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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... principles and confound their readers or hearers with paradoxes . " Apparently influenced by vanity , they adopt principles which would render all argument impossible or nu- gatory , and which would lead to fundamental and universal ...
... principles and confound their readers or hearers with paradoxes . " Apparently influenced by vanity , they adopt principles which would render all argument impossible or nu- gatory , and which would lead to fundamental and universal ...
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... principle involved in this assertion , in reference to all moral truth , and , indeed , to all truth the acquisition of which requires attention , is as obvious to philosophy and common sense as it is plainly announced in the Bible ...
... principle involved in this assertion , in reference to all moral truth , and , indeed , to all truth the acquisition of which requires attention , is as obvious to philosophy and common sense as it is plainly announced in the Bible ...
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... " Experience is our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact . " Our belief of any fact from the report of eye witnesses is derived HUME'S ARGUMENT . 29 from no other principle than experience 28 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY .
... " Experience is our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact . " Our belief of any fact from the report of eye witnesses is derived HUME'S ARGUMENT . 29 from no other principle than experience 28 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY .
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... principle than experience ; that is , our observation of the veracity of human testimony . Now , if the fact attested partakes of the marvelous , if it is such as has seldom fallen under our observation , here is a con- test of two ...
... principle than experience ; that is , our observation of the veracity of human testimony . Now , if the fact attested partakes of the marvelous , if it is such as has seldom fallen under our observation , here is a con- test of two ...
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... principles , indeed , are ever the same , but the developments are always new , — in which , therefore , no experience of the past can indicate with certainty what new openings of truth , what new manifestations of goodness , what new ...
... principles , indeed , are ever the same , but the developments are always new , — in which , therefore , no experience of the past can indicate with certainty what new openings of truth , what new manifestations of goodness , what new ...
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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.