Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity: Delivered at the University of Virginia, During the Session of 1850-1William Henry Ruffner R. Carter & Brothers, 1852 - 606 páginas |
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... ancient channels , and ploughing up the very foundations of society . Take away the hold which revelation has upon the conscience , and the elaborate theories , profound maxims , and admired precepts which a philosopher may excogitate ...
... ancient channels , and ploughing up the very foundations of society . Take away the hold which revelation has upon the conscience , and the elaborate theories , profound maxims , and admired precepts which a philosopher may excogitate ...
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... ancient world produced , indeed , abominable gods , who on earth would have been shunned or punished as monsters , and who offered , as a picture of supreme happiness , only crimes to commit , and passions to satiate . But Vice , armed ...
... ancient world produced , indeed , abominable gods , who on earth would have been shunned or punished as monsters , and who offered , as a picture of supreme happiness , only crimes to commit , and passions to satiate . But Vice , armed ...
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... ancient story of Alexander of Macedon ? Can you believe that so petty a king , whose hereditary dominions were a small space between the mountains and the sea in a cor- ner of Europe , could have conquered Asia with 30,000 men ? — that ...
... ancient story of Alexander of Macedon ? Can you believe that so petty a king , whose hereditary dominions were a small space between the mountains and the sea in a cor- ner of Europe , could have conquered Asia with 30,000 men ? — that ...
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... ancient and in modern times . I come now to consider the evidence by which the miracles of Christ are supported . Not having witnessed them ourselves , we must rely upon the testimony of others who professed to have been eye - witnesses ...
... ancient and in modern times . I come now to consider the evidence by which the miracles of Christ are supported . Not having witnessed them ourselves , we must rely upon the testimony of others who professed to have been eye - witnesses ...
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... ancient records or traditions , I feel authorized to assume that we have the recorded testimony of the apostles in the New Testament . I may also assume that we have there a sub- stantially true history , so far as it goes , of what the ...
... ancient records or traditions , I feel authorized to assume that we have the recorded testimony of the apostles in the New Testament . I may also assume that we have there a sub- stantially true history , so far as it goes , of what the ...
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Página 378 - Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail...
Página 254 - Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piemontese that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Página 593 - Be wise now therefore, O ye kings : be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Página 591 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Página 273 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Página 592 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Página 578 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he epake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 281 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Página 65 - But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed, in any age or country.
Página 164 - And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.