Origines Sacrae: Or A Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion: To which is Added Part of Another Book Upon the Same Subject, Left Unfinished by the Author. Together with A Letter to a Deist. In Two Volumes. ... |
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... purposes of his will unto the true prophets . V. The grand question propounded , How it may be known when predictions express God's decrees , and when only the feries of caufes ? For the first , several rules laid down . 1. When the ...
... purposes of his will unto the true prophets . V. The grand question propounded , How it may be known when predictions express God's decrees , and when only the feries of caufes ? For the first , several rules laid down . 1. When the ...
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... purpose to gratify the most noble fa- culty of our fouls , and do moft immediately tend to advance the highest perfection of our rational beings . For all our moft laudable endeavours after knowledge now , are only the gathering up of ...
... purpose to gratify the most noble fa- culty of our fouls , and do moft immediately tend to advance the highest perfection of our rational beings . For all our moft laudable endeavours after knowledge now , are only the gathering up of ...
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... purpose Clemens Alexandrinus produceth the teftimony of an ancient grammarian , Dionyfius Thrax , in his expofition of the fymbol of the wheels : ἐσήμαινον γοῦν ἢ διὰ λέξεως Clem . μόνον , ἀλλὰ καὶ διὰ συμβόλων ἔνιοι τας πράξεις that ...
... purpose Clemens Alexandrinus produceth the teftimony of an ancient grammarian , Dionyfius Thrax , in his expofition of the fymbol of the wheels : ἐσήμαινον γοῦν ἢ διὰ λέξεως Clem . μόνον , ἀλλὰ καὶ διὰ συμβόλων ἔνιοι τας πράξεις that ...
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... purpose to offer to prove that , which they who arrogate fo much to themselves , do fo freely acknowledge . Which yet hath been done to very good purpose by Scalig . Not . Jofeph Scaliger and Bochartus , and many others , from the form ...
... purpose to offer to prove that , which they who arrogate fo much to themselves , do fo freely acknowledge . Which yet hath been done to very good purpose by Scalig . Not . Jofeph Scaliger and Bochartus , and many others , from the form ...
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... purpose , that they had no other Gods but the ftars , to whom they made ftatues and images : to the fun golden , to the moon filver ; and fo to the rest of the planets of the metals dedicated to them . Thofe images derived an influence ...
... purpose , that they had no other Gods but the ftars , to whom they made ftatues and images : to the fun golden , to the moon filver ; and fo to the rest of the planets of the metals dedicated to them . Thofe images derived an influence ...
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Page 213 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Page 401 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them...
Page 326 - Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
Page 204 - Lord hath not spoken ? when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Page 326 - And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem ; whom they slew and hanged on a tree...
Page 214 - Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Page 326 - And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of quick and dead.
Page 284 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 257 - 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 ; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord...
Page 238 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying : — " Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be My people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.