Reasons for the Hope that is in Us: A Series of Essays on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, the Immortality of the Soul, and Other Important Subjects, Adapted to the Understanding of Young PersonsH. Constable, 1831 - 263 pages |
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... admit . If , therefore , our enquirer must stop short in his progress somewhere , it is natural that he should do so at the first step of it ; and infer , that the great Being upon whom his idea had at first rested as the Creator , was ...
... admit . If , therefore , our enquirer must stop short in his progress somewhere , it is natural that he should do so at the first step of it ; and infer , that the great Being upon whom his idea had at first rested as the Creator , was ...
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... PARTICULAR STYLE OF THOSE WRITINGS . My bounds will not admit of my going deeply into this source of evidence ; but surely the delightful sim- plicity of the historical , and the sublimity of many REVEALED RELIGION . 61.
... PARTICULAR STYLE OF THOSE WRITINGS . My bounds will not admit of my going deeply into this source of evidence ; but surely the delightful sim- plicity of the historical , and the sublimity of many REVEALED RELIGION . 61.
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... admit my being more full on this subject , or to add any thing further , than make references to a few of those texts where the most satisfactory predictions are to be found . Thus it was foretold , that our Savi- our should be born of ...
... admit my being more full on this subject , or to add any thing further , than make references to a few of those texts where the most satisfactory predictions are to be found . Thus it was foretold , that our Savi- our should be born of ...
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... admitting such agency possible ) the virtuous precepts of the gospel , and its blessed and happy tendency , must completely refute . Among those writers to whom I have now alluded , were Hierocles , Porphyry , and Julian the apostate ...
... admitting such agency possible ) the virtuous precepts of the gospel , and its blessed and happy tendency , must completely refute . Among those writers to whom I have now alluded , were Hierocles , Porphyry , and Julian the apostate ...
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... admit . Though , on the first mention of these , they may appear almost incredible , yet , on enquiry , not only the probabilities against them speedily wear away , but the presumptions for them arise most abundantly , on our observing ...
... admit . Though , on the first mention of these , they may appear almost incredible , yet , on enquiry , not only the probabilities against them speedily wear away , but the presumptions for them arise most abundantly , on our observing ...
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Page 78 - They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be : that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots.
Page 109 - As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you : continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Page 132 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 147 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Page 161 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 48 - I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 46 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Page 30 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 190 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 216 - ... by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects, which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages of society than that in which it was introduced, to wants of human nature not then developed, seems to me very striking. The religion bears the marks of having come from a being who perfectly understood the human mind, and had power to provide for its progress. This feature of Christianity is of the nature of prophecy. It was an anticipation of future...