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... Prophets . It is impossible to mistake the complete change of tone and spirit . The ordinances indeed remain , and the obligation to observe them is always assumed . But they have sunk to the second place . The national attention is ...
... Prophets . It is impossible to mistake the complete change of tone and spirit . The ordinances indeed remain , and the obligation to observe them is always assumed . But they have sunk to the second place . The national attention is ...
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... Prophets were followed in their turn by the great Lesson of the Captivity . Then for the first time the Jews learned , what that Law and the Prophets had been for centuries vainly endeavouring to teach them , namely , to abandon for ...
... Prophets were followed in their turn by the great Lesson of the Captivity . Then for the first time the Jews learned , what that Law and the Prophets had been for centuries vainly endeavouring to teach them , namely , to abandon for ...
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... prophets . But the world was now grown old enough to be taught by seeing the lives of saints , better than by hearing the words of prophets . When afterwards Christians needed creeds , and liturgies , and forms of church government ...
... prophets . But the world was now grown old enough to be taught by seeing the lives of saints , better than by hearing the words of prophets . When afterwards Christians needed creeds , and liturgies , and forms of church government ...
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... prophets have communicated messages from heaven . No infallible inspiration has guided any teacher or preacher . The claim of infallibility still maintained by a portion of Christendom has been entirely given up by the more advanced ...
... prophets have communicated messages from heaven . No infallible inspiration has guided any teacher or preacher . The claim of infallibility still maintained by a portion of Christendom has been entirely given up by the more advanced ...
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... Prophets in a riddle , which requires only a key to it , they are disappointed to hear of moral lessons , however ... prophecy tended to a system more spiritual than that of Levi ; and they argued unanswerably that circumcision and the ...
... Prophets in a riddle , which requires only a key to it , they are disappointed to hear of moral lessons , however ... prophecy tended to a system more spiritual than that of Levi ; and they argued unanswerably that circumcision and the ...
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Page 295 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 323 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one ' with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years...
Page 158 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 213 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it...
Page 201 - And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 304 - Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement, but I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Page 306 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 254 - Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.
Page 350 - Ghost, and taste of the good Word of God, and of the powers of the life to come, and yet have no part in Christ at all.