The Dogmatic Faith: An Inquiry Into the Relation Subsisting Between Revelation and Dogma; in Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1867 on the Foundation of the Late Rev. John Bampton |
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... labours under three defects : - : - I. It transcends the proper sphere of conscience . As a judge of truth , the verdict of conscience can only be negative . Its sufficiency contradicted by facts . Not admitted between man xviii Analysis.
... labours under three defects : - : - I. It transcends the proper sphere of conscience . As a judge of truth , the verdict of conscience can only be negative . Its sufficiency contradicted by facts . Not admitted between man xviii Analysis.
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... a subordinate instrument of instruction over which the natural conscience rules supreme , as an all - sufficient and authoritative judge . But the argument will have a positive and affirmative side 18 [ LECT . The Faith and the Church.
... a subordinate instrument of instruction over which the natural conscience rules supreme , as an all - sufficient and authoritative judge . But the argument will have a positive and affirmative side 18 [ LECT . The Faith and the Church.
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... judge for ourselves what the Bible teaches . Does it teach perse- cution , or does it not ? If it does , then charge the fault upon the faith . But if it does not , charge the fault upon the men who misunderstood it . is now . That the ...
... judge for ourselves what the Bible teaches . Does it teach perse- cution , or does it not ? If it does , then charge the fault upon the faith . But if it does not , charge the fault upon the men who misunderstood it . is now . That the ...
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... judge the world in righteousness ? What more accordant with all human experience , both within the Church and without it , than that the establishment of Christianity by Constantine should have introduced Pagan elements into the ...
... judge the world in righteousness ? What more accordant with all human experience , both within the Church and without it , than that the establishment of Christianity by Constantine should have introduced Pagan elements into the ...
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... Judge of quick and dead . To Him give all the prophets witness , that through His name whosoever believeth in Him shall re- ceive remission of sins h . " Paul swells the strain of testi- mony : " The Gospel which was preached of me is ...
... Judge of quick and dead . To Him give all the prophets witness , that through His name whosoever believeth in Him shall re- ceive remission of sins h . " Paul swells the strain of testi- mony : " The Gospel which was preached of me is ...
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Page 189 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 240 - Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Page 26 - Now unto Him that is able to keep us from falling, and. to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy ; to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 137 - The Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many.
Page vi - Also I direct and appoint, that the eight Divinity Lecture Sermons shall be preached upon either of the following Subjects — to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and to confute all heretics and schismatics — upon the divine authority of the holy Scriptures — upon the authority of the writings of the primitive Fathers, as to the faith and practice of the primitive Church — • upon the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ — upon the Divinity of the Holy Ghost — upon the...
Page 41 - But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Page 19 - SCRIPTURES, &c. The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version, with the Text revised by a Collation of its Early and other Principal Editions...
Page v - Term, a Lecturer be yearly chosen by the Heads of Colleges only, and by no others, in the room adjoining to the PrintingHouse, between the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, to preach eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, the year following, at St. Mary's in Oxford, between the commencement of the last month in Lent Term, and the end of the third week in Act Term.
Page 248 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
Page 37 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.