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... present edition ; adding also , in a few places , such further explanations and illustrations as appeared requisite , compressing such parts as would admit of it - and omitting whatever , either from its referring to local or tem ...
... present edition ; adding also , in a few places , such further explanations and illustrations as appeared requisite , compressing such parts as would admit of it - and omitting whatever , either from its referring to local or tem ...
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... present work . Bishop Warburton's " Divine Legation " is a work too well known to require that a dis- tinct reference should be made to it in every place in which I have availed myself of his learning and ingenuity . I can hardly be sus ...
... present work . Bishop Warburton's " Divine Legation " is a work too well known to require that a dis- tinct reference should be made to it in every place in which I have availed myself of his learning and ingenuity . I can hardly be sus ...
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... present state alone ; while every the most minute circumstance , that may concern the future life , like a seed from which some mighty tree is to spring , rises into immeasurable importance , as the 14 Revelation of a future state ...
... present state alone ; while every the most minute circumstance , that may concern the future life , like a seed from which some mighty tree is to spring , rises into immeasurable importance , as the 14 Revelation of a future state ...
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... present dwell on this inconsistency ; because as long as the notion remains unrefuted , that the doctrine of a future immortality could be known , and was known , in- dependently of the Gospel , any arguments which go to prove that the ...
... present dwell on this inconsistency ; because as long as the notion remains unrefuted , that the doctrine of a future immortality could be known , and was known , in- dependently of the Gospel , any arguments which go to prove that the ...
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... present inquiry in what degree the belief of a future state prevailed among the ancients ; and how far those who did entertain such belief were correct in their notions of it , and warranted in maintaining them : since it is plain ...
... present inquiry in what degree the belief of a future state prevailed among the ancients ; and how far those who did entertain such belief were correct in their notions of it , and warranted in maintaining them : since it is plain ...
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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.