Recent Inquiries in Theology: By Eminent English Churchmen : Being "Essays and Reviews"Frederic Henry Hedge |
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... authority without ; that the Bible is not a book of plenary inspiration , or Christianity a universal religion , specially authenticated in Palestine ; but that God inspires men ever and everywhere ; that there is only one kind of ...
... authority without ; that the Bible is not a book of plenary inspiration , or Christianity a universal religion , specially authenticated in Palestine ; but that God inspires men ever and everywhere ; that there is only one kind of ...
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... authority is utterly irreconcilable with our present feelings ; but , in the Mosaic system , the same peremptory legislation deals with all these matters , whether important or trivial . The fact is , that , however trivial they might ...
... authority is utterly irreconcilable with our present feelings ; but , in the Mosaic system , the same peremptory legislation deals with all these matters , whether important or trivial . The fact is , that , however trivial they might ...
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... authority during their term of office , or laws and judicial rules the same reverence . That which religion was to the Jew , including even the formalism which incrusted and fettered it , law was to the Roman ; and law was the lesson ...
... authority during their term of office , or laws and judicial rules the same reverence . That which religion was to the Jew , including even the formalism which incrusted and fettered it , law was to the Roman ; and law was the lesson ...
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... authority , and yet imposes on us no yoke of subjection . This it does by virtue of the principle of private judgment , which puts conscience between us and the Bible ; making conscience the supreme interpreter , whom it may be a duty ...
... authority , and yet imposes on us no yoke of subjection . This it does by virtue of the principle of private judgment , which puts conscience between us and the Bible ; making conscience the supreme interpreter , whom it may be a duty ...
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... authority for any ceremonial institution ; and , among those arguments , one of the foremost is the sympathy which the institution fosters between the student of the Bible and the book which he studies . This tendency to go back to the ...
... authority for any ceremonial institution ; and , among those arguments , one of the foremost is the sympathy which the institution fosters between the student of the Bible and the book which he studies . This tendency to go back to the ...
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Page 356 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 396 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one ' with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years...
Page 187 - 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 320 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious ; and accordingly they treat it as if in the present age this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 373 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 245 - And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 310 - Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.
Page 374 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 82 - Why may not justification by faith have meant the peace of mind, or sense of Divine approval, which comes of trust in a righteous God, rather than a fiction of merit by transfer?
Page 257 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...