A View of the Evidences of Christianity: In Three PartsChristian Evidence Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1872 - Apologetics - 671 pages |
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... observations on miracles are a proof in point . On the abstract credibility of miracles , a subject which in our day has given rise to animated discussion , he offers no remarks ; while nothing can exceed the trenchant manner in which ...
... observations on miracles are a proof in point . On the abstract credibility of miracles , a subject which in our day has given rise to animated discussion , he offers no remarks ; while nothing can exceed the trenchant manner in which ...
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... our infancy , it is what we neither experience nor observe . After men became Chris- tians , much of their time was spent in prayer and devotion , in religious meetings , in celebrating the 32 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY .
... our infancy , it is what we neither experience nor observe . After men became Chris- tians , much of their time was spent in prayer and devotion , in religious meetings , in celebrating the 32 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY .
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... observations thus : - " But neither these exertions , nor his largesses to the people , nor his offerings to the gods , did away the infamous imputation under which Nero lay , of having ordered the city to be set on fire . To put an end ...
... observations thus : - " But neither these exertions , nor his largesses to the people , nor his offerings to the gods , did away the infamous imputation under which Nero lay , of having ordered the city to be set on fire . To put an end ...
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... observed , took place within thirty - one years after Christ's death ; that is , according to the course of nature , in the lifetime , probably , of some of the Apostles ; and certainly in the lifetime of those who were converted by the ...
... observed , took place within thirty - one years after Christ's death ; that is , according to the course of nature , in the lifetime , probably , of some of the Apostles ; and certainly in the lifetime of those who were converted by the ...
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... point which has been already noticed , and which I think of importance to be observed , namely , the sufferings to which Chris- tians were exposed without any public persecu- tion being denounced 42 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY .
... point which has been already noticed , and which I think of importance to be observed , namely , the sufferings to which Chris- tians were exposed without any public persecu- tion being denounced 42 EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY .
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Page 523 - Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. 29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
Page 311 - Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently...
Page 93 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word : It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.
Page 356 - The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, 29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
Page 380 - And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither ; notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee. And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth ; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets ; He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 275 - Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death; and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Page 29 - 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 60 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Page 32 - ... 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 32 - Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.