Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, Revised as a Text Book, with a Supplementary Chapter Considering Some Attacks on the Critical School, the Corroborative Evidence of Recently Discovered Manuscripts, Etc., and the Testimony of Jesus on His TrialT. R. Marvin & son, 1909 - 371 pages |
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... judge of that testimony on its own proper merits . - ― Thus stands the argument , if , with Hume , we place our belief in the uniformity of nature on the ground of experience . But is this really the ground of that belief ? I think not ...
... judge of that testimony on its own proper merits . - ― Thus stands the argument , if , with Hume , we place our belief in the uniformity of nature on the ground of experience . But is this really the ground of that belief ? I think not ...
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... judge beforehand of their prob- ability or improbability . In the first case , we should allow nothing for what we ... judge of Christianity approach it in this spirit , and we are content . Need of the philosophic spirit . - And surely ...
... judge beforehand of their prob- ability or improbability . In the first case , we should allow nothing for what we ... judge of Christianity approach it in this spirit , and we are content . Need of the philosophic spirit . - And surely ...
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... judge of the probability of any event , we must know something of its causes , or of the intentions of the agent who may produce it . If we know nothing of these , we have no right to say , of any event , that it is probable or im ...
... judge of the probability of any event , we must know something of its causes , or of the intentions of the agent who may produce it . If we know nothing of these , we have no right to say , of any event , that it is probable or im ...
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... judge what would , or would not , be probable under his government . Far better might the little child , yet learning its alphabet , judge of the prob- abilities respecting the purposes and actions of the Government of these United ...
... judge what would , or would not , be probable under his government . Far better might the little child , yet learning its alphabet , judge of the prob- abilities respecting the purposes and actions of the Government of these United ...
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... judge of the improbability , no less than of the probability , of events ; and while these persons shrink back with a pious horror from the pre- sumption of judging what God might or might not do , they covertly assume a knowledge of ...
... judge of the improbability , no less than of the probability , of events ; and while these persons shrink back with a pious horror from the pre- sumption of judging what God might or might not do , they covertly assume a knowledge of ...
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Page 311 - Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 303 - And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
Page 310 - Then he said unto them ; O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken ! Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory ? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Page 64 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; thou shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Page 309 - I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to...
Page 319 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given : and the government shall be upon his shoulder : and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Page 320 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 317 - Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part ; and also his coat : now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be...
Page 316 - All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Page 256 - Sun-day" all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits ; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.