Lectures on the Four Last Books of the Pentateuch: Designed to Show the Divine Origin of the Jewish Religion, Chiefly from Internal EvidenceW. Curry, 1844 - 509 pages |
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... period arrived , so many able and satisfactory answers * appeared to Mr Paine's pamphlet ; and the extreme ignorance of its author , the futility of his rea- sonings , and the grossness of his misrepresentations , were so clearly ...
... period arrived , so many able and satisfactory answers * appeared to Mr Paine's pamphlet ; and the extreme ignorance of its author , the futility of his rea- sonings , and the grossness of his misrepresentations , were so clearly ...
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... period of human history with which they are connected so dif- ferent , that it is not easy to combine them in one system of rea- soning with clearness and effect . At the same time , I am fully sensible of the inseparable connexion ...
... period of human history with which they are connected so dif- ferent , that it is not easy to combine them in one system of rea- soning with clearness and effect . At the same time , I am fully sensible of the inseparable connexion ...
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... period when its Author lived , yet exhibits a most important monument of the necessity and advantages both of the Jewish and Christian Revelations , the confirma- tion of the Sacred History by various records and authors extant at that ...
... period when its Author lived , yet exhibits a most important monument of the necessity and advantages both of the Jewish and Christian Revelations , the confirma- tion of the Sacred History by various records and authors extant at that ...
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... period when the events related in Scripture took place ; and from the great illustration which the Scriptures have received , by comparing them with the observations of modern travellers , on the productions , the manners , and the ...
... period when the events related in Scripture took place ; and from the great illustration which the Scriptures have received , by comparing them with the observations of modern travellers , on the productions , the manners , and the ...
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... period when the world was formed , which allows not quite 6,000 years to have yet elapsed , while these philosophers thought they had found a full proof that at least 14,000 had elapsed . So that these philosophers complain , that Moses ...
... period when the world was formed , which allows not quite 6,000 years to have yet elapsed , while these philosophers thought they had found a full proof that at least 14,000 had elapsed . So that these philosophers complain , that Moses ...
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Page 303 - And behold I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Page 91 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 339 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 302 - By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 424 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 137 - And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Page 325 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 404 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth...
Page 147 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 302 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called...