An Apology for the Bible: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of a Book Entitled The Age of Reason, Part the Second, Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous TheologyMessrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W. Jones, J. Rice, H. Fitzpatrick, N. Kelly, and G. Folingsby, 1796 - Bible - 146 pages |
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... learned and impartial men , be established ? -You will allow , that thousands of learned and impartial men , ( I speak not of priests , who , however , are , I truft , as learned and impar- tial as yourself , but of laymen of the moft ...
... learned and impartial men , be established ? -You will allow , that thousands of learned and impartial men , ( I speak not of priests , who , however , are , I truft , as learned and impar- tial as yourself , but of laymen of the moft ...
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... learned are in no danger of being infected by the poison of infidelity : they will excufe me , therefore , for having entered , as little as poffible , into deep difquifitions concerning the authenticity of the Bible . The subject has ...
... learned are in no danger of being infected by the poison of infidelity : they will excufe me , therefore , for having entered , as little as poffible , into deep difquifitions concerning the authenticity of the Bible . The subject has ...
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... learned jew , compofed these books , from public records , many years after the death of Mofes ? Will it follow that there was no truth in them ? According to my logic , it will only follow , that they are not genuine books ; every fact ...
... learned jew , compofed these books , from public records , many years after the death of Mofes ? Will it follow that there was no truth in them ? According to my logic , it will only follow , that they are not genuine books ; every fact ...
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... learned are di- vided in opinion concerning its origin ; fome con . tending , that it was fanctified from the creation of the world ; that it was obferved by the patriarchs be- fore the flood ; that it was neglected by the Ifraelites ...
... learned are di- vided in opinion concerning its origin ; fome con . tending , that it was fanctified from the creation of the world ; that it was obferved by the patriarchs be- fore the flood ; that it was neglected by the Ifraelites ...
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... importing that it contained things left out in other books ) was written . The learned have fhewn , that interpolations have happened to other books ; but thefe thefe infertions by other hands have never been con- fidered ( 28 )
... importing that it contained things left out in other books ) was written . The learned have fhewn , that interpolations have happened to other books ; but thefe thefe infertions by other hands have never been con- fidered ( 28 )
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Page 112 - Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
Page 106 - Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him; and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Page 83 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin : but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 95 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 107 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Page 18 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people : and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Page 99 - It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles. 11. And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
Page 70 - And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
Page 18 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 13 - A genuine book is that which was written by the person whose name it bears, as the author of it. An authentic book is that which relates matters of fact, as they really happened. A book may be genuine without being authentic ; and a book may be authentic, without being genuine.