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... mean to pass any censure on those who are engaged in controversy : but most persons , I imagine , will admit that the prevailing tendency is rather towards an excess than a deficiency of polemical writing ; and that , even when ...
... mean to pass any censure on those who are engaged in controversy : but most persons , I imagine , will admit that the prevailing tendency is rather towards an excess than a deficiency of polemical writing ; and that , even when ...
... mean to appeal to any as of deci- sive authority , or to adopt them as guides . Some of them may be such as to create more or less of a presumption in favour of their opinions till satisfactorily refuted . Others may supply valuable ...
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... mean , not as a matter of curious speculation , and interesting conjec- ture , but of general , and well - grounded , and practical belief ; brought to light , not as an ingenious and pleasing theory , but as an esta- blished truth ...
... mean , not as a matter of curious speculation , and interesting conjec- ture , but of general , and well - grounded , and practical belief ; brought to light , not as an ingenious and pleasing theory , but as an esta- blished truth ...
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... means easy to determine on sufficient evidence . In those of modern times it is also difficult , if not impossible , to decide , whether , and to what degree , some parts of their religion may have been derived , through a remote and ...
... means easy to determine on sufficient evidence . In those of modern times it is also difficult , if not impossible , to decide , whether , and to what degree , some parts of their religion may have been derived , through a remote and ...
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... means confined to the most vile and worthless of the community ; for he complains of a general and permanent depravation of morals , which dated its origin from this calamity . Nor again does the description apply to such only as had ...
... means confined to the most vile and worthless of the community ; for he complains of a general and permanent depravation of morals , which dated its origin from this calamity . Nor again does the description apply to such only as had ...
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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.