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... reason , they were well able to conceive how the spirit of prophecy would be administered , if man had the disposal of this spirit committed to him . Now it happens , as I said , ( by an inexcusa- ble perverseness , or inattention ...
... reason , they were well able to conceive how the spirit of prophecy would be administered , if man had the disposal of this spirit committed to him . Now it happens , as I said , ( by an inexcusa- ble perverseness , or inattention ...
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... reason enough to direct it towards such scenes and objects , as we might be apt to undervalue or overlook . It is even very conceivable , that , if God be the dispenser of prophecy , and not man , all that seems great and illustrious in ...
... reason enough to direct it towards such scenes and objects , as we might be apt to undervalue or overlook . It is even very conceivable , that , if God be the dispenser of prophecy , and not man , all that seems great and illustrious in ...
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... reason in this manner on the subject of divine prophecy , is to suffer ourselves to be misled by a poor and vulgar prejudice ; and to forget , what we should ever have present to us , the claim of God's prophets to speak , not as ...
... reason in this manner on the subject of divine prophecy , is to suffer ourselves to be misled by a poor and vulgar prejudice ; and to forget , what we should ever have present to us , the claim of God's prophets to speak , not as ...
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... reason to believe , that many of the ancient speculatists reasoned thus on the sub- ject of divination . For , as they argued from the existence of their gods , to the necessity of divination ; so , again , they turned the argu- ment ...
... reason to believe , that many of the ancient speculatists reasoned thus on the sub- ject of divination . For , as they argued from the existence of their gods , to the necessity of divination ; so , again , they turned the argu- ment ...
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... reason , most undoubtedly not all the reasons , why it is given , and have even no right to demand , that it should be given at all ? " Till these , and other questions of the like sort , be pertinently answered , it must be in vain to ...
... reason , most undoubtedly not all the reasons , why it is given , and have even no right to demand , that it should be given at all ? " Till these , and other questions of the like sort , be pertinently answered , it must be in vain to ...
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Page 107 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Page 24 - And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not : I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Page 166 - Behold my servant, whom I have chosen ; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased : I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.
Page 164 - Thy people also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
Page 75 - I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen : but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
Page 32 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come ; that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 175 - Little children, it is the last time ; and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Page 31 - But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
Page 290 - ... shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Page 310 - Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken : the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.