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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... round his tomb , aware that he had said , " After three days I will rise again . " Some of the miracles were on that grand scale that absolutely precludes all suspicion of any little juggling trick . Many thousands were fed with what ...
... round his tomb , aware that he had said , " After three days I will rise again . " Some of the miracles were on that grand scale that absolutely precludes all suspicion of any little juggling trick . Many thousands were fed with what ...
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... round the foot of the hill , let your Moses go up , in the view of them all , to the summit . Then let the multitude feel the ground shake under them , till every creature tremble and fear lest the earth should open and swallow them all ...
... round the foot of the hill , let your Moses go up , in the view of them all , to the summit . Then let the multitude feel the ground shake under them , till every creature tremble and fear lest the earth should open and swallow them all ...
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... round upon the heaven and the earth , and behold our Bible . " Well , then , you should at least meet us boldly , when we appeal to living records , and pointing to the Jews say , " Behold the unsuspected , because unwilling witnesses ...
... round upon the heaven and the earth , and behold our Bible . " Well , then , you should at least meet us boldly , when we appeal to living records , and pointing to the Jews say , " Behold the unsuspected , because unwilling witnesses ...
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... of conduct in us ? Will not the warm sun induce the traveller to throw off the cloak , which the keen and blustering wind caused him to wrap closer round him ? They have waited long for the Messiah . But will 70 THE JEWS LIVING WITNESSES.
... of conduct in us ? Will not the warm sun induce the traveller to throw off the cloak , which the keen and blustering wind caused him to wrap closer round him ? They have waited long for the Messiah . But will 70 THE JEWS LIVING WITNESSES.
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... round , and is a barren country . Chateaubriand , who lately visited it , speaks of it as a barren place , in the midst of a wilderness . Rev. Dr. Bennett . - With regard to the Jews sig- nifying a nation , if I may be allowed to appeal ...
... round , and is a barren country . Chateaubriand , who lately visited it , speaks of it as a barren place , in the midst of a wilderness . Rev. Dr. Bennett . - With regard to the Jews sig- nifying a nation , if I may be allowed to appeal ...
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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.