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... Christ Jesus . It appeals to all men without distinction of class and nation . But it addresses itself more especially to men of intelligence and moral sensibility . It is the highest and the worthiest testimony , the most distinctive ...
... Christ Jesus . It appeals to all men without distinction of class and nation . But it addresses itself more especially to men of intelligence and moral sensibility . It is the highest and the worthiest testimony , the most distinctive ...
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... Christians throughout the trials of life , and especially in the crowning trial of martyrdom , were , as we may be ... Christ Jesus . Men of earnest thought and men of ardent feeling had already been converted by the evidence before ...
... Christians throughout the trials of life , and especially in the crowning trial of martyrdom , were , as we may be ... Christ Jesus . Men of earnest thought and men of ardent feeling had already been converted by the evidence before ...
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... Christ would be established in the Roman Empire , and the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus become the moral law of civilized men through- out the inhabited world ' of the Greek or Roman . We may take the statement of the text , then 4 ...
... Christ would be established in the Roman Empire , and the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus become the moral law of civilized men through- out the inhabited world ' of the Greek or Roman . We may take the statement of the text , then 4 ...
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... Christ Jesus . The line One indulgence your lecturer must crave . of enquiry thus marked out cannot be profitably fol- lowed in these discourses without the free use of the materials of secular history , without repeated reference to ...
... Christ Jesus . The line One indulgence your lecturer must crave . of enquiry thus marked out cannot be profitably fol- lowed in these discourses without the free use of the materials of secular history , without repeated reference to ...
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... Jesus Christ at the new Rome on the Bosphorus may be appreciated from the contrast of two historical scenes which I will now place before you . The Roman senators were assembled on the fifth of December , in the year 63 before Christ ...
... Jesus Christ at the new Rome on the Bosphorus may be appreciated from the contrast of two historical scenes which I will now place before you . The Roman senators were assembled on the fifth of December , in the year 63 before Christ ...
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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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