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Page 109
fpeculations of eternity we consider the time which is prefent to us as the middle ,
which divides the whole line into two equal parts . For this reason , many witty
authors compare the present time to an Isthmus or narrow neck of land , that rises
...
fpeculations of eternity we consider the time which is prefent to us as the middle ,
which divides the whole line into two equal parts . For this reason , many witty
authors compare the present time to an Isthmus or narrow neck of land , that rises
...
Page 110
This therefore is a depth not , to be founded by human understanding . We are
sure that there has been an eternity , and yet contradict ourselves when we
measure this eternity by any notion which we can frame of it . If we go to the
bottom of ...
This therefore is a depth not , to be founded by human understanding . We are
sure that there has been an eternity , and yet contradict ourselves when we
measure this eternity by any notion which we can frame of it . If we go to the
bottom of ...
Page 111
We may ascend as high as we please , and employ our Being to that eternity
which is to come , in adding millions of years to millions of years , and we can
never come up to any fountain - head of duration , to any beginning in eternity :
But at ...
We may ascend as high as we please , and employ our Being to that eternity
which is to come , in adding millions of years to millions of years , and we can
never come up to any fountain - head of duration , to any beginning in eternity :
But at ...
Page 292
Mr . SPECTATOR , " THERE are none of your fpecu• lations which please me
more than those upon Infinitude and Eternity . You • have already considered that
part of · Eternity which is past , and I wish you < would give us your thoughts upon
...
Mr . SPECTATOR , " THERE are none of your fpecu• lations which please me
more than those upon Infinitude and Eternity . You • have already considered that
part of · Eternity which is past , and I wish you < would give us your thoughts upon
...
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phical terms , we may apprehend a pou • tential though not an actual Eternity . "
This notion of a future Eternity , which is natural to the mind of man , is an
unanswerable argument that he is a Being designed for it : especially if • we
consider ...
phical terms , we may apprehend a pou • tential though not an actual Eternity . "
This notion of a future Eternity , which is natural to the mind of man , is an
unanswerable argument that he is a Being designed for it : especially if • we
consider ...
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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.
Page 213 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
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.
Page 119 - Existence is a blessing to those beings only which are endowed with perception, and is in a manner thrown away upon dead matter, any further than as it is subservient to beings which are conscious of their existence.
Page 89 - It would be an imperfection in him, were he able to remove out of one place into .another, or to withdraw himself from any thing he has created, or from any part of that space which is diffused and spread abroad to infinity.
Page 285 - But when the choice we actually have before us is this, whether we will...
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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