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... appear to the interefts of truth , and hurtful to it's propagators , tend notwithstanding , perhaps , in the end , most effectually to advance the for- mer , and to amend the latter.- For , the more critically truth is ex- amined , the ...
... appear to the interefts of truth , and hurtful to it's propagators , tend notwithstanding , perhaps , in the end , most effectually to advance the for- mer , and to amend the latter.- For , the more critically truth is ex- amined , the ...
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... appears to be not lefs abhorrent from common sense , than that man's would be , who , per- ceiving a gnat fixing on his hand , -fhould , -instead of removing the infect , -amputate the limb . There is one objection to the following work ...
... appears to be not lefs abhorrent from common sense , than that man's would be , who , per- ceiving a gnat fixing on his hand , -fhould , -instead of removing the infect , -amputate the limb . There is one objection to the following work ...
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... appear to him well founded , he will moft readily acknowledge to be true ; and thofe which fhall appear to him to be er- roneous , he propofes to take fome opportunity of refuting . The effu- fions of enmity , whether breathed forth in ...
... appear to him well founded , he will moft readily acknowledge to be true ; and thofe which fhall appear to him to be er- roneous , he propofes to take fome opportunity of refuting . The effu- fions of enmity , whether breathed forth in ...
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... appears to me , -to be the moft important prediction , in the whole facred Scriptures . A prophecy , how- ever , which , I do not fcruple to say , has been fo totally misunderstood by all former commentators , ( and I in- tend not by ...
... appears to me , -to be the moft important prediction , in the whole facred Scriptures . A prophecy , how- ever , which , I do not fcruple to say , has been fo totally misunderstood by all former commentators , ( and I in- tend not by ...
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... appears , that Jotham himself worshipped the true God , yet , we are told , " he " did not remove the high places ; " therefore , it seems extremely pro- bable , bable , that the united armies of Syria and of 22 LECTURE I.
... appears , that Jotham himself worshipped the true God , yet , we are told , " he " did not remove the high places ; " therefore , it seems extremely pro- bable , bable , that the united armies of Syria and of 22 LECTURE I.
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Page 7 - And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet ; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
Page 6 - And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
Page 8 - Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach, therein for us, and set a king in the mids't of it, even the son of Tabeal: Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Page 25 - Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. 7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
Page 15 - Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, 26 Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest...
Page 35 - Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God ; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12, But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.
Page xxxiii - Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was fpoken of the Lord by the prophet, faying, Behold, a Virgin fhall be with child, and fhall bring forth a Son, and they fhall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted, is, God with us.
Page 177 - And he faid unto them, How is it that ye fought me ? wift ye not that I muft be about my Father's bufinefs f And they underftood not the faying which he (pake unto them.
Page 33 - For he sacrificed unto the gods of 'Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me.
Page 16 - Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive : 27 For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed ; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.