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... fact , it is not without hesitation that he has consented to re - issue a book , of whose faults he has acquired so profound a sense , and in which few topics are presented in the manner that now seems to him the best . On reflection ...
... fact , it is not without hesitation that he has consented to re - issue a book , of whose faults he has acquired so profound a sense , and in which few topics are presented in the manner that now seems to him the best . On reflection ...
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... fact they have evident misrepresentations of miracle : they have strong traces of the peculiarities of the minds from which they spring , the confused , yet technical , order of Matthew , - the exaggerations of Mark , -the distinctness ...
... fact they have evident misrepresentations of miracle : they have strong traces of the peculiarities of the minds from which they spring , the confused , yet technical , order of Matthew , - the exaggerations of Mark , -the distinctness ...
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... fact , to its dictation : or , at all events , if they must be admitted to have furnished the ideas and language , as well as the mechanical process of writing , that their ideas were rendered infallibly correct , and the natural causes ...
... fact , to its dictation : or , at all events , if they must be admitted to have furnished the ideas and language , as well as the mechanical process of writing , that their ideas were rendered infallibly correct , and the natural causes ...
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... fact , and a statement of opinion . His fact is , that he has the ideas , the doctrines ; his opinion is , that their origin is divine . The former is absolute knowledge , which I cannot deny without impugning his veracity ; the latter ...
... fact , and a statement of opinion . His fact is , that he has the ideas , the doctrines ; his opinion is , that their origin is divine . The former is absolute knowledge , which I cannot deny without impugning his veracity ; the latter ...
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... fact , did not the minds of the Apostles retain some errors , long after they had been gifted with preter- natural power ? Did they not believe in demons occupying the bodies of men and of swine ? Did they not expect Christ to assume ...
... fact , did not the minds of the Apostles retain some errors , long after they had been gifted with preter- natural power ? Did they not believe in demons occupying the bodies of men and of swine ? Did they not expect Christ to assume ...
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RATIONALE OF RELIGIOUS ENQUIRY James 1805-1900 Martineau,Joseph Blanco 1775-1841 White No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 124 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 128 - 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 31 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 152 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Page 160 - This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God...
Page 28 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but my Father, which is in heaven...