Sacred Annals; Or, Researches Into the History and Religion of Mankind, Volume 1Carlton & Porter, 1856 |
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... possessed by the early generations of mankind , be- fore we entered upon the history itself . This has been attempted in the " Preliminary Dissertation ; " the conclusions at which we have arrived , from a careful examination of the ...
... possessed by the early generations of mankind , be- fore we entered upon the history itself . This has been attempted in the " Preliminary Dissertation ; " the conclusions at which we have arrived , from a careful examination of the ...
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... possessed of the highest intellectual powers , endowed with the noblest attributes of mind , prepared to enter upon and successfully to pursue a course of vigorous and continued improvement ; or whether , emerging at first from mere ...
... possessed of the highest intellectual powers , endowed with the noblest attributes of mind , prepared to enter upon and successfully to pursue a course of vigorous and continued improvement ; or whether , emerging at first from mere ...
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... possessing , as it undoubtedly does , an antiquity , beyond any of our present Hebrew copies ; coming to us probably in the original character of the Jewish people ; and especially when a linguist and Biblical critic of Dr. Kennicott's ...
... possessing , as it undoubtedly does , an antiquity , beyond any of our present Hebrew copies ; coming to us probably in the original character of the Jewish people ; and especially when a linguist and Biblical critic of Dr. Kennicott's ...
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... possessed a substantial foundation for hope in the promises of Jehovah : they fled to this refuge , and exercised a strong faith in their holy reli- gion ; trusting to the hope of Israel , and believing in the promise of redemption to ...
... possessed a substantial foundation for hope in the promises of Jehovah : they fled to this refuge , and exercised a strong faith in their holy reli- gion ; trusting to the hope of Israel , and believing in the promise of redemption to ...
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... possessed sufficient learning and zeal to have detected the imposture . " Yes ; and they have done so . We might quote many eminent Christian writers that lived near the age of the apostles who clearly asserted the fact , that this ...
... possessed sufficient learning and zeal to have detected the imposture . " Yes ; and they have done so . We might quote many eminent Christian writers that lived near the age of the apostles who clearly asserted the fact , that this ...
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Page 398 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Page 388 - And God heard the voice of the lad ; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. № Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
Page 305 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 214 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts : and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Page 146 - And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
Page 404 - And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends : for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Page 244 - And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Page 162 - And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
Page 122 - And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 305 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the 25 earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.