Reasons for the Hope that is in Us: A Series of Essays on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, the Immortality of the Soul, and Other Important Subjects, Adapted to the Understanding of Young PersonsH. Constable, 1831 - 263 Seiten |
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... regard to the periods of the revolutions of all the other heavenly bodies . And here it may be asked , why has my instance of creative intelligence been taken from astronomy ? and why has an enquirer of so little learning been selected ...
... regard to the periods of the revolutions of all the other heavenly bodies . And here it may be asked , why has my instance of creative intelligence been taken from astronomy ? and why has an enquirer of so little learning been selected ...
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... regard to that of the Old Testament . I there stated , that we must suppose it authentic , because it had been handed down in the Jewish community from the earliest times , guarded with all the attention na- turally applied for the ...
... regard to that of the Old Testament . I there stated , that we must suppose it authentic , because it had been handed down in the Jewish community from the earliest times , guarded with all the attention na- turally applied for the ...
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... regard to the writings of the evan- gelists . In them there is no straining in the recital , no apparent exaggeration , no particular wish to extol , but a simple and chaste narration of those things which they themselves had witnessed ...
... regard to the writings of the evan- gelists . In them there is no straining in the recital , no apparent exaggeration , no particular wish to extol , but a simple and chaste narration of those things which they themselves had witnessed ...
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... regard to the statement of them , the greatest accuracy must be looked for . Of these , the Anabasis of Xenophon , the Commentaries of Cæsar , and the Memoirs of Sully , may be given as examples . No one disputes the truth of what is ...
... regard to the statement of them , the greatest accuracy must be looked for . Of these , the Anabasis of Xenophon , the Commentaries of Cæsar , and the Memoirs of Sully , may be given as examples . No one disputes the truth of what is ...
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... regard to PROPHECY . Of all things , a knowledge of the future has been the most concealed from mankind . Ingenuity and art may ex- plore the most hidden recesses of nature , ―may analyse the air which we breathe , or follow a comet ...
... regard to PROPHECY . Of all things , a knowledge of the future has been the most concealed from mankind . Ingenuity and art may ex- plore the most hidden recesses of nature , ―may analyse the air which we breathe , or follow a comet ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 78 - They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be : that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots.
Seite 109 - As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you : continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Seite 132 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Seite 147 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Seite 161 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Seite 48 - I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Seite 46 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Seite 30 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Seite 190 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Seite 216 - ... by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects, which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages of society than that in which it was introduced, to wants of human nature not then developed, seems to me very striking. The religion bears the marks of having come from a being who perfectly understood the human mind, and had power to provide for its progress. This feature of Christianity is of the nature of prophecy. It was an anticipation of future...