Recent Inquiries in Theology: By Eminent English Churchmen : Being "Essays and Reviews"Frederic Henry Hedge |
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... ment of a very comprehensive fact . The child that is born to - day may possibly have the same faculties as if he had been born in the days of Noah : if it be otherwise , we possess no means of determining the difference . But the ...
... ment of a very comprehensive fact . The child that is born to - day may possibly have the same faculties as if he had been born in the days of Noah : if it be otherwise , we possess no means of determining the difference . But the ...
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... ment . She had been trained to it by centuries of difficult and tumultuous history . Storms which would have rent asunder the framework of any other polity only practised her in the art of controlling popular passions ; and , when she ...
... ment . She had been trained to it by centuries of difficult and tumultuous history . Storms which would have rent asunder the framework of any other polity only practised her in the art of controlling popular passions ; and , when she ...
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... all travels in the East , as well as the verdict of philologers at home . Mr. G. Rawlinson's proof of this is stronger , because undesigned . old Anglican foundations of research and fair state- ment , BUNSEN'S BIBLICAL RESEARCHES . 59.
... all travels in the East , as well as the verdict of philologers at home . Mr. G. Rawlinson's proof of this is stronger , because undesigned . old Anglican foundations of research and fair state- ment , BUNSEN'S BIBLICAL RESEARCHES . 59.
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... ment , we must revise some of the decisions provi- sionally given upon imperfect evidence : or , if we shrink from doing so , we must abdicate our ancient claim to build upon the truth ; and our retreat will be either to Rome , as some ...
... ment , we must revise some of the decisions provi- sionally given upon imperfect evidence : or , if we shrink from doing so , we must abdicate our ancient claim to build upon the truth ; and our retreat will be either to Rome , as some ...
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... ment in revelation . " Without borrowing the fifteen centuries which the Greek Church and the Septuagint would lend us , we see , from comparing the Bible with the Egyptian records and with itself , that our com- mon dates are wrong ...
... ment in revelation . " Without borrowing the fifteen centuries which the Greek Church and the Septuagint would lend us , we see , from comparing the Bible with the Egyptian records and with itself , that our com- mon dates are wrong ...
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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...