Demonstration of the Truth of the Christian ReligionHarper, 1839 - 336 pages |
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... writings were translated into Greek above three hundred and forty years before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans . Reason and Scripture alike warrant that the precedence in the Christian testimony should now be given to visible ...
... writings were translated into Greek above three hundred and forty years before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans . Reason and Scripture alike warrant that the precedence in the Christian testimony should now be given to visible ...
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Alexander Keith. their writings , those especially of Isaiah , have been desig- nated as 66 bombastical rant , full of extravagant metaphor , without application , and destitute of meaning . " But , as every reader must see on comparing ...
Alexander Keith. their writings , those especially of Isaiah , have been desig- nated as 66 bombastical rant , full of extravagant metaphor , without application , and destitute of meaning . " But , as every reader must see on comparing ...
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... writings of Abulfeda and Josephus , the learned Busching has formed an excellent geographical treatise . In modern times we have judicious missionaries , such as Dandini ; antiquaries , as Wood ; and naturalists , as Maundrel and ...
... writings of Abulfeda and Josephus , the learned Busching has formed an excellent geographical treatise . In modern times we have judicious missionaries , such as Dandini ; antiquaries , as Wood ; and naturalists , as Maundrel and ...
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... writings . After contem- plating this phenomenon , we shall find no difficulty in allow- ing that events which would now be so extraordinary that they might be termed almost incredible - our confidence in the continuance of the present ...
... writings . After contem- plating this phenomenon , we shall find no difficulty in allow- ing that events which would now be so extraordinary that they might be termed almost incredible - our confidence in the continuance of the present ...
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... writings of the ancient priests or prophets , the expectation of the coming of a great Deliverer , who , arising from Judea , was to triumph over the nations— was not only prevalent , but universal over the whole East at the very time ...
... writings of the ancient priests or prophets , the expectation of the coming of a great Deliverer , who , arising from Judea , was to triumph over the nations— was not only prevalent , but universal over the whole East at the very time ...
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Page 292 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels ? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 136 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Page 55 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 67 - Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Page 264 - Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see : and they glorified the God of Israel.
Page 146 - Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Page 136 - For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
Page 202 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, And as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness; And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 136 - And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Page 109 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges; of the earth as vanity.