Essays on Some of the Difficulties in the Writings of St. Paul: And in Other Parts of the New Testament |
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... things was by no means such as the above reasoning would lead us to suppose . Their minds were , on this subject especially , estranged from the love of truth . Many circumstances indeed concurred to render them habitually indifferent ...
... things was by no means such as the above reasoning would lead us to suppose . Their minds were , on this subject especially , estranged from the love of truth . Many circumstances indeed concurred to render them habitually indifferent ...
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... things , there were many popular delusions which were essential to the well - being of society . And in the foremost rank of these they placed their popular re- ligions . Their own notions respecting the Deity were totally unconnected ...
... things , there were many popular delusions which were essential to the well - being of society . And in the foremost rank of these they placed their popular re- ligions . Their own notions respecting the Deity were totally unconnected ...
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... thing to be done , therefore , was to forbid all doubts as impious , --- to suppress all inquiry ; and , consequently , to forego even the practice of asserting the truth of the established systems . They were main- tained as ...
... thing to be done , therefore , was to forbid all doubts as impious , --- to suppress all inquiry ; and , consequently , to forego even the practice of asserting the truth of the established systems . They were main- tained as ...
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... things that the ideas of religion and of truth , —of pious demeanour , and of sincere belief , —should come to be completely disjoined in men's minds ; and that they should even be somewhat startled at the very pretension to truth as ...
... things that the ideas of religion and of truth , —of pious demeanour , and of sincere belief , —should come to be completely disjoined in men's minds ; and that they should even be somewhat startled at the very pretension to truth as ...
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... things , and hold fast that which is right , " and to be " ready to give a reason of their faith . " Do Christians , then , in this respect , shew themselves worthy of their peculiar advantages ? Do they speak and act altogether ...
... things , and hold fast that which is right , " and to be " ready to give a reason of their faith . " Do Christians , then , in this respect , shew themselves worthy of their peculiar advantages ? Do they speak and act altogether ...
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Page 71 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 3 - As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Page 140 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 276 - Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. 22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Page 49 - He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
Page 173 - For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Page 42 - Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Page 42 - And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken : and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Page 95 - Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
Page 139 - What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?