Discourse on the Evidences of Revealed Religion1830 - 38 pages |
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... strength and depth of his conviction, as if he were affirming a common occurrence. Testimony then does just as much in the case of miracles as of common events ; that is, it discloses to us the conviction of another's mind. Now this ...
... strength and depth of his conviction, as if he were affirming a common occurrence. Testimony then does just as much in the case of miracles as of common events ; that is, it discloses to us the conviction of another's mind. Now this ...
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... strength must stop ; but that a man cannot carry Atlas or Andes on his shoulders, is a safe position. The question, therefore, whether the principles of human nature, under the circumstances in which it was placed at Christ's birth ...
... strength must stop ; but that a man cannot carry Atlas or Andes on his shoulders, is a safe position. The question, therefore, whether the principles of human nature, under the circumstances in which it was placed at Christ's birth ...
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... strength more strikingly, than the slowness with which it yielded in these honest men to the instructions of Jesus. Jesus came to a nation expecting a Messiah ; and he claimed this character. But instead of conforming to the opinions ...
... strength more strikingly, than the slowness with which it yielded in these honest men to the instructions of Jesus. Jesus came to a nation expecting a Messiah ; and he claimed this character. But instead of conforming to the opinions ...
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... strength of the passions and powers which were arrayed against him, and was perfectly aware that his life was to be shortened by violence ; yet not a word escapes him, implying a doubt of the ultimate triumphs of his religion. One of ...
... strength of the passions and powers which were arrayed against him, and was perfectly aware that his life was to be shortened by violence ; yet not a word escapes him, implying a doubt of the ultimate triumphs of his religion. One of ...
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... strength, amidst injuries and indignities which cannot be surpassed. JVow this singular eminence of goodness, this superiority to the degrading influences of the age, under which all other men suffered, needs to be explained ; and one ...
... strength, amidst injuries and indignities which cannot be surpassed. JVow this singular eminence of goodness, this superiority to the degrading influences of the age, under which all other men suffered, needs to be explained ; and one ...
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Page 14 - 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 31 - ... susceptible of mental sufferings, to which ruder ages are strangers; and these Christianity is fitted to assuage. Imagination and intellect become more restless ; and Christianity brings them tranquillity by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects, which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages of society than that in which it was introduced, to wants of human nature not then developed, seems to me very striking. The religion bears the marks...
Page 20 - I repeat the answer, that its design is to give, not a spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind.
Page 12 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 33 - Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Page 33 - If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed ; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." " If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Page 25 - Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
Page 7 - Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men, and that its meaning is to be sought in the same manner, as that of other books.
Page 7 - We regard the Scriptures as the records of God's successive revelations to mankind, and particularly of the last and most perfect revelation of his will by Jesus Christ. Whatever doctrines seem to us to be clearly taught in the Scriptures, we receive without reserve or exception.
Page 7 - We believe that God is infinitely good, kind, benevolent, in the proper sense of these words — good in disposition as well as in act; good not to a few, but to all; good to every individual, as well as to the general system.