The Impossibility of Imposture in the Miracles of Scripture: A Lecture on the External Evidences of Divine Revelation Delivered at Silver Street Chapel, Thursday, Feb. 17, 1831, with the Discussion which FollowedWestley and Davis, 1831 - 242 pages |
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Page 152
... sceptic shudder . Thus , while my mind is distracted with contrary opinions , my heart is torn by conflicting emotions . Often I say , I wish I could believe there is a God ; but more often exclaim , I wish I could prove there is none ...
... sceptic shudder . Thus , while my mind is distracted with contrary opinions , my heart is torn by conflicting emotions . Often I say , I wish I could believe there is a God ; but more often exclaim , I wish I could prove there is none ...
Page 153
... sceptic , with regard to the being of God . 66 Think , next , what would be the state of such a one on the question of Divine Revelation . He would say , In my distracting uncertainty about the existence of a God , I exclaim , if there ...
... sceptic , with regard to the being of God . 66 Think , next , what would be the state of such a one on the question of Divine Revelation . He would say , In my distracting uncertainty about the existence of a God , I exclaim , if there ...
Page 154
... scepticism comes over me . I am awed with its grandeur , and offended with its meanness . struck with its peculiarities , and shocked at its ab- dities . Absurdities did I call them ? I am a sceptic even to my own scepticism , and half ...
... scepticism comes over me . I am awed with its grandeur , and offended with its meanness . struck with its peculiarities , and shocked at its ab- dities . Absurdities did I call them ? I am a sceptic even to my own scepticism , and half ...
Page 155
... scepticism is torment , active scepticism is contradiction . For the sceptic may well hide his doubts , lest he should make others as miserable as himself . " I will keep my doubts to myself , " he might say , " and not seek to torment ...
... scepticism is torment , active scepticism is contradiction . For the sceptic may well hide his doubts , lest he should make others as miserable as himself . " I will keep my doubts to myself , " he might say , " and not seek to torment ...
Page 156
... Sceptics own that they know not what is truth , then how know they but we have found it ? How can they tell that our ... scepticism is madness . If a man knows not what to think about any thing , and is really in doubt of every thing ...
... Sceptics own that they know not what is truth , then how know they but we have found it ? How can they tell that our ... scepticism is madness . If a man knows not what to think about any thing , and is really in doubt of every thing ...
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Page 116 - And saying, 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 : 16 Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 122 - JTTL.ND in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
Page 55 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 234 - Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 32 - Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
Page 116 - And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked : 9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
Page 124 - Moreover, if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone : if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
Page 116 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Page 3 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 116 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.