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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... speak of it but in the language of sneer or abuse . " Another class is of those who have been well characterized as " a cold , specula- tive , subtle set of skeptics , who attack first principles and confound their readers or hearers ...
... speak of it but in the language of sneer or abuse . " Another class is of those who have been well characterized as " a cold , specula- tive , subtle set of skeptics , who attack first principles and confound their readers or hearers ...
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... speak of pure mathematics , and of the certainty of its evidence . I say , then , with regard to pure mathematics , that it has no application to facts . No fact can be demonstrated . Nothing whatever , no asser- tion about any thing ...
... speak of pure mathematics , and of the certainty of its evidence . I say , then , with regard to pure mathematics , that it has no application to facts . No fact can be demonstrated . Nothing whatever , no asser- tion about any thing ...
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... speak of man as thus ignorant ? Is it their object to produce such a state of mind ? I think not , but rather to bring doubt and uncertainty over the whole subject . It is assumed that we are ignorant of the purposes of God , and then ...
... speak of man as thus ignorant ? Is it their object to produce such a state of mind ? I think not , but rather to bring doubt and uncertainty over the whole subject . It is assumed that we are ignorant of the purposes of God , and then ...
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... speak to his own child ? Communion with God needed - not a strange thing.- It is demonstrable , on the principles of reason , that , if man had continued in a state of innocence , the high- est progress , and expansion , and felicity of ...
... speak to his own child ? Communion with God needed - not a strange thing.- It is demonstrable , on the principles of reason , that , if man had continued in a state of innocence , the high- est progress , and expansion , and felicity of ...
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... speak with " authority , and not as the scribes . " — Moral ignorance and degradation . - And if mankind were thus benighted without revelation , it will follow , of course , that they were degraded . Moral darkness , voluntarily ...
... speak with " authority , and not as the scribes . " — Moral ignorance and degradation . - And if mankind were thus benighted without revelation , it will follow , of course , that they were degraded . Moral darkness , voluntarily ...
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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.