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... , the inventions , and the fanaticifm of men , appears · in a very striking manner in the following ESSAY , An attentive perufal may enable the reader to difcriminate . The Character of God as delineated the New Teftament.
... , the inventions , and the fanaticifm of men , appears · in a very striking manner in the following ESSAY , An attentive perufal may enable the reader to difcriminate . The Character of God as delineated the New Teftament.
Page vi
... appear fuited to the occafion . As the Effay fhould fuit the mafs , as well as men of fcience , what may be called common Jenfe arguments , addreffed to the understanding and confcience of men who had the new Testament in their hands ...
... appear fuited to the occafion . As the Effay fhould fuit the mafs , as well as men of fcience , what may be called common Jenfe arguments , addreffed to the understanding and confcience of men who had the new Testament in their hands ...
Page vii
... appear formal ; but he thought they would render an Effay of this kind more diftinct ; and likewise that a person who would not venture on an undivided book , might be induced to read a fhort fection , and from one be led on to another ...
... appear formal ; but he thought they would render an Effay of this kind more diftinct ; and likewise that a person who would not venture on an undivided book , might be induced to read a fhort fection , and from one be led on to another ...
Page xi
... appear . Multitudes were thunderstruck , when they ob- ferved that the crop was Infidelity ; but it was just as natural a produce , as if hemlock had been fown , and a field of hemlock was raised to maturity . Nothing else could ...
... appear . Multitudes were thunderstruck , when they ob- ferved that the crop was Infidelity ; but it was just as natural a produce , as if hemlock had been fown , and a field of hemlock was raised to maturity . Nothing else could ...
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... appears to me that by being kept diftinct , the evidence of cach will be perceived with greater clearness , than if they were blended together in one effay . Both the writer and the reader will find many advantages from this arrangement ...
... appears to me that by being kept diftinct , the evidence of cach will be perceived with greater clearness , than if they were blended together in one effay . Both the writer and the reader will find many advantages from this arrangement ...
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Page 182 - Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 88 - Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned...
Page 89 - I have been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 235 - I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith : henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day : and not to me only, but to all them that love his appearing '
Page 21 - What pre-possession, what blindness must it be to compare the son of Sophronicus to the son of Mary ! What an infinite disproportion there is between them ? Socrates dying without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last ; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was any thing more than a vain sophist.
Page 27 - God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God...
Page 173 - Let her see him in his most retired privacies} let her follow him to the mount, and hear his devotions and supplications to God. Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and hear his heavenly discourse.
Page 155 - And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth : for it is not fit that he should live.
Page 60 - But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 118 - But I have greater witness than that of John : for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me.