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... was impossible that those books should have been received as the books of
Moses , in that age wherein they may have been supposed to have been first
invented . Why ? Because they speak of themselves as delivered by Moses , and
kept ...
... was impossible that those books should have been received as the books of
Moses , in that age wherein they may have been supposed to have been first
invented . Why ? Because they speak of themselves as delivered by Moses , and
kept ...
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There are several other topics , from whence the truth of the Christian religion is
evinced to all who will judge by reason , . and give themselves leave to consider .
. As the improbability that ten or twelve poor illiterate fishermen should form a ...
There are several other topics , from whence the truth of the Christian religion is
evinced to all who will judge by reason , . and give themselves leave to consider .
. As the improbability that ten or twelve poor illiterate fishermen should form a ...
Page 68
... high opinion of themselves , to the disparagement of others , and even to break
the order and peace of the church , by advancing themselves above their
superiore thinking none superior to themselves . . . The great Apostle of the
Gentiles ...
... high opinion of themselves , to the disparagement of others , and even to break
the order and peace of the church , by advancing themselves above their
superiore thinking none superior to themselves . . . The great Apostle of the
Gentiles ...
Page 69
and therefore refused to submit themselves to those who were their superiors in
the church ( who perhaps had not such gifts as they had ) but set up for
themselves , and drew parties after them , who were charmed with their
extraordinary gifts ...
and therefore refused to submit themselves to those who were their superiors in
the church ( who perhaps had not such gifts as they had ) but set up for
themselves , and drew parties after them , who were charmed with their
extraordinary gifts ...
Page 315
... God to depute men to ad in his name , and be ministerial towards the salvation
of others ; and to lay a neceffity upon his creatures of qualifying themselves for
his favour , and receiving his graces by the hands and intervention of mere men .
... God to depute men to ad in his name , and be ministerial towards the salvation
of others ; and to lay a neceffity upon his creatures of qualifying themselves for
his favour , and receiving his graces by the hands and intervention of mere men .
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Page 427 - 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 14 - 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 214 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 21 - For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.
Page 277 - ... should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is...
Page 225 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 215 - Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own Blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach.
Page 243 - For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not ; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Page 214 - Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Page 277 - ... the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
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| Title | The Scholar Armed Against the Errors of the Time, Or, A Collection of Tracts on the Principles and Evidences of Christianity, the Constitution of the Church, and the Authority of Civil Government, Volume 1 The Scholar Armed Against the Errors of the Time, Or, A Collection of Tracts on the Principles and Evidences of Christianity, the Constitution of the Church, and the Authority of Civil Government, William Jones |
| Contributor | William Jones |
| Publisher | Society for the Reformation of Principles, 1800 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 17 Jan 2008 |
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