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... reason and phi- lofophy , and are willing to infinuate , that none who are really poffeffed of thofe talents , can easily affent to the truth of chrif- tianity . But unfortunately for them and their caufe , many perfons , who were ...
... reason and phi- lofophy , and are willing to infinuate , that none who are really poffeffed of thofe talents , can easily affent to the truth of chrif- tianity . But unfortunately for them and their caufe , many perfons , who were ...
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... reason- ings and inferences is the only safe guide for the right under- ftanding of him , under the spirit of God , that directed thefe facred writings . And the death of this great man was agreeable to his life . For we are informed ...
... reason- ings and inferences is the only safe guide for the right under- ftanding of him , under the spirit of God , that directed thefe facred writings . And the death of this great man was agreeable to his life . For we are informed ...
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... reason naturally leads to the belief of revelation , when it is not under the influence of vice , or pride . 4. And ... reasons they offer ; and lawyers and physicians are not lefs credited because they live by their profeffions ; but it ...
... reason naturally leads to the belief of revelation , when it is not under the influence of vice , or pride . 4. And ... reasons they offer ; and lawyers and physicians are not lefs credited because they live by their profeffions ; but it ...
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... reasons why you should not expect that matters of fuch a wonderful nature fhould be taken notice of by thofe eminent Pagan writers who were co- temporaries with Jefus Chrift , or by those who lived be- fore his Difciples had perfonally ...
... reasons why you should not expect that matters of fuch a wonderful nature fhould be taken notice of by thofe eminent Pagan writers who were co- temporaries with Jefus Chrift , or by those who lived be- fore his Difciples had perfonally ...
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... reason to believe them , they would still have continued heathens , and have made no mention of them in their writings . VI . When a man is born under Chriftian parents , and trained up in the profeffion of that religion from a child ...
... reason to believe them , they would still have continued heathens , and have made no mention of them in their writings . VI . When a man is born under Chriftian parents , and trained up in the profeffion of that religion from a child ...
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Page 53 - 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 61 - 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.
Page 119 - 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 52 - If we consider him in his omnipresence, his being passes through, actuates, and supports the whole frame of nature. His creation, and every part of it, is full of him.
Page 56 - Who then can bear the thought of being an outcast from his presence, that is, from the comforts of it ; or of feeling it only in its terrors ! How pathetic is that...
Page 56 - Though the whole creation frowns upon him, and all nature looks black about him, he has his light and support within him, that are able to cheer his mind, and bear him up in the midst of all those horrors which encompass him.
Page iii - 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 88 - Being, naturally produces patience, hope, cheerfulness, and all other dispositions of mind that alleviate those calamities which we are not able to remove. The practice of this virtue administers great comfort to the mind of man in times of poverty and affliction, but most of all in the hour of death.
Page 72 - THOSE who were skilful in anatomy, among the ancients, concluded, from the outward and inward make of an human body, that it was the work of a Being transcendently wise and powerful. As the world grew more enlightened in this art, their discoveries gave them fresh opportunities of admiring the conduct of Providence in the formation of a human body.
Page 52 - 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.