Prospect: Or, View of the Moral World, 1. köideE. Palmer, 1803 |
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... bible system of re- ligion however has set the whole world a dreaming from the days of the prophets down to the present time . The old men still continue to dream dreams and the young men to see visions - yes , and old women and young ...
... bible system of re- ligion however has set the whole world a dreaming from the days of the prophets down to the present time . The old men still continue to dream dreams and the young men to see visions - yes , and old women and young ...
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... bible system of religion were ignorant of the laws of nature - they judged solely by exter- nal appearance , and the common phenomena of the physical world became the basis of their decision . The sun appear- ed to rise and set of ...
... bible system of religion were ignorant of the laws of nature - they judged solely by exter- nal appearance , and the common phenomena of the physical world became the basis of their decision . The sun appear- ed to rise and set of ...
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... bible reads easy if we consi- der God one , Jesus the son of God , and the Holy Ghost the influence of God . But this would spoil trade , the scrip- tures would become plain and easy , and a learned priesthood would be unnecessary to ...
... bible reads easy if we consi- der God one , Jesus the son of God , and the Holy Ghost the influence of God . But this would spoil trade , the scrip- tures would become plain and easy , and a learned priesthood would be unnecessary to ...
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... we shall have occasion to observe a thousand times before we get through with the old testament , that this bible God of infinite knowledge , is : frequently represented as meeting unexpectedly with things and events PROSPECT, ...
... we shall have occasion to observe a thousand times before we get through with the old testament , that this bible God of infinite knowledge , is : frequently represented as meeting unexpectedly with things and events PROSPECT, ...
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... bible says , that we were created of the coarse unpurified dust of the ground . But on the contrary that we are now and all our progenitors must necessarily have been composed of the purest essence and most refined particles of matter ...
... bible says , that we were created of the coarse unpurified dust of the ground . But on the contrary that we are now and all our progenitors must necessarily have been composed of the purest essence and most refined particles of matter ...
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Page 122 - I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 126 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 149 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 126 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Page 105 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud : And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 149 - And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Page 132 - THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam; in the day when they were created.
Page 143 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Page 97 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 105 - And God said,' This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.