The Works of Samuel Stennett, Volume 3Thomas Tegg, 1824 |
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... things , some pious people , when they meet with an expression in Scripture which seems scarce conformable to philosophical truth , or with lan- guage which strikes them as rather inelegant or improper , are instantly thrown into a fit ...
... things , some pious people , when they meet with an expression in Scripture which seems scarce conformable to philosophical truth , or with lan- guage which strikes them as rather inelegant or improper , are instantly thrown into a fit ...
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... things being fulfilled which were written in the Law , and in the Prophets , and in the Psalms concerning him ; ' the word Psalms , with which the Hagiographa begins , standing for the whole of that division of Scripture , according to ...
... things being fulfilled which were written in the Law , and in the Prophets , and in the Psalms concerning him ; ' the word Psalms , with which the Hagiographa begins , standing for the whole of that division of Scripture , according to ...
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... thing like it to be found any where in our world ? Sure there is the strongest presumptive reason to con- clude from this ... things ? Who is not disposed to listen to a story that is strange and marvellous , if it be not absolutely ...
... thing like it to be found any where in our world ? Sure there is the strongest presumptive reason to con- clude from this ... things ? Who is not disposed to listen to a story that is strange and marvellous , if it be not absolutely ...
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... things considered , I may venture to add , it is by no means improbable . A book is put into our hands claiming this ... thing like the same pretensions to divine authority . Neither the Zend of Zoroaster , the Five Books of Confucius ...
... things considered , I may venture to add , it is by no means improbable . A book is put into our hands claiming this ... thing like the same pretensions to divine authority . Neither the Zend of Zoroaster , the Five Books of Confucius ...
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... things usually make on the minds of spectators , and many other unavoidablę occasions of inaccuracy and mistake ; I say , considering all these things , it would have been strange indeed if left to them selves they should have given us ...
... things usually make on the minds of spectators , and many other unavoidablę occasions of inaccuracy and mistake ; I say , considering all these things , it would have been strange indeed if left to them selves they should have given us ...
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Page 44 - Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth : for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak : and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me ; for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Page 27 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 47 - As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction...
Page 263 - The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
Page 145 - But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Page 233 - For the king knoweth of these things before whom also I speak freely; for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.
Page 28 - Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah ? This that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Page 308 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; And the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; And they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, And they shall be changed: But thou art the same, And thy years shall not fail.
Page 325 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 27 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.