The intent and propriety of the Scripture miracles considered and explained, sermons preached in 1769,1770 and 1771 for the lect. founded by the hon. R. Boyle, Volume 11773 |
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... present situa- tion . For which of the miracles exhibited to Pharaoh would have been to Adam , what the debafing of the ferpent to the abject state of a reptile was a standing security for the completion of his hopes , and a prelude to ...
... present situa- tion . For which of the miracles exhibited to Pharaoh would have been to Adam , what the debafing of the ferpent to the abject state of a reptile was a standing security for the completion of his hopes , and a prelude to ...
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... present themselves to us . In the beginning of the world , there feems to have been no occafion for any miracles ; and therefore we read of none . For , as man was created in a state of uprightness , purity and innocence ; he had ...
... present themselves to us . In the beginning of the world , there feems to have been no occafion for any miracles ; and therefore we read of none . For , as man was created in a state of uprightness , purity and innocence ; he had ...
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... present . This , how little foever we may have attended to it , the Scripture has been careful to apprize us of : for in the account before us , he is twice reckoned , and ex- prefly reckoned among the beafts , in plain ...
... present . This , how little foever we may have attended to it , the Scripture has been careful to apprize us of : for in the account before us , he is twice reckoned , and ex- prefly reckoned among the beafts , in plain ...
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... present time . ' It is clear from the words of the prophecy , that fin was not to be freely forgiven ; but required an atonement to be made for it : that the ferpent could not be conquered , nor the mischiefs of the fall repaired , but ...
... present time . ' It is clear from the words of the prophecy , that fin was not to be freely forgiven ; but required an atonement to be made for it : that the ferpent could not be conquered , nor the mischiefs of the fall repaired , but ...
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... present manifestation should carry some → thing in its nature and form , equally adapted to convince them of the erroneoufness of thefe principles , as to deter them from the practice of the forementioned vices . And what , I beseech ...
... present manifestation should carry some → thing in its nature and form , equally adapted to convince them of the erroneoufness of thefe principles , as to deter them from the practice of the forementioned vices . And what , I beseech ...
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Page xiii - And they said go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city, and the tower which the children of men builded.
Page 171 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page xii - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page xiv - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Page xii - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 216 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page xv - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 289 - For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Page 277 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 172 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.