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... Old and New Testament we have the miracles performed by the Saviour and by his apostles - we have the manner in which the religion was propagated among mankind - the impossibility , except on the supposition a 2 PREFACE .
... Old and New Testament we have the miracles performed by the Saviour and by his apostles - we have the manner in which the religion was propagated among mankind - the impossibility , except on the supposition a 2 PREFACE .
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... Old Testament and in the New , but the books are very different in their character . The Old Testament contains a history of the Jew- ish people , of a people in a most bar- barous state , and it is filled with a recital of their crimes ...
... Old Testament and in the New , but the books are very different in their character . The Old Testament contains a history of the Jew- ish people , of a people in a most bar- barous state , and it is filled with a recital of their crimes ...
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... Old Testament and the New . But , before we turn to these sacred volumes , two preliminary observations must be made , the better to prepare the mind for the proper consideration of them . The first is this ; that they who resort to ...
... Old Testament and the New . But , before we turn to these sacred volumes , two preliminary observations must be made , the better to prepare the mind for the proper consideration of them . The first is this ; that they who resort to ...
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... Old Testament , ( more par- ticularly , ) and do not find their expecta- tions realised ; they pronounce that the Book is unworthy of the great Creator of the world , inconsistent with these , his attributes , and that it cannot be ...
... Old Testament , ( more par- ticularly , ) and do not find their expecta- tions realised ; they pronounce that the Book is unworthy of the great Creator of the world , inconsistent with these , his attributes , and that it cannot be ...
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... Old Testament , nor the New - and it must therefore be observed , that when men of science and superior faculties turn from these books , as incon- sistent with the attributes of the Creator , they do not consider at the time , how much ...
... Old Testament , nor the New - and it must therefore be observed , that when men of science and superior faculties turn from these books , as incon- sistent with the attributes of the Creator , they do not consider at the time , how much ...
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Page 173 - LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. "And many people shall go and say, 'Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:' for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Page 114 - Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
Page 77 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands...
Page 147 - Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
Page 175 - And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day : 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Page 186 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Page 147 - But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
Page 369 - Him openly ; not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with Him after He rose from the dead.
Page 112 - Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant; and as a root out of a dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness ; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 103 - And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son.