The Christian Observatory, Volume 3Woodbridge, Moore & Company, 1849 - Christianity |
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... revelation to the soul , of a particular fact not contained in the Word of God ; so that the knowledge of the fact is not a matter of inference from some- thing else , but is immediate and direct . Thus , if the fact of the certainty of ...
... revelation to the soul , of a particular fact not contained in the Word of God ; so that the knowledge of the fact is not a matter of inference from some- thing else , but is immediate and direct . Thus , if the fact of the certainty of ...
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... revelation of this fact from God himself . In this respect it coincides with the various delusive theories of an ... revelation . And the effect of claiming a direct revelation to the mind of 32 THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT .
... revelation of this fact from God himself . In this respect it coincides with the various delusive theories of an ... revelation . And the effect of claiming a direct revelation to the mind of 32 THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT .
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... revelation , independent of that Word . No person now living , can find it revealed in the Word of God , that he is in fact pardoned ; and this is the very reason of the proneness of anxious minds to resort to this theory of the direct ...
... revelation , independent of that Word . No person now living , can find it revealed in the Word of God , that he is in fact pardoned ; and this is the very reason of the proneness of anxious minds to resort to this theory of the direct ...
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... revelation , under the pretext that the mind is not to be bound down to the dead letter of old documents . On the other hand , God communes with us through his Word , and it is his purpose so to elevate the mind , that it may come into ...
... revelation , under the pretext that the mind is not to be bound down to the dead letter of old documents . On the other hand , God communes with us through his Word , and it is his purpose so to elevate the mind , that it may come into ...
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... revelation of the Son of God , to defeat his enemies , and to establish his own kingdom on earth . The great ends of the existing dispensation , on this view , are to manifest the character and rights of God as a ruler , and the ...
... revelation of the Son of God , to defeat his enemies , and to establish his own kingdom on earth . The great ends of the existing dispensation , on this view , are to manifest the character and rights of God as a ruler , and the ...
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Page 281 - 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 357 - If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Page 135 - For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low...
Page 424 - God, of one substance with the Father, took man's nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, of her substance : so that two whole and perfect natures — that is to say, the Godhead and Manhood — were joined together in one Person, never to be divided ; whereof is one Christ, very God and very Man...
Page 379 - The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made : in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Page 414 - For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul ; thou must be brought before Caesar ; and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
Page 257 - THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life ; (for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us...
Page 223 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Page 489 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Page 267 - For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them; but they understood not.