An essay on the divine authority of the New Testament |
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... a fupplication to the Father of Lights , from whom cometh down every good and perfect gift ; that he would illumi- nate your understanding to perceive the truth ; and incline your heart to embrace it , wherever it ( 2 )
... a fupplication to the Father of Lights , from whom cometh down every good and perfect gift ; that he would illumi- nate your understanding to perceive the truth ; and incline your heart to embrace it , wherever it ( 2 )
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... perfect likeness of the original . Were this an abstract question , an answer might be more difficult , and lefs fatisfactory : but it is a queftion of fact , and the multitude of idolaters in every heathen land proclaims the neceffity ...
... perfect likeness of the original . Were this an abstract question , an answer might be more difficult , and lefs fatisfactory : but it is a queftion of fact , and the multitude of idolaters in every heathen land proclaims the neceffity ...
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... perfect , is an arduous task indeed . But the writers of the New Testament undertake it . Their volume may be called the book of God . He is introduced at the very beginning ; and he continues in our fight to the end . He appears in ...
... perfect , is an arduous task indeed . But the writers of the New Testament undertake it . Their volume may be called the book of God . He is introduced at the very beginning ; and he continues in our fight to the end . He appears in ...
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... perfect . The men of Judea and Galilee alone could delineate the character of God . They have done it fo well , that in the most polished countries . at the prefent time , none can fay , " You have for- gotten an attribute : we can ...
... perfect . The men of Judea and Galilee alone could delineate the character of God . They have done it fo well , that in the most polished countries . at the prefent time , none can fay , " You have for- gotten an attribute : we can ...
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... perfect rectitude and perfect goodness . In perfons of remarkable activity , who are con- ftantly engaged in one duty or another , and who are thereby thrown into fituations of difficulty and temptation , how hard is it to keep free ...
... perfect rectitude and perfect goodness . In perfons of remarkable activity , who are con- ftantly engaged in one duty or another , and who are thereby thrown into fituations of difficulty and temptation , how hard is it to keep free ...
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Page 182 - Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 88 - Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned...
Page 89 - I have been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 235 - I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith : henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day : and not to me only, but to all them that love his appearing '
Page 21 - What pre-possession, what blindness must it be to compare the son of Sophronicus to the son of Mary ! What an infinite disproportion there is between them ? Socrates dying without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last ; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was any thing more than a vain sophist.
Page 27 - God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God...
Page 173 - Let her see him in his most retired privacies} let her follow him to the mount, and hear his devotions and supplications to God. Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and hear his heavenly discourse.
Page 155 - And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth : for it is not fit that he should live.
Page 60 - But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 118 - But I have greater witness than that of John : for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me.