The Use of Sacred History: Especially as Illustrating and Confirming the Great Doctrines of Revelation. To which are Prefixed Two Dissertations; the First, on the Authrnticity of the History Contained in the Pentateuch, and in Joshua, the Second, Proving that the Books Ascribed to Moses Were Actually Written by Him and by Divine Inspiration, Volume 1A. Nell, 1802 - Bible |
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... light ; far lefs would they have received them as divinely inspired , and as the only rule of their faith and manners . It cannot justly be faid , that the biblical history afcribes fuch high antiquity to the Ifraelites as a nation ...
... light ; far lefs would they have received them as divinely inspired , and as the only rule of their faith and manners . It cannot justly be faid , that the biblical history afcribes fuch high antiquity to the Ifraelites as a nation ...
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... light . There were , however , two remarkable facts , by which the truth of this miracle was attested in later times . The family of Rahab the harlot was well known , as long as the diftinction of families was pre- ferved among that ...
... light . There were , however , two remarkable facts , by which the truth of this miracle was attested in later times . The family of Rahab the harlot was well known , as long as the diftinction of families was pre- ferved among that ...
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... light . We perceive , not only the propriety of obferving the feast of Pentecoft , but of the season of it ; when we learn from the hiftory of Ifrael , that the law was revealed fifty days , as the word Pentecoft fignifies , after their ...
... light . We perceive , not only the propriety of obferving the feast of Pentecoft , but of the season of it ; when we learn from the hiftory of Ifrael , that the law was revealed fifty days , as the word Pentecoft fignifies , after their ...
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... light . Thus they were taught , that He , who gave the law by Mofes , was indeed the Maker of heaven and earth ; and were guard- ed against that foolish idea , fo common among the heathen , that the god of one country had no fort of ...
... light . Thus they were taught , that He , who gave the law by Mofes , was indeed the Maker of heaven and earth ; and were guard- ed against that foolish idea , fo common among the heathen , that the god of one country had no fort of ...
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... light of the promise . They could have no juft idea of their facrifices and other rites of the fame nature , without knowing that they all respected the brui- fing of the heel of the promised feed . On this great promise , did the ...
... light of the promise . They could have no juft idea of their facrifices and other rites of the fame nature , without knowing that they all respected the brui- fing of the heel of the promised feed . On this great promise , did the ...
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Page 431 - And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem, shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Page 76 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Page 444 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Page 302 - Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
Page 344 - Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
Page 431 - And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain ; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Page 270 - And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Page 435 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: For, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: And the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
Page 28 - The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
Page 454 - Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together : for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.