Lock's Essay for the Understanding of St. Paul's Epistles, and Le Clerc on InspirationWells and Lilly, 1820 - 130 pages |
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... light that depends on it . Our minds are so weak and narrow , that they have need of all the helps and assist- ances that can be procured , to lay before them undisturbedly , the thread and cohe- rence of any discourse ; by which alone ...
... light that depends on it . Our minds are so weak and narrow , that they have need of all the helps and assist- ances that can be procured , to lay before them undisturbedly , the thread and cohe- rence of any discourse ; by which alone ...
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... light from expositors and commentators , is in a great part abat- ed ; and those who have most need of their help , can receive but little from them , and can have very little assurance of reach- ing the apostle's sense by what they ...
... light from expositors and commentators , is in a great part abat- ed ; and those who have most need of their help , can receive but little from them , and can have very little assurance of reach- ing the apostle's sense by what they ...
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... light , the second gave me more ; and so I persisted on reading constantly the whole epistle over at once , till I came to have a good general view of the apostle's main purpose in writing the epistle , the chief branches of his ...
... light , the second gave me more ; and so I persisted on reading constantly the whole epistle over at once , till I came to have a good general view of the apostle's main purpose in writing the epistle , the chief branches of his ...
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... light , rather than for calm , strong , coherent rea- sonings , that carried a thread of argument and consistency all through them . But this muttering of lazy , or ill dispos- ed readers , hindered me not from persisting in the course ...
... light , rather than for calm , strong , coherent rea- sonings , that carried a thread of argument and consistency all through them . But this muttering of lazy , or ill dispos- ed readers , hindered me not from persisting in the course ...
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... light of the gospel he had received from the fountain and father of light himself , who , I concluded , had not furnished him in this extraordinary manner , if all this plentiful stock of learning and illumina- The rence . tion had been ...
... light of the gospel he had received from the fountain and father of light himself , who , I concluded , had not furnished him in this extraordinary manner , if all this plentiful stock of learning and illumina- The rence . tion had been ...
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Page 65 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
Page 57 - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Page 55 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Page 103 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Page 92 - Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth : for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak : and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me ; for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Page 55 - Set thou a wicked man over him : and let Satan stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned : and let his prayer become sin.
Page 85 - For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles : but when they were come, ' he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
Page 73 - And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say: 12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Page 105 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
Page 105 - Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this...