Studies in the Christian EvidencesT. & T. Clark, 1889 - 396 pages |
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... THE CHRISTIAN BY EVIDENCES ALEXANDER MAIR , D.D = MORNINGSIDE , EDINBURGH . SECOND EDITION , REVISED AND ENLARGED . EDINBURGH T. & T. CLARK , 38 GEORGE STREET 1889 26 PREFACE . THIS book is not written primarily for 95260 STUDIES.
... THE CHRISTIAN BY EVIDENCES ALEXANDER MAIR , D.D = MORNINGSIDE , EDINBURGH . SECOND EDITION , REVISED AND ENLARGED . EDINBURGH T. & T. CLARK , 38 GEORGE STREET 1889 26 PREFACE . THIS book is not written primarily for 95260 STUDIES.
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... written expressly for that section of our intelligent Church members and adherents whose minds have been brought into contact with the religious doubts and diffi- culties of the age , and have in some measure felt them ; and not less ...
... written expressly for that section of our intelligent Church members and adherents whose minds have been brought into contact with the religious doubts and diffi- culties of the age , and have in some measure felt them ; and not less ...
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... written primarily to make known to us the order of physical creation , but the grand religious truth that the earth and its contents were created , and that God was the Creator . Its design is to sweep away all idolatry and mere 1 See ...
... written primarily to make known to us the order of physical creation , but the grand religious truth that the earth and its contents were created , and that God was the Creator . Its design is to sweep away all idolatry and mere 1 See ...
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... writing in the midst of wild and fabulous cosmogonies and scientific night , should have hit by mere chance on so many elements of truth and sober- ness in regard to such a difficult question . Surely the whole suggests a higher hand ...
... writing in the midst of wild and fabulous cosmogonies and scientific night , should have hit by mere chance on so many elements of truth and sober- ness in regard to such a difficult question . Surely the whole suggests a higher hand ...
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Page 144 - And his disciples asked him, saying : " Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind ? " Jesus answered : " Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents : but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Page 114 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Page 117 - 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 117 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day 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...
Page 180 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 282 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Page 251 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 283 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations : and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 171 - 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.
Page 373 - When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed upon earth, religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity...