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... evangelists copied the genealogies as they stood in the publick registers : they must however have wanted com- mon sense , to insert manifest contradictions in their writ- ings and lists of names are strange things to forge ! —The ...
... evangelists copied the genealogies as they stood in the publick registers : they must however have wanted com- mon sense , to insert manifest contradictions in their writ- ings and lists of names are strange things to forge ! —The ...
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... evangelists , taken from the disagreement of their different narratives with each other : but he has failed of substantiating any ' material charge against them . Had the four evangelists 40.
... evangelists , taken from the disagreement of their different narratives with each other : but he has failed of substantiating any ' material charge against them . Had the four evangelists 40.
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... evangelists ; and the silence . of John , who wrote last , effectually confirms his judgment concerning the truth of the events which they recorded ; and which he omitted .--- Industry , ingenuity , and malice , nay learning itself ...
... evangelists ; and the silence . of John , who wrote last , effectually confirms his judgment concerning the truth of the events which they recorded ; and which he omitted .--- Industry , ingenuity , and malice , nay learning itself ...
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... evangelists give the substance of the inscription over our Lord's cross ; in this they perfectly agree ; and nothing would have been more easy than exact coinci- dence , had they thought it an object , or had they written in concert ...
... evangelists give the substance of the inscription over our Lord's cross ; in this they perfectly agree ; and nothing would have been more easy than exact coinci- dence , had they thought it an object , or had they written in concert ...
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... Evangelists , in their several narratives , have often been urged as an ob- jection to the history of that event : but Mr. P. by con- founding things entirely distinct , and by using , with great confidence , various delusive methods of ...
... Evangelists , in their several narratives , have often been urged as an ob- jection to the history of that event : but Mr. P. by con- founding things entirely distinct , and by using , with great confidence , various delusive methods of ...
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Page 13 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Page 42 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 77 - Lord. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
Page 62 - ... how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him ; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
Page 31 - Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter : Fear God, and keep his commandments ; for this is the whole duty of man : for God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Page 20 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand : and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries ? and he said, Nay ; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come.
Page 79 - For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world...
Page 82 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets.
Page 3 - Then he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, 'All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.
Page 51 - Testament, from the necessary connection it has with the whole system of the Jewish religion, from the miracles of Christ, and from the evidence given of his resurrection by all the other apostles, I think the conversion and apostleship of St. Paul alone, duly considered, is, of itself, a demonstration sufficient to prove Christianity to be a divine revelation.