A familiar survey of the Christian religion, and of history as connected with the introduction of Christianity, and with its progress to the present time1836 |
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... probably hear ; and thus to lead him to withhold implicit con- fidence from others , which he may afterwards have to encounter . Throughout the whole work it has been my predominant desire to direct the acquisition of knowledge to viii ...
... probably hear ; and thus to lead him to withhold implicit con- fidence from others , which he may afterwards have to encounter . Throughout the whole work it has been my predominant desire to direct the acquisition of knowledge to viii ...
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... probably to numbers of the assistants whose labour he would employ in the completion of it , would be a decisive testimony in its whole progress of the certainty and the unshaken firmness of the Patri- arch's faith . Confiding in the ...
... probably to numbers of the assistants whose labour he would employ in the completion of it , would be a decisive testimony in its whole progress of the certainty and the unshaken firmness of the Patri- arch's faith . Confiding in the ...
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... probably few more powerful than the apparent dis- tance to which death was removed . In the present day , when he who has numbered seventy or eighty succes- sive units , has numbered the years within which he and almost all his ...
... probably few more powerful than the apparent dis- tance to which death was removed . In the present day , when he who has numbered seventy or eighty succes- sive units , has numbered the years within which he and almost all his ...
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... probably an idolater . The country of the Chaldees , which he inhabited , appears to have been distinguished from the earliest annals of Pagan antiquity for magic and superstition . And Joshua seems nearly to remove the possibility of ...
... probably an idolater . The country of the Chaldees , which he inhabited , appears to have been distinguished from the earliest annals of Pagan antiquity for magic and superstition . And Joshua seems nearly to remove the possibility of ...
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... probably adopted in consequence of their having been accustomed to see it adored in Egypt ; that it might be carried at the head of the host as a visible representation of Jehovah . On the earnest in- tercession of Moses , God forbore ...
... probably adopted in consequence of their having been accustomed to see it adored in Egypt ; that it might be carried at the head of the host as a visible representation of Jehovah . On the earnest in- tercession of Moses , God forbore ...
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Page 104 - Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt ; but, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them ; and they shall dwell in their own land.
Page 226 - God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness : because that which may be known of God is manifest in them ; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead : so that they are without excuse.
Page 95 - And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee...
Page 112 - And I will set a sign among them, And I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, To Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, To Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, That have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; And they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Page 96 - Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars, for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar ; the Lord of Hosts is his name. If those ordinances depart from before me saith the Lord ; then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Page 235 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened ; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 78 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind...
Page 101 - And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people : and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Page 251 - ... which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Page 127 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises : whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.