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... were at the same time , preluding , as it were , to the person and dispensation
of Jesus ; the Holy Spirit , which inspired them , bearing out their expression , and
enlarging their conceptions , beyond the worth and size of those objects , which ...
... were at the same time , preluding , as it were , to the person and dispensation
of Jesus ; the Holy Spirit , which inspired them , bearing out their expression , and
enlarging their conceptions , beyond the worth and size of those objects , which ...
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Indeed prophecies , unaccomplished , may have their use ; that is , they may
serve to raise a general expectation of a predicted event in the minds of those ,
who , for other reasons , regard the person predicting it , in the light of a true
prophet .
Indeed prophecies , unaccomplished , may have their use ; that is , they may
serve to raise a general expectation of a predicted event in the minds of those ,
who , for other reasons , regard the person predicting it , in the light of a true
prophet .
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all together in no other person whatsoever : Therefore the prediction of these
events was divinely inspired : or ( which comes to the same thing ) therefore the
person , claiming under these predic . tions to be the Messiah , or person foretold
...
all together in no other person whatsoever : Therefore the prediction of these
events was divinely inspired : or ( which comes to the same thing ) therefore the
person , claiming under these predic . tions to be the Messiah , or person foretold
...
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the like nature * - - When all this , I say , is considered , the improbability , that
these specific charac . ters should meet in the same person by chance , is so
great , that a reasonable man will scarce venture on so hazardous a position . 3 .
the like nature * - - When all this , I say , is considered , the improbability , that
these specific charac . ters should meet in the same person by chance , is so
great , that a reasonable man will scarce venture on so hazardous a position . 3 .
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... as referring to some corrupt Christian and even ecclesiastical person or power
; and that many eminent members of the Christian church had even applied those
prophecies to the same person or power , to which protestants now apply them ...
... as referring to some corrupt Christian and even ecclesiastical person or power
; and that many eminent members of the Christian church had even applied those
prophecies to the same person or power , to which protestants now apply them ...
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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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