Lectures, Delivered at Bowdoin College: And Occasional SermonsJoseph Griffin, 1822 - 411 pages |
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... further said , that the various heathen deities were nothing but names , or notions of the Supreme God , according to his various powers and manifestations ; it being thought fit , that those different glories and perfections of the ...
... further said , that the various heathen deities were nothing but names , or notions of the Supreme God , according to his various powers and manifestations ; it being thought fit , that those different glories and perfections of the ...
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... Further , the opinion , now under consideration , seems lit- tle consistent with the personality , so distinctly attributed by the poets to the heathen gods . Their temples and wor- ship were altogether distinct ; and so it appears were ...
... Further , the opinion , now under consideration , seems lit- tle consistent with the personality , so distinctly attributed by the poets to the heathen gods . Their temples and wor- ship were altogether distinct ; and so it appears were ...
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... further into antiquity our researches extend , traces of belief of the divine unity and eternity be- come more numerous . It is probable , that the most ancient kind of idolatry con- sisted in the worship of the heavenly bodies . * Of ...
... further into antiquity our researches extend , traces of belief of the divine unity and eternity be- come more numerous . It is probable , that the most ancient kind of idolatry con- sisted in the worship of the heavenly bodies . * Of ...
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... further appeared by other incontest- able evidence , that the victims , destroyed in November , amounted to thirty nine . " " When a sick person is supposed not to be likely to re- cover , particularly if he be aged , he is conveyed to ...
... further appeared by other incontest- able evidence , that the victims , destroyed in November , amounted to thirty nine . " " When a sick person is supposed not to be likely to re- cover , particularly if he be aged , he is conveyed to ...
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... Further , not only the prisoners themselves , but their posterity were reduced to the same condition . The effects of this slavery had no bounds . Every thing was permitted to a master , with res- pect to his slaves . He had the power ...
... Further , not only the prisoners themselves , but their posterity were reduced to the same condition . The effects of this slavery had no bounds . Every thing was permitted to a master , with res- pect to his slaves . He had the power ...
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Page 176 - Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
Page 323 - And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Page 252 - ... it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : 44 where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 169 - ... backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful ; who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do. them.
Page 298 - And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.
Page 377 - To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my throne ; even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father on His throne.
Page 142 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
Page 141 - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Page 97 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 166 - And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.