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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... observation on the subject - The book called Fleta is anonymous ; but it is not on that account without authority . - Domesday book is anonymous , and was written above feven hundred years ago ; yet our courts of law do not hold it to ...
... observation on the subject - The book called Fleta is anonymous ; but it is not on that account without authority . - Domesday book is anonymous , and was written above feven hundred years ago ; yet our courts of law do not hold it to ...
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... observations fuch particularities as are best calculated to render , if poffible , the prophets odious or ridiculous in the eyes of your readers . You confound prophets with poets and muficians : I would diftinguifh them thus ; many ...
... observations fuch particularities as are best calculated to render , if poffible , the prophets odious or ridiculous in the eyes of your readers . You confound prophets with poets and muficians : I would diftinguifh them thus ; many ...
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... observe , fay nothing about this application , nor about the fealing of the stone , nor the guard , nor the watch , and according to these accounts there were none . ' -This , Sir , I deny . The other books do not fay that there were ...
... observe , fay nothing about this application , nor about the fealing of the stone , nor the guard , nor the watch , and according to these accounts there were none . ' -This , Sir , I deny . The other books do not fay that there were ...
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... observe , are never good moral evidences of any doctrine they preach . Read , Sir , Lord Lyttleton's obfervations on the converfion and apostleship of St. Paul ; and I think you will be convinced of the contrary . That ele- gant writer ...
... observe , are never good moral evidences of any doctrine they preach . Read , Sir , Lord Lyttleton's obfervations on the converfion and apostleship of St. Paul ; and I think you will be convinced of the contrary . That ele- gant writer ...
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... observations in the following man- ner : - " Should the Bible ( meaning , as I have be- fore remarked , the Old Testament ) and Teftament hereafter fall , it is not I that have been the occa- fion " You look , I think , upon your ...
... observations in the following man- ner : - " Should the Bible ( meaning , as I have be- fore remarked , the Old Testament ) and Teftament hereafter fall , it is not I that have been the occa- fion " You look , I think , upon your ...
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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.