Youth and Years at Oxford, in Conversation on Questions of the DayG. Shrimpton, 1872 - 376 pages |
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... intelligent terms were employed to denote it . Since Scripture represents a future life as a continuation of the present one , its representations , warnings , promises , and duration , must be based on the present nature of man , and ...
... intelligent terms were employed to denote it . Since Scripture represents a future life as a continuation of the present one , its representations , warnings , promises , and duration , must be based on the present nature of man , and ...
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... intelligent inquirer one or two points . I would tell him that the Bible is written in popular language , the language of appearances , rather than in the the language of technical and philosophical accuracy . Its mission is not to in ...
... intelligent inquirer one or two points . I would tell him that the Bible is written in popular language , the language of appearances , rather than in the the language of technical and philosophical accuracy . Its mission is not to in ...
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... intelligent manner , an absolute everlastingness of Is not existence ? You admit that such words are to be found . You admit that the endlessness of God's Being , and the endlessness of heavenly glory , are plainly revealed to us in ...
... intelligent manner , an absolute everlastingness of Is not existence ? You admit that such words are to be found . You admit that the endlessness of God's Being , and the endlessness of heavenly glory , are plainly revealed to us in ...
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... intelligent reader would give to these expressions , for though he might not be able to furnish the rationale of figurative language , he would shew us that he was not mystified with these symbolical descriptions , by accepting them as ...
... intelligent reader would give to these expressions , for though he might not be able to furnish the rationale of figurative language , he would shew us that he was not mystified with these symbolical descriptions , by accepting them as ...
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... intelligent writer or speaker on this theme would overlook the terribleness of trans- gression as discoverable in this life . But in addi- tion , God's Word plainly refers to future consequences , and fidelity to Scripture warning ...
... intelligent writer or speaker on this theme would overlook the terribleness of trans- gression as discoverable in this life . But in addi- tion , God's Word plainly refers to future consequences , and fidelity to Scripture warning ...
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Page 73 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 119 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry , but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.
Page 19 - But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Page 15 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 55 - And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell : for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Page 46 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 14 - Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation ; so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 106 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Page 28 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
Page 15 - But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.