of judgement, and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 43 - Paul) shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lye, that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness...
Page 41 - ... 21. You conclude this head : ' When pious Christians are arrived to this pitch of credulity, as to believe that evil spirits or evil men can work miracles in opposition to the gospel, their very piety will oblige them to admit as miraculous whatever is pretended to be wrought in defence of it
Page 4 - Could this assertion be well supported, I own that, far from its being a matter of indifference whether we believe or reject the miracles of the fathers, those of the gospel must stand or fall with them. But I am confident that every...
Page 27 - I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Page 22 - Scriptures, if 1 had not by the will of God received the grace to understand them ?" 4. However, now you clap your wings. " What credit," say you, " can be due to this Father, in the report of other people's gifts, who was so grossly deceived, or willing at least to deceive others, in this confident attestation of his own ?" The answer is plain and obvious. It is not clear, that he attests his own at all. Consequently, as yet his (credit is unblemished, " But he did not understand Hebrew, and gave...
Page 54 - Speaking of the heretics, he says, " they cannot give sight to the blind, nor hearing to the deaf, nor...
Page 7 - A view of the controverfy concerning the miraculous powers, which are fuppofed to have fubfifted in the Chriftian Church, from the earlieft ages, through feveral fucceflivc centuries.
Page 17 - In the writings of Justin Martyr, [AD 150 to 160], the claim to miraculous power was put forth with much distinctness. He says: "There are prophetical gifts among us at this day, and both men and women are endued with extraordinary powers by the spirit of God.