The Consistency of the Whole Scheme of Revelation with Itself and with Human ReasonJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 267 pages |
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... circumstances of human nature would seem to be more completely established by experience than that contained in the Scriptural aphorism , that the heart of man is evil from his youth . This evil tendency is conspicuous , 14 CONSISTENCY ...
... circumstances of human nature would seem to be more completely established by experience than that contained in the Scriptural aphorism , that the heart of man is evil from his youth . This evil tendency is conspicuous , 14 CONSISTENCY ...
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... circumstance that the accutest understandings and the most exquisitely attempered dispositions are most disposed to its influence . We have only to feel it in order to be unanswerably convinced of its Divine origin . The sensations thus ...
... circumstance that the accutest understandings and the most exquisitely attempered dispositions are most disposed to its influence . We have only to feel it in order to be unanswerably convinced of its Divine origin . The sensations thus ...
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... circumstances become favourable for its developement . Now , there assuredly can be no doubt which of these two dissim- ilar states is most worthy of our approbation , and most accordant with the presumed wisdom of Him who placed us in ...
... circumstances become favourable for its developement . Now , there assuredly can be no doubt which of these two dissim- ilar states is most worthy of our approbation , and most accordant with the presumed wisdom of Him who placed us in ...
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... circumstances of nature , it follows as a matter of course , that some one modi- fication of doctrine must be not only superior to all others , but , as truth is self - consistent and immutable , must be exclusive of all others : that ...
... circumstances of nature , it follows as a matter of course , that some one modi- fication of doctrine must be not only superior to all others , but , as truth is self - consistent and immutable , must be exclusive of all others : that ...
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... circumstances , would remain for our intellectual powers to perform in their own proper department , would be to judge of the evidence of such revelation as that now supposed , by the same rules of probability derived from their really ...
... circumstances , would remain for our intellectual powers to perform in their own proper department , would be to judge of the evidence of such revelation as that now supposed , by the same rules of probability derived from their really ...
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Page 89 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 60 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree -of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 91 - Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
Page 141 - And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish ; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Page 244 - They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Page 91 - ... thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing. When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 88 - Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them ; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 154 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the LORD'S : and he is the governor among the nations.
Page 95 - Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Page 124 - And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil ? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil ? offer it now unto thy governor ; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person ? saith the Lord of hosts.