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Page xxi
the end of his Mathematical Princi• ples of Natural Philosophy , he has • given us
his thoughts concerning the • Deity . Wherein he first observes , " that the
fimilitude found in all parts of the Universe , makes it undoubted , that the whole is
...
the end of his Mathematical Princi• ples of Natural Philosophy , he has • given us
his thoughts concerning the • Deity . Wherein he first observes , " that the
fimilitude found in all parts of the Universe , makes it undoubted , that the whole is
...
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... their accounts of him from error and oblivion , did not only set aside certain
persons for that purpose , as has been already shewn , but appropriated certain
days to the commemoration of those facts which they had related concerning him
.
... their accounts of him from error and oblivion , did not only set aside certain
persons for that purpose , as has been already shewn , but appropriated certain
days to the commemoration of those facts which they had related concerning him
.
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V . Origen insists likewise with great strength on that wonderful prediction of our
Saviour concerning the destruction of Jerusalem , pronounced at a time , as he
observes , when there was no likelihood nor appearance of it . This has been ...
V . Origen insists likewise with great strength on that wonderful prediction of our
Saviour concerning the destruction of Jerusalem , pronounced at a time , as he
observes , when there was no likelihood nor appearance of it . This has been ...
Page 146
3 I shall relieve my readers from this abstracted thought , by relating here a
Jewish tradition concerning Moses , which deems to be a kind of parable ,
illuftrating what I have last mentioned . That great Prophet , it is said , was called
up by a ...
3 I shall relieve my readers from this abstracted thought , by relating here a
Jewish tradition concerning Moses , which deems to be a kind of parable ,
illuftrating what I have last mentioned . That great Prophet , it is said , was called
up by a ...
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Fungar inari Munere Virg . , R . Tillotson , in his discourse concerning the danger
of all known fin , both from the light of nature and revelation , after having given
us the description of the last day out of Holy Writ , has this remarkable passage .
Fungar inari Munere Virg . , R . Tillotson , in his discourse concerning the danger
of all known fin , both from the light of nature and revelation , after having given
us the description of the last day out of Holy Writ , has this remarkable passage .
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Page 234 - Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for...
Page 91 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 191 - After it a voice roareth: He thundereth with the voice of his excellency; And he will not stay them when his voice is heard. God thundereth marvellously with his voice; Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
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Page xvii - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 105 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
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Page 247 - The thoughts of a freethinker are employed on certain minute particularities of religion, the difficulty of a single text, or the unaccountableness of some step of Providence or point of doctrine to his narrow faculties, without comprehending the scope and design of Christianity...
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| Title | The Evidences of the Christian Religion |
| Author | Joseph Addison |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 29 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 330 pages |
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