The Diegesis: Being a Discovery of the Origin, Evidences and Early History of Christianity, Never Yet Before Or Elsewhere So Fully and Faithfully Set ForthA. Kneeland, 1834 - 440 pages |
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... Christians would wish their own religion to be judged .... The Pacific Age .... The genius of Paganism most tolerant and philosophical .... Vast difference between the philosophers and the vulgar .... The philosophers were Deists ...
... Christians would wish their own religion to be judged .... The Pacific Age .... The genius of Paganism most tolerant and philosophical .... Vast difference between the philosophers and the vulgar .... The philosophers were Deists ...
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... Christian religion is matter of most serious importance : it is so , if it be truth , because in that truth a law of faith and conduct measuring out to us a propriety of sentiment and action , which would otherwise not be incumbent upon ...
... Christian religion is matter of most serious importance : it is so , if it be truth , because in that truth a law of faith and conduct measuring out to us a propriety of sentiment and action , which would otherwise not be incumbent upon ...
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... Christian religion . Every argument that could show it to be a blessing to mankind , being true , must in like ... belief or unbelief can either be a virtue or a crime , or any man morally better or worse for belief or unbelief , is to ...
... Christian religion . Every argument that could show it to be a blessing to mankind , being true , must in like ... belief or unbelief can either be a virtue or a crime , or any man morally better or worse for belief or unbelief , is to ...
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... Christian religion , is to be understood the whole system of theology found in the Bible , as consisting of the two volumes of the Old and New Testament ; and as that system now is , and generally has been understood , by the many , or ...
... Christian religion , is to be understood the whole system of theology found in the Bible , as consisting of the two volumes of the Old and New Testament ; and as that system now is , and generally has been understood , by the many , or ...
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... Christian religion ; while the absence of a sufficient degree of evidence to render even these circumstances unquestionable , must , a fortiori , be fatal to the credibility of the still less credible circum- stances founded upon them ...
... Christian religion ; while the absence of a sufficient degree of evidence to render even these circumstances unquestionable , must , a fortiori , be fatal to the credibility of the still less credible circum- stances founded upon them ...
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Page 91 - For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb : and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men : and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it...
Page 106 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 87 - For I have received of the Lord, that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Page 261 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 100 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 186 - And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
Page 403 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its author; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 96 - And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue : Whom, when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
Page 107 - For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ, and no marvel ; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light ; therefore it is no great thing, if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness ; whose end shall be according to their works.
Page 257 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.