The age of the great patriarchs from Adam to Jacob, Volume 1Sunday School Union, 1880 - Bible |
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... revelation is given to us . The work will be found liberal and generous in the treatment of all questions raised by modern science , but conservative of every great and fundamental principle of our Divinely - given religion . It is more ...
... revelation is given to us . The work will be found liberal and generous in the treatment of all questions raised by modern science , but conservative of every great and fundamental principle of our Divinely - given religion . It is more ...
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... revelation that Jehovah should be apprehended as the One and only Jehovah , the God . He could not make this impression so real and only God . so sure in any other way as he could by taking human history from its very beginning down to ...
... revelation that Jehovah should be apprehended as the One and only Jehovah , the God . He could not make this impression so real and only God . so sure in any other way as he could by taking human history from its very beginning down to ...
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... Revelation through human necessary . For the purpose of His revelation God may use language . every kind of agency by which He can influence man . and Authorities . But if He has been pleased to. CHAPTER HAPTER II . BOOK INSPIRATION ...
... Revelation through human necessary . For the purpose of His revelation God may use language . every kind of agency by which He can influence man . and Authorities . But if He has been pleased to. CHAPTER HAPTER II . BOOK INSPIRATION ...
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... revelation and preservation of God's will . We should be helped if we would keep the term Inspiration to revelation by means of human language . What inspiration is . not a perfect medium . But much follows if we see clearly that God ...
... revelation and preservation of God's will . We should be helped if we would keep the term Inspiration to revelation by means of human language . What inspiration is . not a perfect medium . But much follows if we see clearly that God ...
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... revelation . how it helps to explain the various forms in which God has revealed Himself in different ages . It has always been in precise adaptation to the faculties , culture , and associations of the age ; and the poetical and ...
... revelation . how it helps to explain the various forms in which God has revealed Himself in different ages . It has always been in precise adaptation to the faculties , culture , and associations of the age ; and the poetical and ...
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Page 27 - What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...
Page 81 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 264 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, "of whom it was said, 'That in Isaac shall thy seed be called/ "accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 115 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
Page 74 - We could not choose but look on still ; Since there is no place so alone The which he doth not fill. Sundays the pillars are, On which heaven's palace arched lies : The other days fill up the spare And hollow room with vanities. They are the fruitful beds and borders In God's rich garden : that is bare Which parts their ranks and orders.
Page 71 - But although the night apparently equalizes the circulation well, yet it does not sufficiently restore its balance for the attainment of a long life. Hence one day in seven, by the bounty of Providence, is thrown in as a day of compensation, to perfect, by its repose, the animal system.
Page 148 - Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Page 244 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Page 42 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
Page 77 - Droop not though shame, sin, and anguish are round thee ; Bravely fling off the cold chain that hath bound thee, Look to yon pure heaven smiling beyond thee ; Rest not content in thy darkness — a clod. Work for some good, be it ever so slowly ; Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly ; Labor ! all labor is noble and holy ; Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.