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reasonable ends could be served by prophecies , expressed with some obscurity
, and accomplished in a sense much below what may seem necessary to
unavoidable conviction ? Can they even pretend , on any clear principles of
reason ...
reasonable ends could be served by prophecies , expressed with some obscurity
, and accomplished in a sense much below what may seem necessary to
unavoidable conviction ? Can they even pretend , on any clear principles of
reason ...
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Prophecies of very remote events , remote I mean from the date of the prediction ,
are universally the most obscure . ... Yet neither are we to conceive that those
fresh prophecies , or this new light removes all obscurity ; enough is still left to ...
Prophecies of very remote events , remote I mean from the date of the prediction ,
are universally the most obscure . ... Yet neither are we to conceive that those
fresh prophecies , or this new light removes all obscurity ; enough is still left to ...
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The scriptural prophecies we own to be obscure , to a certain degree : And we
may call them , too , ambiguous ... The obscurity and ambiguity of the Pagan
oracles had no necessary , or reasonable cause in the subject , on which they
turned ...
The scriptural prophecies we own to be obscure , to a certain degree : And we
may call them , too , ambiguous ... The obscurity and ambiguity of the Pagan
oracles had no necessary , or reasonable cause in the subject , on which they
turned ...
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It follows from what hath been said , that the obscurity of the Jewish prophecies
concludes nothing against the use of those writings , or against the application of
them , which Christians now make . Their declared use is posterior to the facts ...
It follows from what hath been said , that the obscurity of the Jewish prophecies
concludes nothing against the use of those writings , or against the application of
them , which Christians now make . Their declared use is posterior to the facts ...
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I omit many other causes of obscurity in the prophecies ; such as the seeming
incredibility , sometimes , of the things predicted — the undefined chronology and
geography — the intricacy of the method and many other considerations . But you
...
I omit many other causes of obscurity in the prophecies ; such as the seeming
incredibility , sometimes , of the things predicted — the undefined chronology and
geography — the intricacy of the method and many other considerations . But you
...
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Page 156 - 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...
Page 106 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Page 158 - Thy people also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
Page 151 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 158 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 287 - And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Page 78 - I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen : but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
Page 277 - ... shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Page 342 - Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish : for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Page 159 - He shall not strive, nor cry ; Neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed shall he not break, And smoking flax shall he not quench, Till he send forth judgment unto victory.
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| Title | An Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies Concerning the Christian Church, And, in Particular, Concerning the Church of Papal Rome: in Twelve Sermons ... |
| Author | Richard Hurd |
| Publisher | Farrand, Mallory, and Company Samuel T. Armstrong, printer, Charlestown., 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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