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... story , for which the first propagators of Christianity suffered , was miraculous , CHAPTER VII . That it was in the main the story which we have now proved by indirect considerations , 89 99 107 CHAPTER VIII . The same proved , from ...
... story , for which the first propagators of Christianity suffered , was miraculous , CHAPTER VII . That it was in the main the story which we have now proved by indirect considerations , 89 99 107 CHAPTER VIII . The same proved , from ...
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... story or the evidence arose . I think that we are obliged ; not , perhaps , to show by positive accounts how it did , but by a probable hypothesis how it might so happen . The existence of the testimony is a phenomenon ; the truth of ...
... story or the evidence arose . I think that we are obliged ; not , perhaps , to show by positive accounts how it did , but by a probable hypothesis how it might so happen . The existence of the testimony is a phenomenon ; the truth of ...
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... story . This is perfectly incredible . To me it appears little less than certain , that , if the first announcing of the religion by the Founder had not been followed up by the zeal and industry of his immediate disciples , the attempt ...
... story . This is perfectly incredible . To me it appears little less than certain , that , if the first announcing of the religion by the Founder had not been followed up by the zeal and industry of his immediate disciples , the attempt ...
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... story upon which it is founded , and that no act of power , force , and authority , was concerned in its first success , I should con- clude , from the very nature and exigency of the case , that the Author of the religion during his ...
... story upon which it is founded , and that no act of power , force , and authority , was concerned in its first success , I should con- clude , from the very nature and exigency of the case , that the Author of the religion during his ...
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... do we insist upon the correctness of single passages of it . If the whole story be not a novel , a romance ; the whole ac- + Acts , iv . 3 , 21 . 1 Cor . iv . 9 , et seq . Acts , v . 18 , 40. * tion a dream ; if Peter , and James , 91.
... do we insist upon the correctness of single passages of it . If the whole story be not a novel , a romance ; the whole ac- + Acts , iv . 3 , 21 . 1 Cor . iv . 9 , et seq . Acts , v . 18 , 40. * tion a dream ; if Peter , and James , 91.
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Page 81 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 71 - Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified ; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Page 58 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord ; that the Lord Is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 58 - Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Page 90 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace ; and labour, working with our own hands...
Page 33 - The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Page 59 - ... so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure : which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer...
Page 96 - For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries...
Page 239 - Sun-day" all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits ; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.
Page 340 - I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.