Works of the Rev. Robert Hall ...: With a Brief Memoir and a Sketch of His Literary Character, Volume 2Holdsworth and Ball, 1831 |
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... suppose what is absurd and impossible . 2. Whatever exists of itself , and consequently from all eternity , can never cease to exist , and must be perfectly independent of every other being , with respect to existence , and the manner ...
... suppose what is absurd and impossible . 2. Whatever exists of itself , and consequently from all eternity , can never cease to exist , and must be perfectly independent of every other being , with respect to existence , and the manner ...
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... suppose that the power of remembering , of reasoning , of judging , should arise from that , as a cause . It is , plainly , just as possible that light should spring from darkness as a cause , as that which is in- capable of thought ...
... suppose that the power of remembering , of reasoning , of judging , should arise from that , as a cause . It is , plainly , just as possible that light should spring from darkness as a cause , as that which is in- capable of thought ...
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... suppose in general that the words Satan , and Devil , are used as a prosopopeia , or personification , though what they are intended to personify they cannot agree [ about ] . Sometimes they are supposed to personify evil in the ...
... suppose in general that the words Satan , and Devil , are used as a prosopopeia , or personification , though what they are intended to personify they cannot agree [ about ] . Sometimes they are supposed to personify evil in the ...
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... suppose that the purport of this member of the sentence is to assert , that though our Lord was possessed of miraculous power , by which he might have drawn to himself that homage which is only due to the Supreme Being , yet he declined ...
... suppose that the purport of this member of the sentence is to assert , that though our Lord was possessed of miraculous power , by which he might have drawn to himself that homage which is only due to the Supreme Being , yet he declined ...
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... suppose that our Saviour possessed , in the first instance , some great and extraordinary distinction ; that , in the execution of his commission , from motives of pure benevolence , he submitted to a state of great com- parative ...
... suppose that our Saviour possessed , in the first instance , some great and extraordinary distinction ; that , in the execution of his commission , from motives of pure benevolence , he submitted to a state of great com- parative ...
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Page 29 - Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich.
Page 136 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 173 - By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand ; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive : for this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed ; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 362 - And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled...
Page 509 - But God's ways are not as our ways ; nor his thoughts as our thoughts.
Page 309 - Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles ; how much more their fulness?
Page 203 - And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
Page 230 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 302 - Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, 'whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
Page 280 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...