The Consistency of the Whole Scheme of Revelation with Itself and with Human ReasonJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 267 pages |
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... rule and standard the few facts supplied by its very limited experience in this world . We may follow up inference after inference , cautiously deducing remoter and less palpable truths from those primary ones , which are more ...
... rule and standard the few facts supplied by its very limited experience in this world . We may follow up inference after inference , cautiously deducing remoter and less palpable truths from those primary ones , which are more ...
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... rules of probability derived from their really accessible means of knowledge , which they would apply to every other case of external testimony . This is undoubt- edly the course of proceeding which the theory of Christianity requires ...
... rules of probability derived from their really accessible means of knowledge , which they would apply to every other case of external testimony . This is undoubt- edly the course of proceeding which the theory of Christianity requires ...
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... rule of faith , its injunctions the guide of their practice : —all these are points which the Christian believer may ... rules of con- duct , and that they should coalesce for the purpose of bringing into disrepute the only seemingly ...
... rule of faith , its injunctions the guide of their practice : —all these are points which the Christian believer may ... rules of con- duct , and that they should coalesce for the purpose of bringing into disrepute the only seemingly ...
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... rule of life , with a superaddition of fresh subsequent positions which , if we are willing to take the former one for granted , will , in some measure reconcile their con- tradictions , and establish their compatibility with the ...
... rule of life , with a superaddition of fresh subsequent positions which , if we are willing to take the former one for granted , will , in some measure reconcile their con- tradictions , and establish their compatibility with the ...
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... rule with any thing approaching to accuracy , and yet perhaps we may approximate to it sufficiently for the purpose of conjecturing how far the miracles , recorded in any given form of revelation , appear worthy of a wise Providence ...
... rule with any thing approaching to accuracy , and yet perhaps we may approximate to it sufficiently for the purpose of conjecturing how far the miracles , recorded in any given form of revelation , appear worthy of a wise Providence ...
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Page 124 - A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name.
Page 89 - And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day...
Page 142 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 89 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 60 - And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree -of life, and eat, and live for ever...
Page 153 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 91 - Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates: at his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
Page 141 - And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish ; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Page 91 - ... When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 244 - They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.