An Introduction to the Study of the Prophecies Concerning the Christian Church, And, in Particular, Concerning the Church of Papal Rome: in Twelve Sermons ...Farrand, Mallory, and Company Samuel T. Armstrong, printer, Charlestown., 1809 - Antichrist - 342 pages |
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... Pagan oracles had no necessary , or reasona- ble cause in the subject , on which they turned : the obscurity and ambiguity of the scriptural prophecies have an evident reason in the system to which they belong . As the Pagan predictions ...
... Pagan oracles had no necessary , or reasona- ble cause in the subject , on which they turned : the obscurity and ambiguity of the scriptural prophecies have an evident reason in the system to which they belong . As the Pagan predictions ...
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... paganism , was a prophet , too . * Hence Sidonius , in personating the city of Rome , makes her ask- Quid , rogo , bis seno mihi vulture Thuscus aruspex Portendit ? Sidon . Carm . vii . 55 . And again , addressing himself to the same ...
... paganism , was a prophet , too . * Hence Sidonius , in personating the city of Rome , makes her ask- Quid , rogo , bis seno mihi vulture Thuscus aruspex Portendit ? Sidon . Carm . vii . 55 . And again , addressing himself to the same ...
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... pagan world , was able to produce nothing equal , or comparable to them . We have the fullest evidence , that these two predictions were delivered by the persons , to whom they are ascribed ; and in the time , in which they are said to ...
... pagan world , was able to produce nothing equal , or comparable to them . We have the fullest evidence , that these two predictions were delivered by the persons , to whom they are ascribed ; and in the time , in which they are said to ...
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... pagan diviners could thus prophecy , by their own spirit ? To this objection , put with all the force which I am able to give to it , I reply directly , That the distinction so importunately demanded , may very easily and clearly be ...
... pagan diviners could thus prophecy , by their own spirit ? To this objection , put with all the force which I am able to give to it , I reply directly , That the distinction so importunately demanded , may very easily and clearly be ...
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... paganism , some few only should come to pass , while the generality of them fell to the ground , may well be the sport of fortune . * But , that very many prophecies , recorded in our scrip- tures , have had an evident completion , when ...
... paganism , some few only should come to pass , while the generality of them fell to the ground , may well be the sport of fortune . * But , that very many prophecies , recorded in our scrip- tures , have had an evident completion , when ...
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Page 156 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt...
Page 106 - 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 158 - 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 151 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 158 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 287 - And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Page 78 - 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 277 - ... shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Page 342 - Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish : for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Page 159 - 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.