A Brief Outline of the Evidences of the Christian ReligionD. A. Borrenstein, 1825 - 251 pages |
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... never think of religion but with a feeling of enmity , and they never speak of it , but in the language of sneer or abuse . There is no object which this race of infidels have more at heart , than to root up every principle of religion 14.
... never think of religion but with a feeling of enmity , and they never speak of it , but in the language of sneer or abuse . There is no object which this race of infidels have more at heart , than to root up every principle of religion 14.
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... infidel objection undetected and unexposed . As Mr. Hume wrote this immediately after finishing his argument against miracles , perhaps he felt a confidence , that he had achieved what none before were able to affect . But his ...
... infidel objection undetected and unexposed . As Mr. Hume wrote this immediately after finishing his argument against miracles , perhaps he felt a confidence , that he had achieved what none before were able to affect . But his ...
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... infidels a strange darkness has been thrown over the subject , so that it seems to be thought that there would be something immoral , or unwise , and inconsistent , in contravening the laws of na- ture . Let it be remembered , that the ...
... infidels a strange darkness has been thrown over the subject , so that it seems to be thought that there would be something immoral , or unwise , and inconsistent , in contravening the laws of na- ture . Let it be remembered , that the ...
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... infidels about new religions being commonly founded on miracles , or the pretence of miracles , has very little foundation in fact . Besides the Jewish and Christian religions , ( which are in- deed parts of the same , ) it would , I ...
... infidels about new religions being commonly founded on miracles , or the pretence of miracles , has very little foundation in fact . Besides the Jewish and Christian religions , ( which are in- deed parts of the same , ) it would , I ...
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... infidel , to point out , in the Gospel , some fact , or speech , which in the remotest degree , tends to prove , that the writers had a bad end in view . I need not say , that he could find nothing of the kind . Then , upon his ...
... infidel , to point out , in the Gospel , some fact , or speech , which in the remotest degree , tends to prove , that the writers had a bad end in view . I need not say , that he could find nothing of the kind . Then , upon his ...
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Page 165 - For, I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness, in part, is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved...
Page 59 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 148 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I the Lord, which will call thee by thy name, am the GOD of Israel.
Page 71 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish...
Page 198 - The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long, suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Page 2 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners.
Page 144 - And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you ; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought ; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other ; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Page 148 - Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the twoleaved gates ; and the gates shall not be shut...
Page 181 - It is not for you to know the times and the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.
Page 231 - For even hereunto were ye called : because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps : who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...