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The Boyle Lectures for the Year 1864... Charles Merivale. BIBLI BODI CONTENTS . LECTURE I. ( Page 1. ) CHRISTIAN BELIEF.
The Boyle Lectures for the Year 1864... Charles Merivale. BIBLI BODI CONTENTS . LECTURE I. ( Page 1. ) CHRISTIAN BELIEF.
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... CHRISTIAN BELIEF CONTRASTED WITH HEATHEN UNBELIEF . ACTS XVII . 32 . And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead , some mocked : and others said , We will hear thee again of this matter . LECTURE II . ( Page 21. ) HEATHEN BELIEF ...
... CHRISTIAN BELIEF CONTRASTED WITH HEATHEN UNBELIEF . ACTS XVII . 32 . And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead , some mocked : and others said , We will hear thee again of this matter . LECTURE II . ( Page 21. ) HEATHEN BELIEF ...
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... CHRISTIANITY RESPOND TO THE QUESTIONS OF THE HEATHENS . ST . MATTHEW XXVIII . 19 . The name of the Father , and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost . THE LECTURE VIII . ( Page 150. ) GODLY EXAMPLE OF THE CHRISTIANS COMPLETES THE ...
... CHRISTIANITY RESPOND TO THE QUESTIONS OF THE HEATHENS . ST . MATTHEW XXVIII . 19 . The name of the Father , and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost . THE LECTURE VIII . ( Page 150. ) GODLY EXAMPLE OF THE CHRISTIANS COMPLETES THE ...
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... Christianity owes some portion , how- ever trifling , of its success to the false pretensions of the so - called Sibylline Oracles , which form no part of its genuine credentials . On these accounts , and because a discussion on this ...
... Christianity owes some portion , how- ever trifling , of its success to the false pretensions of the so - called Sibylline Oracles , which form no part of its genuine credentials . On these accounts , and because a discussion on this ...
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... Christian evidences on which I have most emphatically insisted ; for by this , I believe , the most refined and intelligent of the heathen were actually converted , and there is none to the action of which we can point so reasonably and ...
... Christian evidences on which I have most emphatically insisted ; for by this , I believe , the most refined and intelligent of the heathen were actually converted , and there is none to the action of which we can point so reasonably and ...
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Page 21 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 201 - NOW I say, that the heir as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all ; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world : But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Page 19 - God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made; Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary And was made man; And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
Page 200 - In this was manifested the love of GOD towards us, because that GOD sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved GOD, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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