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... question of no small difficulty , and of the first importance . It is this , What evidence of a providence may arise from predictions like the one we have now been considering , in which a variety of unconnected events , independent ...
... question of no small difficulty , and of the first importance . It is this , What evidence of a providence may arise from predictions like the one we have now been considering , in which a variety of unconnected events , independent ...
Page 69
... question to the bottom , ( which few , I am persuaded , have done , ) the evidence of a providence , arising from prophecies of this sort , should appear to be very slender , or none at all . Nor shall I scruple to confess , that time ...
... question to the bottom , ( which few , I am persuaded , have done , ) the evidence of a providence , arising from prophecies of this sort , should appear to be very slender , or none at all . Nor shall I scruple to confess , that time ...
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... question , what evidence such prophecies may afford of a divine providence , becomes of the highest moment . I enter upon the dis- cussion of it with this preliminary observ- ation , - -that if our suspicion that such prophecies may ...
... question , what evidence such prophecies may afford of a divine providence , becomes of the highest moment . I enter upon the dis- cussion of it with this preliminary observ- ation , - -that if our suspicion that such prophecies may ...
Page 72
... question , ― May the accomplishment of such predictions be or may it not be accidental ? If it may , then such prophecies are frivolous , and the Deity is blasphemed when they are ascribed to him . If it may not , then such prophecies ...
... question , ― May the accomplishment of such predictions be or may it not be accidental ? If it may , then such prophecies are frivolous , and the Deity is blasphemed when they are ascribed to him . If it may not , then such prophecies ...
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... question . It may be said , in defence . of the opinion he sustains , that though every author must be allowed to under- stand his own writings , it is not to be allowed that no writing is to be understood by any but the author of it ...
... question . It may be said , in defence . of the opinion he sustains , that though every author must be allowed to under- stand his own writings , it is not to be allowed that no writing is to be understood by any but the author of it ...
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Page 36 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
Page 137 - Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts : smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered : and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
Page 145 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit : by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison...
Page 371 - ... the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 55 - God shall enlarge Japhet: and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 33 - ... knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Page 207 - See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Page 299 - And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me...
Page 329 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Page 388 - I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.