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... human imagination . But if such be the nature of the evidence , one observation must now be made , and it must never be forgotten , not only by those who are at present sceptics , but by those , who , believers themselves , are uneasy ...
... human imagination . But if such be the nature of the evidence , one observation must now be made , and it must never be forgotten , not only by those who are at present sceptics , but by those , who , believers themselves , are uneasy ...
Page xi
... stimulate inquiry , teach humility , rebuke presump- tion , exercise faith , call forth many virtues of the human character , discipline the mind and the heart , and they are therefore not without their use PREFACE . xi.
... stimulate inquiry , teach humility , rebuke presump- tion , exercise faith , call forth many virtues of the human character , discipline the mind and the heart , and they are therefore not without their use PREFACE . xi.
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... human nature to expect them to be rea- sonable on such a subject as the evidences of religion . The opinions of a man , when young , if he is of superior genius , are often as tumul- tuous as are the waves of the ocean in a storm , and ...
... human nature to expect them to be rea- sonable on such a subject as the evidences of religion . The opinions of a man , when young , if he is of superior genius , are often as tumul- tuous as are the waves of the ocean in a storm , and ...
Page xx
... human mind , and in such men at least , it is always found ; their very first impulse is invariably to separate themselves from those they call the vulgar ; to soar above what they vote to be their prejudices and mistakes , their ...
... human mind , and in such men at least , it is always found ; their very first impulse is invariably to separate themselves from those they call the vulgar ; to soar above what they vote to be their prejudices and mistakes , their ...
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... human mind , and disturbing the empire of peace and goodwill among mankind . Voltaire was thus exasperated by the members of the Roman Catholic Church , till the abolition of Christianity became the passion of his life ; and c 2 PREFACE ...
... human mind , and disturbing the empire of peace and goodwill among mankind . Voltaire was thus exasperated by the members of the Roman Catholic Church , till the abolition of Christianity became the passion of his life ; and c 2 PREFACE ...
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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.