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... questions , which have afforded matter of inexhaustible contention , and the pre- carious speculations of some of our late intrepid theorists in reli- gion , Dr. Campbell regarded as worse than unprofitable . In these theorists he ...
... questions , which have afforded matter of inexhaustible contention , and the pre- carious speculations of some of our late intrepid theorists in reli- gion , Dr. Campbell regarded as worse than unprofitable . In these theorists he ...
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... questions that have been rendered intricate by using scrip- tural terms in a sense merely modern , and of such questions ... question . This is only one instance out of many that might be produced from the same work , in which the reader ...
... questions that have been rendered intricate by using scrip- tural terms in a sense merely modern , and of such questions ... question . This is only one instance out of many that might be produced from the same work , in which the reader ...
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... question the utility of studying carefully those languages in which they were originally composed . These are especially the Hebrew and the Greek . I say especially , because a small part of the Old Testament is written in the Chaldee ...
... question the utility of studying carefully those languages in which they were originally composed . These are especially the Hebrew and the Greek . I say especially , because a small part of the Old Testament is written in the Chaldee ...
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... question them . About these , there is no controversy in the church . Such are the doctrines of the unity , the ... questions will be found to have been agitated among theologians , as to which the scriptures when examined with ...
... question them . About these , there is no controversy in the church . Such are the doctrines of the unity , the ... questions will be found to have been agitated among theologians , as to which the scriptures when examined with ...
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... question of mere curiosity , and said concerning his fellow disciple , " What shall become of this man ? " he was ... questions have been agitated , and what have been the consequences . To enter fur- ther into the affair will be found a ...
... question of mere curiosity , and said concerning his fellow disciple , " What shall become of this man ? " he was ... questions have been agitated , and what have been the consequences . To enter fur- ther into the affair will be found a ...
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Page 147 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 114 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 59 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Page 86 - Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 154 - The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye : return, come.
Page 70 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring NATURE, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art.
Page 56 - Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2.
Page 55 - And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
Page 23 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 41 - True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.