A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Whole World: Or, A Complete and Impartial View of All the Religions in the Various Nations of the Universe : Both Antient and Modern, from the Creation Down to the Present Time ... Designed to Form a Complete Family Library ... |
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... idols , and offering up human sacrifices , the Jews were adoring the true God , and waiting for the consolation of Israel . In the fulness of time , God made manifest to them his purpose of saving a lost world , and although they could ...
... idols , and offering up human sacrifices , the Jews were adoring the true God , and waiting for the consolation of Israel . In the fulness of time , God made manifest to them his purpose of saving a lost world , and although they could ...
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... idol - time in Egypt , otherwise the king could not have atry . Abraham , as a wanderer and sojourner in a strange country , had not been above ten years ab- sent from Ur , of the Chaldeans , when a famine obliged him to go into Egypt ...
... idol - time in Egypt , otherwise the king could not have atry . Abraham , as a wanderer and sojourner in a strange country , had not been above ten years ab- sent from Ur , of the Chaldeans , when a famine obliged him to go into Egypt ...
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... idols , bloody wars often took place ; and whole provinces were depopulated to decide the question , whether a crocodile or a cat was a god ? And yet it is remar- kable , that although they disputed concerning the attributes of their idols ...
... idols , bloody wars often took place ; and whole provinces were depopulated to decide the question , whether a crocodile or a cat was a god ? And yet it is remar- kable , that although they disputed concerning the attributes of their idols ...
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... idol named Dagon , much in the same form as a mermaid is represented by the fabulous writers ; a human body from the navel upwards , and the lower part , that of a fish . The figure itself was very expressive ; for it pointed out , not ...
... idol named Dagon , much in the same form as a mermaid is represented by the fabulous writers ; a human body from the navel upwards , and the lower part , that of a fish . The figure itself was very expressive ; for it pointed out , not ...
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... idols ; and thus , by endeavouring to atone for their sins , they only increased the number . Sometimes they cut open the bowels of the victim , and then threw it into the fire , but the most common practice was to burnt it alive ...
... idols ; and thus , by endeavouring to atone for their sins , they only increased the number . Sometimes they cut open the bowels of the victim , and then threw it into the fire , but the most common practice was to burnt it alive ...
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Popular passages
Page 26 - Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not ; for he will not pardon your transgressions : for my name is in him.
Page 30 - Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your God Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them : and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Page 34 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 93 - For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Page 40 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 16 - And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Page 23 - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities ; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Page 93 - And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not : I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Page 52 - And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun...
Page 33 - ... having changed the glory of the incorruptible God, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.