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... light . The church , impotent and malicious , regrets , not the abuse , but the loss of her power , and seeks to hold by false- hood what she gained by crueltv and force , by fire and fear . Christianity cannot live in peace with any ...
... light . The church , impotent and malicious , regrets , not the abuse , but the loss of her power , and seeks to hold by false- hood what she gained by crueltv and force , by fire and fear . Christianity cannot live in peace with any ...
Page viii
... light a thousand faults that otherwise the general eye would never see . Were we allowed to read the Bible as we do all other books , we would admire its beauties , treasure its worthy thoughts , and account for all its absurd ...
... light a thousand faults that otherwise the general eye would never see . Were we allowed to read the Bible as we do all other books , we would admire its beauties , treasure its worthy thoughts , and account for all its absurd ...
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... Light of Raw Material — The Story of Creation Begun — The Same Story , substantially , Found in the Records of Babylon , Egypt , and India — Inspiration Unnecessary to the Truth — Usefulness of Miracles to Fit Lies to Facts — Division ...
... Light of Raw Material — The Story of Creation Begun — The Same Story , substantially , Found in the Records of Babylon , Egypt , and India — Inspiration Unnecessary to the Truth — Usefulness of Miracles to Fit Lies to Facts — Division ...
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... Light — Discrepancies — Human Weaknesses cannot be Predicated of Divine Wisdom — Why there are Four Gospels accord- ing to Irenæus — The Atonement — Remission of Sins under the Mosaic Dispensation — Christians say , Charge it " —God's ...
... Light — Discrepancies — Human Weaknesses cannot be Predicated of Divine Wisdom — Why there are Four Gospels accord- ing to Irenæus — The Atonement — Remission of Sins under the Mosaic Dispensation — Christians say , Charge it " —God's ...
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... discoveries of our time . They will finally insist upon knowing how to escape the evils of this world instead of the next . They will ask light upon the enigmas of this life . They will wish to know SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 23.
... discoveries of our time . They will finally insist upon knowing how to escape the evils of this world instead of the next . They will ask light upon the enigmas of this life . They will wish to know SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 23.
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Page 182 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee : and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing: and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 111 - Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife : and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Page 326 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 63 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters, which were under the firmament from the waters, which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 64 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 257 - ... If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 303 - And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
Page 109 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 146 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.