The Truth and Consistency of Divine Revelation;: With Some Remarks on the Contrary Extremes of Infidelity and Enthusiasm, in Eight Discourses, Delivered Before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, in the Year MDCCCXI. At the Lecture Founded by the Late Rev. John Bampton, Canon of SalisburyPrinted at the University Press, for Longman and Company Paternoster Row, and J. Murray, Fleet Street, London; and Rees and Curtis, Plymouth: and sold by J. Parker, R. Bliss, and the other booksellers, in Oxford; and J. Deighton, Cambridge., 1811 - Apologetics - 250 pages |
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... equally proud , in de- fiance has entered the lifts , affumed the ar- mour of the vanquished , or tried a new mode of affault . Under the direction however of a di- vine Providence , and by the aid of reason and of human learning ...
... equally proud , in de- fiance has entered the lifts , affumed the ar- mour of the vanquished , or tried a new mode of affault . Under the direction however of a di- vine Providence , and by the aid of reason and of human learning ...
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... equally disturb the one robs the foul of its beft fup- port , a confidence in the promises of his Sa- viour ; the other would perfuade us , that God is partial and implacable . Thus the mind , agitated and overwhelmed , fhaken with the ...
... equally disturb the one robs the foul of its beft fup- port , a confidence in the promises of his Sa- viour ; the other would perfuade us , that God is partial and implacable . Thus the mind , agitated and overwhelmed , fhaken with the ...
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... equally diligent , and who have been eminently cooperative in con- firming its evidences . It will be found too , in the established Church , that many of its most able and active defenders have not been ac- tuated by worldly motives ...
... equally diligent , and who have been eminently cooperative in con- firming its evidences . It will be found too , in the established Church , that many of its most able and active defenders have not been ac- tuated by worldly motives ...
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... equally minute , by accretion , by accumulation . and expanfion , produce a great effect of or- ganization , and this without volition . All is the regular and natural effect of the law of nature , conforming to the model proposed by ...
... equally minute , by accretion , by accumulation . and expanfion , produce a great effect of or- ganization , and this without volition . All is the regular and natural effect of the law of nature , conforming to the model proposed by ...
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... , as not to be convinced by this unknown but aftonishing influence ; this regulation of events , far beyond our limited comprehension ? Equally astonishing is the proportion of things preferved , not F3 LECTURE II . 69.
... , as not to be convinced by this unknown but aftonishing influence ; this regulation of events , far beyond our limited comprehension ? Equally astonishing is the proportion of things preferved , not F3 LECTURE II . 69.
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Page 87 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 172 - Albeit that Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith; insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 179 - God's purpose by His Spirit working in due season. They through grace obey the calling, they be justified freely, they be made sons of God by adoption, they be made like the image of His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, they walk religiously in good works, and at length, by God's mercy they attain to everlasting felicity.
Page 60 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 107 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one ; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Page 175 - PREDESTINATION to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
Page x - FROM THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE REV. JOHN BAMPTON, CANON OF SALISBURY. " I give and bequeath my Lands and Estates to the " Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of " Oxford for ever, to have and to hold all and...
Page xi - ... deductions made) that he pay all the remainder to the endowment of eight Divinity Lecture Sermons, to be...
Page 81 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 60 - If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.