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Richard Whately. Scripture - accounts of sin " entering into the world , and death by sin ; " whereas the Scriptures leave us , with respect to the difficulty in ques- tion , just where they find us , and are manifestly not designed to ...
Richard Whately. Scripture - accounts of sin " entering into the world , and death by sin ; " whereas the Scriptures leave us , with respect to the difficulty in ques- tion , just where they find us , and are manifestly not designed to ...
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... " and as expecting that " it would , at the moment of our natural death , be dispersed ( as he expresses it ) like air or smoke , and cease altogether to exist , so that it would require no 24 Revelation of a future state . [ ESSAY I.
... " and as expecting that " it would , at the moment of our natural death , be dispersed ( as he expresses it ) like air or smoke , and cease altogether to exist , so that it would require no 24 Revelation of a future state . [ ESSAY I.
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... death , and can retain any thing of its powers and intelligence ; " - when we find this , I say , asserted , or rather alluded to , as notoriously the state of popular opinion , we can surely entertain but little doubt that the accounts ...
... death , and can retain any thing of its powers and intelligence ; " - when we find this , I say , asserted , or rather alluded to , as notoriously the state of popular opinion , we can surely entertain but little doubt that the accounts ...
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... death has separated them . We should be apt to say that such a one's body is here , and that he , properly the person himself , is departed to the other world ; but Homer uses the very opposite language in speaking of the heroes slain ...
... death has separated them . We should be apt to say that such a one's body is here , and that he , properly the person himself , is departed to the other world ; but Homer uses the very opposite language in speaking of the heroes slain ...
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... death impresses the most forcibly the thought of a future state on the minds of those who expect it his testimony , I say , as to their con- duct on such an occasion , must alone prove almost " Apostolical Fathers , " on the ground that ...
... death impresses the most forcibly the thought of a future state on the minds of those who expect it his testimony , I say , as to their con- duct on such an occasion , must alone prove almost " Apostolical Fathers , " on the ground that ...
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Page 167 - Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard, in that he feared...
Page 168 - For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Page 294 - And JESUS called a little child unto him, .and set him in the midst of them, and said, ' Verily I say unto you, Except ' ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall ' not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 249 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 123 - Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Page 147 - For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befal you in the latter days ; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Page 295 - Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Page 164 - Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Page 134 - And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
Page 132 - ... that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him : for he is thy life, and the length of thy days : that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.