Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles: Explanatory and PracticalGeorge Shaw; J. Green, printer, 1815 - 314 pages |
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... false rigour , with which they adhered to the letter of the law , and suffered its spirit to evaporate . Under the sanction of his precept and example , we are per- mitted to do works of necessity , and enjoined works of charity on his ...
... false rigour , with which they adhered to the letter of the law , and suffered its spirit to evaporate . Under the sanction of his precept and example , we are per- mitted to do works of necessity , and enjoined works of charity on his ...
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... false- hood of this charge ; as if intoxication , whose ef- fect is rather to deprive men of the power of all speech , could enable the Apostles to discourse intel ligibly in so many various languages , so that the people to whom these ...
... false- hood of this charge ; as if intoxication , whose ef- fect is rather to deprive men of the power of all speech , could enable the Apostles to discourse intel ligibly in so many various languages , so that the people to whom these ...
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... to their interests , and most condemned by their pure and genuine maxims . But the act now under consideration was of a much deeper dye than acts of common false- hood and insincerity . For the Holy Ghost had just 62 LECTURES ON THE.
... to their interests , and most condemned by their pure and genuine maxims . But the act now under consideration was of a much deeper dye than acts of common false- hood and insincerity . For the Holy Ghost had just 62 LECTURES ON THE.
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... false and de- ceitful vanity , of appearing better before men than they really were ; by a sordid avarice in the next , which tempted them to hold back part of the price ; and lastly , by a daring impiety to ratify the whole with a lie ...
... false and de- ceitful vanity , of appearing better before men than they really were ; by a sordid avarice in the next , which tempted them to hold back part of the price ; and lastly , by a daring impiety to ratify the whole with a lie ...
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... falsely so called , " that they adopt it without the least qualification or enquiry . And yet there are instances , and even recorded by them- selves , where men of this description have betray- ed as gross credulity as the lowest of ...
... falsely so called , " that they adopt it without the least qualification or enquiry . And yet there are instances , and even recorded by them- selves , where men of this description have betray- ed as gross credulity as the lowest of ...
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Page 5 - Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my Name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents ; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven,...
Page 23 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Page 3 - God : 4 and, being assembled together with them, commanded them, that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but, wait for the promise of the Father, " which," saith he, " ye have heard of " me. * For, John, truly, baptized with WATER ; but, ye " shall be baptized with the HOLY GHOST not many days
Page 157 - And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 181 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 141 - Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead : so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Page 36 - Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne ; he seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Page 305 - And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Page 3 - THE former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that JESUS began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after that he, through the HOLY GHOST, had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen...
Page 166 - Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them." And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.