Sermons, on a Number of Connected Subjects: In which an Attempt is Made to Explain the Leading Principles of Revealed Religion; to Show Their Consistency, Reasonableness and Importance; and to Guard Them Against Dangerous Misconstructions and False Inferences, and Against the Specious Objections of Unbelievers |
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... appear consistent with reason , or we shall never make men rational nor real christians . The apostle , in this phrase , the foolishness of preaching , must be understood ironically ; or as speaking after the manner of unbelievers . He ...
... appear consistent with reason , or we shall never make men rational nor real christians . The apostle , in this phrase , the foolishness of preaching , must be understood ironically ; or as speaking after the manner of unbelievers . He ...
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... appear- ed despicable , no doubt , not only to the vulgar , who are captivated with parade and show , more than with solid substance ; but also to the great adepts in sci- ence , falsely so called . And as the apostolic manner of ...
... appear- ed despicable , no doubt , not only to the vulgar , who are captivated with parade and show , more than with solid substance ; but also to the great adepts in sci- ence , falsely so called . And as the apostolic manner of ...
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... appears to many , full of hard sayings , and of most palpable self - contradictions . In the doctrines of Christ and his apostles , these stumbling - blocks are not indeed now so sensibly perceived ; when people have been used to the ...
... appears to many , full of hard sayings , and of most palpable self - contradictions . In the doctrines of Christ and his apostles , these stumbling - blocks are not indeed now so sensibly perceived ; when people have been used to the ...
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... appears to be , that his nature is all benevolence . That every feeling of his heart arises from this ; and that all his works and ways are resolvable into this , as their source and centre ; their first cause , and last end . II . We ...
... appears to be , that his nature is all benevolence . That every feeling of his heart arises from this ; and that all his works and ways are resolvable into this , as their source and centre ; their first cause , and last end . II . We ...
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... appears to have been the opinion of holy men of old , who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost . Paul and Barnabas , exhorting the men of Lystra to turn from pagan idols , to serve the living God , that made heaven and earth ; who ...
... appears to have been the opinion of holy men of old , who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost . Paul and Barnabas , exhorting the men of Lystra to turn from pagan idols , to serve the living God , that made heaven and earth ; who ...
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Page 196 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 398 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 116 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil?
Page 394 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are...
Page 332 - Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole ; be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Page 55 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. " Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 362 - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me : And I give unto them eternal life ; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My father which gave them me is greater than all ; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Page 62 - See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 405 - Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Page 76 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.