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... doubts , how must these doubts have been heightened and increased , when they saw this very messenger , in a very short time , first ignominiously cast into prison , and after- wards barbarously murdered by a capricious tyrant , without ...
... doubts , how must these doubts have been heightened and increased , when they saw this very messenger , in a very short time , first ignominiously cast into prison , and after- wards barbarously murdered by a capricious tyrant , without ...
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... doubts , and uncertainties , we shall then be set free from that vanity to which all things below are subject : we shall then enjoy such a day as will be succeeded by no night ; such a summer as will never end . Jesus , the brightness ...
... doubts , and uncertainties , we shall then be set free from that vanity to which all things below are subject : we shall then enjoy such a day as will be succeeded by no night ; such a summer as will never end . Jesus , the brightness ...
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... doubt of his future existence . For to what purpose would it have been to have endued him with freedom of choice and strength of reason , if he were doomed to lie down in eternal insensibility with the beasts that perish ? Why should he ...
... doubt of his future existence . For to what purpose would it have been to have endued him with freedom of choice and strength of reason , if he were doomed to lie down in eternal insensibility with the beasts that perish ? Why should he ...
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... , and must stand or fall by the sentence of a future judg ment . But it may here perhaps be asked , if this doc- trine be so clear and evident to unassisted rea- son , doubts son , whence is it that we find so 40 SERMON XLVI .
... , and must stand or fall by the sentence of a future judg ment . But it may here perhaps be asked , if this doc- trine be so clear and evident to unassisted rea- son , doubts son , whence is it that we find so 40 SERMON XLVI .
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Samuel Carr. doubts son , whence is it that we find so many and so much uncertainty about it in the writings of many of the wisest men of antiquity ? I an- swer with St. Paul , that this was a punishment inflicted upon them by God for ...
Samuel Carr. doubts son , whence is it that we find so many and so much uncertainty about it in the writings of many of the wisest men of antiquity ? I an- swer with St. Paul , that this was a punishment inflicted upon them by God for ...
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Page 39 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 17 - For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Page 319 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 143 - The Lord hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Page 119 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? and if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 66 - And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 317 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...