The Testimony of Natural Theology to ChristianityM. Thomas, 1818 - 271 pages |
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... facts in common life , which are evidently penal , yet accompanied with indications of mercy CHAP . X. On the argument from negation CHAP XI . On moral discipline , as introductory and auxiliary to the practical reception of ...
... facts in common life , which are evidently penal , yet accompanied with indications of mercy CHAP . X. On the argument from negation CHAP XI . On moral discipline , as introductory and auxiliary to the practical reception of ...
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... with persons who think more highly than myself . The justness and the force of his arguments ; the skill with which he selects his facts , the pertinency , the acuteness , and the discrimination with which he applies them ; the lucid and 3.
... with persons who think more highly than myself . The justness and the force of his arguments ; the skill with which he selects his facts , the pertinency , the acuteness , and the discrimination with which he applies them ; the lucid and 3.
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... facts and exam- ples and illustrations might of course be multi- plied inexhaustibly ; he has produced an abund- ant sufficiency for the purposes which he medi- tated . Yet I may be allowed to state , that in his work there is a very ...
... facts and exam- ples and illustrations might of course be multi- plied inexhaustibly ; he has produced an abund- ant sufficiency for the purposes which he medi- tated . Yet I may be allowed to state , that in his work there is a very ...
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... pre- paratory influence to dispose him to listen to any credible revelation ; but that it is able , and that it is intended , by ulterior and direct facts and ar- guments within its own province , powerfully to assist the 7.
... pre- paratory influence to dispose him to listen to any credible revelation ; but that it is able , and that it is intended , by ulterior and direct facts and ar- guments within its own province , powerfully to assist the 7.
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... facts within the scope of natural reason as corrobora- ting divine truths , some may be selected , which appear to have in view the power only , or the wisdom , or the prescience , or the simple bene- volence of God , I do not deny ...
... facts within the scope of natural reason as corrobora- ting divine truths , some may be selected , which appear to have in view the power only , or the wisdom , or the prescience , or the simple bene- volence of God , I do not deny ...
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Page 238 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so ; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
Page 120 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Page 239 - For of a truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Page 252 - 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 154 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Page 65 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 139 - And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: for whatsoever Adam called any living creature the same is its name.
Page 154 - ... and God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat...