The Task of To-dayJ. Watson, 1852 - 144 pages |
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... writers eminently qualified by their talents , wit , and learning for the task of fighting the battle of their faith against the Grecian and Roman philosophers . The ancient religion was long defended by the Roman government as a ...
... writers eminently qualified by their talents , wit , and learning for the task of fighting the battle of their faith against the Grecian and Roman philosophers . The ancient religion was long defended by the Roman government as a ...
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... writer in favour of that detestable doctrine , the justice and expediency of torturing and killing heretics ; but the other still more abominable and dangerous error was of much more ancient origin . " In the second century , " says ...
... writer in favour of that detestable doctrine , the justice and expediency of torturing and killing heretics ; but the other still more abominable and dangerous error was of much more ancient origin . " In the second century , " says ...
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... writers of Christian Evidences , who have appealed to reason and controversy since the Protestant Reformation first claimed for man the right of forming independent opinions on religious subjects . * Barbeyrac Traité de Morale des Péres ...
... writers of Christian Evidences , who have appealed to reason and controversy since the Protestant Reformation first claimed for man the right of forming independent opinions on religious subjects . * Barbeyrac Traité de Morale des Péres ...
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... writers of various sects . * And yet these believers of incon- gruous creeds will allow that the consciences of men of any dif- ferent denomination have often led them astray , and that the belief in the inspiration of the Holy Ghost ...
... writers of various sects . * And yet these believers of incon- gruous creeds will allow that the consciences of men of any dif- ferent denomination have often led them astray , and that the belief in the inspiration of the Holy Ghost ...
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... worked for an obviously important purpose : but they are not essential , and in general are not insisted on by later writers . They are , in fact , irrelevant to the argument . 22 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ARGUMENT . in the Bible ,
... worked for an obviously important purpose : but they are not essential , and in general are not insisted on by later writers . They are , in fact , irrelevant to the argument . 22 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ARGUMENT . in the Bible ,
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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.