Theological Institutes: Or, A View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals and Institutions of Christianity, Volume 1G. Lane & C. B. Tippett, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1848 - Apologetics |
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... light and the eye which is formed to receive its rays . But as man is not carried to this course of action by physical impulse or necessity ; as moral conduct supposes choice and therefore instruc tion , and the persuasion of motives ...
... light and the eye which is formed to receive its rays . But as man is not carried to this course of action by physical impulse or necessity ; as moral conduct supposes choice and therefore instruc tion , and the persuasion of motives ...
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... light of those revelations , confessed them- selves unable to come to any satisfactory conclusion . The doubts of Socrates , who expressed himself the most hopefully of any on the subject of a future life , are well known ; and Cicero ...
... light of those revelations , confessed them- selves unable to come to any satisfactory conclusion . The doubts of Socrates , who expressed himself the most hopefully of any on the subject of a future life , are well known ; and Cicero ...
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... light by the efforts of men of superior minds , were within the compass of ordinary understandings , because , after they were revealed by those who made the discovery , they instantly commanded the assent of almost all to whom they ...
... light by the efforts of men of superior minds , were within the compass of ordinary understandings , because , after they were revealed by those who made the discovery , they instantly commanded the assent of almost all to whom they ...
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... light of revelation has not spread , absurd and destructive to morals as this notion is , it very extensively prevails . The opinion that the human soul is a part of God , enclosed for a short time in matter , but still a portion of his ...
... light of revelation has not spread , absurd and destructive to morals as this notion is , it very extensively prevails . The opinion that the human soul is a part of God , enclosed for a short time in matter , but still a portion of his ...
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... light , could not maintain it in its elevation . But it cannot even be admitted , that the truth which occasionally breaks forth in their works was the discovery of their own powers . There is much evidence to show , that they were ...
... light , could not maintain it in its elevation . But it cannot even be admitted , that the truth which occasionally breaks forth in their works was the discovery of their own powers . There is much evidence to show , that they were ...
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Page 504 - And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 502 - I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Page 593 - Jesus heard that they had cast him out ; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
Page 613 - THE Son, which is the Word of the Father, begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal 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 591 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 537 - Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Page 591 - Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Page 596 - And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee : for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Page 634 - And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus. And finding certain disciples, he said unto them ; Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed ? And they said unto him; We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
Page 464 - And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them.