The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian RevelationClarendon Press, 1801 - 354 pages |
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... history of our Saviour ; reduce these authors under their respective claffes , and shew what authority their teftimonies carry with them . Secondly , I fhall take notice of Jewish a authors in the fame light . II . There are many ...
... history of our Saviour ; reduce these authors under their respective claffes , and shew what authority their teftimonies carry with them . Secondly , I fhall take notice of Jewish a authors in the fame light . II . There are many ...
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... history , was not only one of the most learned men of his age , but , what adds a greater weight to his autho- rity in this cafe , was eminently skilful and well read in the laws of the Roman Empire . Nor can it be said , that Tertul ...
... history , was not only one of the most learned men of his age , but , what adds a greater weight to his autho- rity in this cafe , was eminently skilful and well read in the laws of the Roman Empire . Nor can it be said , that Tertul ...
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... history , an author would be thought very unreasonable who should reject it . I be- lieve you will be of my opinion , if you will peruse , with other authors , who have appeared in vindication of these letters as genuine , the ...
... history , an author would be thought very unreasonable who should reject it . I be- lieve you will be of my opinion , if you will peruse , with other authors , who have appeared in vindication of these letters as genuine , the ...
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... history may be reasonably expected from Pagans . I mean fuch parts as might be known to those who lived at a distance from Judæa , as well as to those who were the followers and eye - witneffes of Christ . II . Such particulars are most ...
... history may be reasonably expected from Pagans . I mean fuch parts as might be known to those who lived at a distance from Judæa , as well as to those who were the followers and eye - witneffes of Christ . II . Such particulars are most ...
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... history , but nothing like any invocation to dæmons . III . Celfus was fo hard fet with the re- port of our Saviour's miracles , and the con- fident attestations concerning him , that though though he often intimates he did not be ...
... history , but nothing like any invocation to dæmons . III . Celfus was fo hard fet with the re- port of our Saviour's miracles , and the con- fident attestations concerning him , that though though he often intimates he did not be ...
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Page 98 - 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 231 - 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 96 - We shall therefore utterly extinguish this melancholy thought, of our being overlooked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works...
Page 137 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 93 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other...
Page 294 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall rest in hope.
Page xvii - ... there were between God and our Saviour, in reference to his kingdom. We know not what need there was to set up a head and a chieftain, in opposition to " the prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air,
Page 252 - 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 115 - 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 137 - 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.