A Familiar Survey of the Christian Religion: And of History, as Connected with the Introduction of Christianity, and with Its Progress to the Present Time. Intended Primarily for the Use of Young Persons of Either Sex, During the Course of Public Or of Private EducationA. Strahan, 1801 - 542 pages |
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... church . The canonical books were again subdivided by the Jews , for the fake of convenient refer- ence and quotation , into three claffes ; not fo distinguished through any difference in the authority affigned to them , ( for in that ...
... church . The canonical books were again subdivided by the Jews , for the fake of convenient refer- ence and quotation , into three claffes ; not fo distinguished through any difference in the authority affigned to them , ( for in that ...
Page 159
... church : a connection which in the Pfalms , and also in the New Teftament , is reprefented , in ac- commodation to human ideas , under the figurative allufion of the clofeft and most affec- tionate of all human connections , that of ...
... church : a connection which in the Pfalms , and also in the New Teftament , is reprefented , in ac- commodation to human ideas , under the figurative allufion of the clofeft and most affec- tionate of all human connections , that of ...
Page 163
... church . he expatiates with fuch accuracy and fuch magnificence of defcription , that he has been emphatically denominated the evangelical prophet . His book is quoted with high diftinction by Chrift and the apoftles ( r ) . A Jeremiah ...
... church . he expatiates with fuch accuracy and fuch magnificence of defcription , that he has been emphatically denominated the evangelical prophet . His book is quoted with high diftinction by Chrift and the apoftles ( r ) . A Jeremiah ...
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... church of Rome , it is not neceffary to enter into detail ( x ) . From the perufal of them , though human compofitions , much religious inftruction may their return from the Babylonian captivity , during which great numbers of them had ...
... church of Rome , it is not neceffary to enter into detail ( x ) . From the perufal of them , though human compofitions , much religious inftruction may their return from the Babylonian captivity , during which great numbers of them had ...
Page 180
... church to the Chriflian Scriptures . The term " Covenant " would however have been on the whole a more appropriate tran- flation . The word " Teftament , " in its natural meaning is not very applicable to the Jewish canon : but may be ...
... church to the Chriflian Scriptures . The term " Covenant " would however have been on the whole a more appropriate tran- flation . The word " Teftament , " in its natural meaning is not very applicable to the Jewish canon : but may be ...
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Page 300 - ... far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. And hath put all things under his feet : and gave him to be the head over all things, to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all...
Page 77 - Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? His God be with him, and let him go up...
Page 108 - And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Page 317 - For scarcely for a righteous man will one die ; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Page 42 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 316 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet ; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour ; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 42 - God ; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire : and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
Page 523 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Page 269 - What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise : for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin ; as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 269 - I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me; for I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing; for to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not; for the good that I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do.