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... moft contradictory opinions . There would be no fixed ftandard to which we could appeal . But if the fa- cred books be inspired , these inconvenien- ces are obviated . All difcuffion is fuper- feded , except with regard to their mean ...
... moft contradictory opinions . There would be no fixed ftandard to which we could appeal . But if the fa- cred books be inspired , these inconvenien- ces are obviated . All difcuffion is fuper- feded , except with regard to their mean ...
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... moft convincing manner , the divine au- thority of the books of the Old and the New Teftament . His labour will not be loft , if the following Effay be the means of reclaiming any of thofe unhappy per- fons , who have exchanged ...
... moft convincing manner , the divine au- thority of the books of the Old and the New Teftament . His labour will not be loft , if the following Effay be the means of reclaiming any of thofe unhappy per- fons , who have exchanged ...
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... moft fcrupulous care ; whence fome books , which were really infpired , were not at once received in every part of the Chriftian world ; and others , which bore the names of apoftles , be- ing found fuppofititious , were rejected . A ...
... moft fcrupulous care ; whence fome books , which were really infpired , were not at once received in every part of the Chriftian world ; and others , which bore the names of apoftles , be- ing found fuppofititious , were rejected . A ...
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... moft re- markable incidents in Tobit are exacly on a le- vel , in point of probability , with the tales which amufed our childhood . Antiochus is faid , in the first book of the Maccabees , to have died in Ba- bylon ; but , in the ...
... moft re- markable incidents in Tobit are exacly on a le- vel , in point of probability , with the tales which amufed our childhood . Antiochus is faid , in the first book of the Maccabees , to have died in Ba- bylon ; but , in the ...
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... Moft High God ; that having rifen from the dead , he had afcended to heaven , and was now conftituted the Lord of an gels and men ; that to believe in him was the enly way to obtain the favour of God , and the enjoyment of eternal life ...
... Moft High God ; that having rifen from the dead , he had afcended to heaven , and was now conftituted the Lord of an gels and men ; that to believe in him was the enly way to obtain the favour of God , and the enjoyment of eternal life ...
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Page 134 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Page 150 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 64 - We are of God: he that knoweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God, heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Page 230 - And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
Page 152 - For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of Hosts, is his name.
Page 150 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Page 162 - it was faid by them of old time, Thou fhalt not " commit adultery : But I fay unto you, That *' whofoever looketh on a woman to luft after her, " hath committed adultery with her already in his
Page 228 - And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent : for he is not a man, that he should repent.
Page 149 - He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered ? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.