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... arguments alleged by them , far the greater proportion will usually be found to militate against principles already admitted by themselves , while almost all of them consist of isolated and desultory attacks upon some detached point of ...
... arguments alleged by them , far the greater proportion will usually be found to militate against principles already admitted by themselves , while almost all of them consist of isolated and desultory attacks upon some detached point of ...
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... argument . In so short a work , an attempt to give a general and con- nected view of the internal evidences of our faith must necessarily confine itself to the discussion of the more general and prominent topics . It will , however ...
... argument . In so short a work , an attempt to give a general and con- nected view of the internal evidences of our faith must necessarily confine itself to the discussion of the more general and prominent topics . It will , however ...
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... argument being not what a speculative imagin- ation might suppose the constitution of the universe to have been , had God so willed it , but what it actu- ally and demonstrably is . The conclusion at which of course , we hope to arrive ...
... argument being not what a speculative imagin- ation might suppose the constitution of the universe to have been , had God so willed it , but what it actu- ally and demonstrably is . The conclusion at which of course , we hope to arrive ...
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... arguments of its most inveterate opponents , or the vices and superstitions of its less informed followers could inflict upon it , and that , at this moment , it stands entire ; assented to in all points by a vast number of men of the ...
... arguments of its most inveterate opponents , or the vices and superstitions of its less informed followers could inflict upon it , and that , at this moment , it stands entire ; assented to in all points by a vast number of men of the ...
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... arguments for and against Christianity , have decided upon unbelief as the least difficulty of the two ; and who , without entertaining any violent hostility against it as a system of opinions , have still asserted the incurable ...
... arguments for and against Christianity , have decided upon unbelief as the least difficulty of the two ; and who , without entertaining any violent hostility against it as a system of opinions , have still asserted the incurable ...
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Page 89 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 142 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 89 - And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day...
Page 90 - Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself : I am the LORD.
Page 89 - Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
Page 60 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree -of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 141 - And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish ; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Page 91 - ... When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 244 - They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Page 90 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ? thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the LORD your God.