Two Apologies: One for Christianity, in a Series of Letters Addressed to Edward Gibbon : the Other for the Bible, in Answer to Thomas Paine : to which are Added Two Sermons and a Charge in Defence of Revealed Religion |
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... suppose it was spread . It is no wish or intention of mine , to fasten the odium of this insinuation upon you : I shall simply endeavour to shew , that the causes you produce are either inadequate to the attainment of the end proposed ...
... suppose it was spread . It is no wish or intention of mine , to fasten the odium of this insinuation upon you : I shall simply endeavour to shew , that the causes you produce are either inadequate to the attainment of the end proposed ...
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... suppose then , that a new revelation was to be promulged to mankind ; and that twelve unlearned and unfriended men , inhabitants of any country most odious and des- picable in the eyes of Europe , should by the power of God be endowed ...
... suppose then , that a new revelation was to be promulged to mankind ; and that twelve unlearned and unfriended men , inhabitants of any country most odious and des- picable in the eyes of Europe , should by the power of God be endowed ...
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... were ever performed ? They indeed were learned and observant men ; and it may be a matter of surprise to us , that miracles so cele , brated as the friends of Christianity suppose the Christian ones AN APOLOGY FOR CHRISTIANITY . 89.
... were ever performed ? They indeed were learned and observant men ; and it may be a matter of surprise to us , that miracles so cele , brated as the friends of Christianity suppose the Christian ones AN APOLOGY FOR CHRISTIANITY . 89.
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... suppose the Christian ones to have been , should never have been mentioned by them though they had not seen them ; and had an Adrian or a Vespasian been the authors of but a thousandth part of the miracles you have ascribed to the ...
... suppose the Christian ones to have been , should never have been mentioned by them though they had not seen them ; and had an Adrian or a Vespasian been the authors of but a thousandth part of the miracles you have ascribed to the ...
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... suppose it was slight , as you have that it was excessive ; but if it was slight , though it had extended itself over the surface of the whole globe , the difficulty of its not being recorded by Pliny or Seneca va- nishes at once . Do ...
... suppose it was slight , as you have that it was excessive ; but if it was slight , though it had extended itself over the surface of the whole globe , the difficulty of its not being recorded by Pliny or Seneca va- nishes at once . Do ...
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Page 28 - For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Page 74 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Page 230 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises, whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 211 - And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
Page 210 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods...
Page 87 - And he opened the bottomless pit ; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace ; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Page 306 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
Page 354 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
Page 245 - I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Page 31 - Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.