Origines Sacrae: Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1817 - Apologetics |
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... called every living creature , that was the name thereof : i . e . saith he , fuerunt illis vera et germana nomina , et rerum naturis pro- priè accommodata . But however this be , we have this fur- ther evidence of that height of ...
... called every living creature , that was the name thereof : i . e . saith he , fuerunt illis vera et germana nomina , et rerum naturis pro- priè accommodata . But however this be , we have this fur- ther evidence of that height of ...
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... called the sun μύδρον διάπυρον , a mere globe of fire , for which he was condemned at Athens to banish- ment , and fined five talents ; yet the learned Vossius puts in this plea in his behalf , that he was one that asserted the creation ...
... called the sun μύδρον διάπυρον , a mere globe of fire , for which he was condemned at Athens to banish- ment , and fined five talents ; yet the learned Vossius puts in this plea in his behalf , that he was one that asserted the creation ...
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... called the light of truth , and the herald of times , yet that light is so faint and dim , especially in Hea- then nations , as not to serve to discover the face of Truth from her counterfeit , Error ; and that herald so little ...
... called the light of truth , and the herald of times , yet that light is so faint and dim , especially in Hea- then nations , as not to serve to discover the face of Truth from her counterfeit , Error ; and that herald so little ...
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... called by Galileo , admirandarum omnium inventionum hu- manarum fignaculum , the choicest of all human inventions . And had we no other evidence of the great obscurity of ancient history , the great difference as to the first inventor ...
... called by Galileo , admirandarum omnium inventionum hu- manarum fignaculum , the choicest of all human inventions . And had we no other evidence of the great obscurity of ancient history , the great difference as to the first inventor ...
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... called Ogygiæ ; and Strabo and Stephanus further say , that the whole country of Boeotia was called Ogygia : now all that mention the story of Cadmus , attribute to him the founding of the Boeotian Thebes . And withal it is observable ...
... called Ogygiæ ; and Strabo and Stephanus further say , that the whole country of Boeotia was called Ogygia : now all that mention the story of Cadmus , attribute to him the founding of the Boeotian Thebes . And withal it is observable ...
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Page 156 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 244 - THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life ; (for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us...
Page 305 - IF there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 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 190 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary ; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 191 - Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt ; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD.
Page 156 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us...
Page 304 - And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming : even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 166 - And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Page 243 - For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
Page 281 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.