A Brief Outline of the Evidences of the Christian Religion ...R.T.S., 1830 - 180 pages |
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... atheism . Deistical writers have been fond of representing faith and reason as irreconcilable . They have insinuated , and even asserted , that revelation cannot be received without a renunciation of reason ; and have affected to regret ...
... atheism . Deistical writers have been fond of representing faith and reason as irreconcilable . They have insinuated , and even asserted , that revelation cannot be received without a renunciation of reason ; and have affected to regret ...
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... atheists have succeeded in divesting themselves of all religious impression , I do not pretend to know . That some men have gone to a great length in counteracting the constitutional tendencies , and extinguishing the feelings of nature ...
... atheists have succeeded in divesting themselves of all religious impression , I do not pretend to know . That some men have gone to a great length in counteracting the constitutional tendencies , and extinguishing the feelings of nature ...
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... atheism , and cried as earnestly for merey as those around them . Now , if these philosophers , with all their reasoning , are not able to erase all religious impressions from their own minds , it is vain to attempt to banish all ...
... atheism , and cried as earnestly for merey as those around them . Now , if these philosophers , with all their reasoning , are not able to erase all religious impressions from their own minds , it is vain to attempt to banish all ...
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... atheism was most baleful on society . Plutarch , Bacon , Bayle , Warburton , and others , have handled this subject in a learned and ingenious manner , and arrived at very different conclusions . However doubtful this question may have ...
... atheism was most baleful on society . Plutarch , Bacon , Bayle , Warburton , and others , have handled this subject in a learned and ingenious manner , and arrived at very different conclusions . However doubtful this question may have ...
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... Atheism has no bond of union for its professors ; no basis of mutual con . fidence . It breeds suspicion , and ... atheist fear becomes the ruling passion . Conscious of his own want of virtue , of honour , and humanity , he naturally ...
... Atheism has no bond of union for its professors ; no basis of mutual con . fidence . It breeds suspicion , and ... atheist fear becomes the ruling passion . Conscious of his own want of virtue , of honour , and humanity , he naturally ...
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Page 123 - For, I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness, in part, is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved...
Page 82 - Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
Page 49 - 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 175 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...
Page 110 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I the Lord, which will call thee by thy name, am the GOD of Israel.
Page 109 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 59 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish...
Page 107 - 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 73 - It is declared that he healed multitudes ot the most inveterate and incurable diseases; that he gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, speech to the...
Page 108 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee ; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: in the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!