The Task of To-dayJ. Watson, 1852 - 144 pages |
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... Apostles were bad men , what could have induced them to take such pains to promote virtue , and to inculcate doc- trines which condemn liars and impostors to hell ? and if they were good men , they would not have travelled all over the ...
... Apostles were bad men , what could have induced them to take such pains to promote virtue , and to inculcate doc- trines which condemn liars and impostors to hell ? and if they were good men , they would not have travelled all over the ...
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... Apostles and early Christians , who were human , and who were educated in many foolish superstitions and false principles , could not also for the glory of God , and for the propagation of doctrines in which they firmly believed , tell ...
... Apostles and early Christians , who were human , and who were educated in many foolish superstitions and false principles , could not also for the glory of God , and for the propagation of doctrines in which they firmly believed , tell ...
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... Apostles , which gave a divine sanction to their miraculous narrations , would doubtless have induced some of them to persist in the same story under torture or threats of death , if it had been necessary , but it was not so . This was ...
... Apostles , which gave a divine sanction to their miraculous narrations , would doubtless have induced some of them to persist in the same story under torture or threats of death , if it had been necessary , but it was not so . This was ...
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... Apostles and their immediate successors did not trust to the cir- culation of the Scriptures for the propagation of the faith ; and copies were therefore not made for that purpose . Manuscript copies cannot be multiplied without ...
... Apostles and their immediate successors did not trust to the cir- culation of the Scriptures for the propagation of the faith ; and copies were therefore not made for that purpose . Manuscript copies cannot be multiplied without ...
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... Apostles and the Christians of the apostolic age . Protestantism was certainly an improvement on Papal Chris- tianity as far as liberty , humanity , and honesty are concerned . The Reformation was a new dispensation , imperatively ...
... Apostles and the Christians of the apostolic age . Protestantism was certainly an improvement on Papal Chris- tianity as far as liberty , humanity , and honesty are concerned . The Reformation was a new dispensation , imperatively ...
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Page 71 - All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold, thy King cometh unto thee meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Page 83 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 46 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Page 73 - And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
Page 86 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 76 - Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
Page 104 - The wonder then turns on the great process, by which a man could grow to the immense intelligence which can know that there is no God. What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS attainment! This intelligence involves the very attributes of Divinity, while a God is denied. For unless this man is omnipresent, unless he is at this moment in every place in the universe, he cannot know but there may be in some place manifestations of a Deity, by which even lie would be overpowered. If he does not...
Page 86 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 45 - Did ye never read in the scriptures, •The stone which the builders rejected, The same is become the head of the corner: This is the Lord's doing, And it is marvellous in our eyes?
Page 39 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be Ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.