The 'Essays and Reviews' Examined: A Series of Articles Contributed to the 'Morning Post,' Revised and Corrected by the Author : with Preface, Introduction, and Appendix, Containing Notes and Documents

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Johnstone, Hunter, 1861 - 267 páginas
 

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Página 94 - But I have greater witness than that of John : for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me that the Father hath sent me.
Página 85 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: and whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Página 178 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Página 65 - Israel as he strikes his heavenly lyre ! of sitting down under the tuition, successively, of all those holy men of old who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost...
Página 128 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Página 89 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish...
Página 107 - A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject ; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Página 46 - Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
Página 59 - Lord as born of the Spirit. Spiritual senses are given to him. He has a spiritual TASTE, that rejects whatever is injurious, and gladly receives whatever is salutary to the spiritual life: he desires the sincere milk of the word, that he may grow thereby.
Página 89 - It is, that tho effect was defeated, not in the absence, but in consequence, of a counteracting cause, namely, a direct interposition of an act of the will of some being who has power over nature...

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