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... mortal existence , that if something of the kind were not to be found in Scripture , the omission might be almost enough to make it probable that our re- ligion did not come from God . Yet it has been the endeavour of many specious ...
... mortal existence , that if something of the kind were not to be found in Scripture , the omission might be almost enough to make it probable that our re- ligion did not come from God . Yet it has been the endeavour of many specious ...
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... mortal dangers which hover in every breeze and lurk in every thicket ? ) how many are there which may be traced to guilty violence , or to equally guilty indulgence , to the actions of our enemies , our progenitors , or ourselves , ac ...
... mortal dangers which hover in every breeze and lurk in every thicket ? ) how many are there which may be traced to guilty violence , or to equally guilty indulgence , to the actions of our enemies , our progenitors , or ourselves , ac ...
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... mortal pro- tectors of the Church , or the mortal invaders of the Roman empire are supposed to be allegorically de- scribed as angels engaged in the execution of God's judgements . The plagues and diseases which befel the Egyptians ...
... mortal pro- tectors of the Church , or the mortal invaders of the Roman empire are supposed to be allegorically de- scribed as angels engaged in the execution of God's judgements . The plagues and diseases which befel the Egyptians ...
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... mortal king which , however they were adapted to the prejudices of a wild and ignorant race , are incon- sistent with the more enlarged ideas which Chris- tians should entertain of His nature . " 66 Even " those visions of angels " to ...
... mortal king which , however they were adapted to the prejudices of a wild and ignorant race , are incon- sistent with the more enlarged ideas which Chris- tians should entertain of His nature . " 66 Even " those visions of angels " to ...
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... mortal eyes , it would be , perhaps , enough to answer , that as we know nothing , or next to nothing , of the na- ture of these celestial strangers , it is impossible for us to determine whether they are devoid of any appropriate form ...
... mortal eyes , it would be , perhaps , enough to answer , that as we know nothing , or next to nothing , of the na- ture of these celestial strangers , it is impossible for us to determine whether they are devoid of any appropriate form ...
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Page 138 - if thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! But now they are hid from thine eyes! For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee, because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation
Page 5 - 18,19. Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you, therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever. 275
Page 4 - Oxford, 1818, and at Lincoln's Inn, 1822.] EPHES. vi. 11, 12. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and
Page 156 - in which the best and wisest of mankind have, in imitation of the Apostles, esteemed it a glory and happiness to endure hardship, contempt, and martyrdom ; that work which was the subject of the latest charge given by the Lord Jesus to His followers, " Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father,
Page 4 - And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM ; and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, IAM hath sent me unto you
Page 4 - world, against spiritual wickedness in high places 64 SERMON V. ON THE INSPIRATION OF THE PENTATEUCH. [Preached at Lincoln's Inn, November 10, 1822.] EXODUS iii. 14. And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM ; and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children
Page 19 - historian or a philosopher, is found to perform its revolutions with an uniformity most mysterious and terrible; of which the machinery is too vast to be discomposed for the sake of such worms as we are, and of which the consequences must, therefore, happen indifferently " to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not
Page 79 - Do our antagonists believe this history ? What manuscript, what authority, what ecclesiastical tradition can they plead for rejecting it from the place which it holds in the writings of three out of the four evangelists ? Is the restoration of Lazarus to life less wonderful in itself, or more credibly attested ? Or,
Page 63 - Archbishop Sharpe's Sermons, v. 3. p. 72. " When we are speaking of the devil, we are not to understand any one particular being, or any one particular evil spirit, but the whole aggregate or company of evil spirits, which inhabit round about us in the lower regions of
Page 229 - Mousa, (recurring to Gen. x. 27) at Hadoram, now called Samar by the Arabs, at Usal, now called Sanaa by the Arabs, and (Gen. x. 30) at Mesha, now called Mecca, in the