The early progress of the gospel: in 8 sermons |
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... thought to pluck up the new religion by the roots , they were only instrumental in causing it to shoot forth more abundantly . The little commu- nity of believers at Jerusalem was indeed broken up , and for a time dispersed . But Acts ...
... thought to pluck up the new religion by the roots , they were only instrumental in causing it to shoot forth more abundantly . The little commu- nity of believers at Jerusalem was indeed broken up , and for a time dispersed . But Acts ...
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... thought of it will restrain us from attempting to define with any thing like precision , the effects of those other causes of which we propose to speak . Our subject , therefore , is one which we cannot exhaust ; for after our closest ...
... thought of it will restrain us from attempting to define with any thing like precision , the effects of those other causes of which we propose to speak . Our subject , therefore , is one which we cannot exhaust ; for after our closest ...
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... thought of our soul is from our bodily eye . What we are able to observe , is the machinery by which he acts ; the agencies and appliances , the proofs and evidences , which he employs according to his good pleasure . These are , indeed ...
... thought of our soul is from our bodily eye . What we are able to observe , is the machinery by which he acts ; the agencies and appliances , the proofs and evidences , which he employs according to his good pleasure . These are , indeed ...
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... thoughts of men , restoring the dead to life . Doubtless these mighty works are to be regarded as the tokens of his boundless love and compas- sion for the children of men . But they also 28 THE EFFECT OF THE MIRACLES [ LECT . II .
... thoughts of men , restoring the dead to life . Doubtless these mighty works are to be regarded as the tokens of his boundless love and compas- sion for the children of men . But they also 28 THE EFFECT OF THE MIRACLES [ LECT . II .
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... thought that the ocular demonstration which he thus afforded , would have superseded the necessity of any other proof , and would have been in itself irre- sistible . How then were his miracles received , and what conviction did they ...
... thought that the ocular demonstration which he thus afforded , would have superseded the necessity of any other proof , and would have been in itself irre- sistible . How then were his miracles received , and what conviction did they ...
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Page 168 - I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil : and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars : and hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Page 161 - In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so. Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Page 190 - But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Page 55 - Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures ; and said unto them ; Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Page 156 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live, are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Page 53 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.