A View of Religions in Three Parts ...W. Button & Son, 1805 - 500 pages |
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... Romans , and even among the Jews , at the time of our Saviour's appearing , did not prove that there was no certain knowledge to be obtained of what was truth . Our Lord considered himself as speaking plainly , or he would not have ...
... Romans , and even among the Jews , at the time of our Saviour's appearing , did not prove that there was no certain knowledge to be obtained of what was truth . Our Lord considered himself as speaking plainly , or he would not have ...
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... Roman empire . This empire was much the largest temporal monarchy that had ever existed : so that it was called , " all the world . " ( Luke ii . 1. ) The time when the Romans first subjugated the land of Judea , was between sixty and ...
... Roman empire . This empire was much the largest temporal monarchy that had ever existed : so that it was called , " all the world . " ( Luke ii . 1. ) The time when the Romans first subjugated the land of Judea , was between sixty and ...
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... Roman empire not only rose to its greatest height , but was also settled in peace . Augustus Cęsar had been for many years establishing the state of the Roman empire , and sub- duing his enemies , till the very year that Christ was born ...
... Roman empire not only rose to its greatest height , but was also settled in peace . Augustus Cęsar had been for many years establishing the state of the Roman empire , and sub- duing his enemies , till the very year that Christ was born ...
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... Romans grew as ambitious in their religious preten- sions as in their political claims . They maintained that their gods , though under different appellations , were the objects of religious worship in all nations ; and therefore they ...
... Romans grew as ambitious in their religious preten- sions as in their political claims . They maintained that their gods , though under different appellations , were the objects of religious worship in all nations ; and therefore they ...
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... Romans ; yet they were practised by them on extraordinary occasions . Porphyry says that the Greeks were wont to sacrifice men when they went to war . He relates also that human sacrifices were offered at Rome till the reign of Adrian ...
... Romans ; yet they were practised by them on extraordinary occasions . Porphyry says that the Greeks were wont to sacrifice men when they went to war . He relates also that human sacrifices were offered at Rome till the reign of Adrian ...
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Page 20 - BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 105 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, "Why hast thou made me thus ? " Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Page 25 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Page 15 - Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Page 10 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 27 - And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming : even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish : because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 7 - BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand : by which also ye are saved, - if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed" in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures...
Page 252 - And that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 110 - For by grace are ye saved through faith ; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Page 322 - And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off : it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.