Lectures on the four last books of the Pentateuch, Volume 2T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1807 - Bible |
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... Persia , Greece and Rome , which successively swayed the sceptre of the civilized world . So that . whatever knowledge of true religion was preserved amongst mankind , was in all pro- bability principally derived from this source , or ...
... Persia , Greece and Rome , which successively swayed the sceptre of the civilized world . So that . whatever knowledge of true religion was preserved amongst mankind , was in all pro- bability principally derived from this source , or ...
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... Persian empire , was so fully per- suaded of that divine Providence , whose spirit dictated the prophecies , so clearly pointing out the progress , nay the particu- lar mode of his successes , that he became the active assistant in the ...
... Persian empire , was so fully per- suaded of that divine Providence , whose spirit dictated the prophecies , so clearly pointing out the progress , nay the particu- lar mode of his successes , that he became the active assistant in the ...
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... Persians , which is venerable both for its antiquity and purity , as well as impor- tant from the number of its professors ; and which , if we may credit the most learned and industrious writers , * appears to have been * Consult Hyde's ...
... Persians , which is venerable both for its antiquity and purity , as well as impor- tant from the number of its professors ; and which , if we may credit the most learned and industrious writers , * appears to have been * Consult Hyde's ...
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... Persians had corrupted that purity of faith which they had received from their pious ancestor Elam the son of Shem , by the errors and superstitions of the * Zabian idolatry ; but that probably instructed by the Patriarch Abraham ...
... Persians had corrupted that purity of faith which they had received from their pious ancestor Elam the son of Shem , by the errors and superstitions of the * Zabian idolatry ; but that probably instructed by the Patriarch Abraham ...
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... Persians , Zerdusht or Zeradusht , ( by the Grecians " 6 erroneously termed Zoroaster ) wrote several books on dif- " ferent subjects , as we have proved in the proper place ; all " written in a language ancient , and in most places now ...
... Persians , Zerdusht or Zeradusht , ( by the Grecians " 6 erroneously termed Zoroaster ) wrote several books on dif- " ferent subjects , as we have proved in the proper place ; all " written in a language ancient , and in most places now ...
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Page 464 - But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my LAW in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 395 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight : I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...
Page 308 - They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house ; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life : in thy light shall we see light.
Page 334 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 270 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he, being dead, yet speaketh.
Page 441 - He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
Page 231 - ... you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation...
Page 403 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 320 - How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with thee.
Page 403 - And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.