The Works of Leonard Woods, D.D.: Essays & sermonsJ.D. Flagg & W.H. Wardwell, 1850 - Congregational churches |
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... give prevalence to the truth ? Take those false opinions which are most pernicious . To an alarming extent you see them believed and defended . Men of learning and talent , and , in some instances , of respectable character , are ...
... give prevalence to the truth ? Take those false opinions which are most pernicious . To an alarming extent you see them believed and defended . Men of learning and talent , and , in some instances , of respectable character , are ...
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... give it success . Long and dreary has been the time in which error has borne sway . But the bright and glorious day will come , in which truth shall reign through the world , and shall reign forever . Happy are they who discover and ...
... give it success . Long and dreary has been the time in which error has borne sway . But the bright and glorious day will come , in which truth shall reign through the world , and shall reign forever . Happy are they who discover and ...
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... give up the divine authority of revelation . And if by mere reasoning we arrive at the knowledge of the truth , and then believe it merely because our reason has discovered it ; such faith is not so much the faith of a Christian , as of ...
... give up the divine authority of revelation . And if by mere reasoning we arrive at the knowledge of the truth , and then believe it merely because our reason has discovered it ; such faith is not so much the faith of a Christian , as of ...
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... give them the philosophy of the resurrection . The argu- ment he used to confute their objection was rhetorical , not philo- sophical . He vindicated an important doctrine of revelation by an apt analogy taken from the natural world ...
... give them the philosophy of the resurrection . The argu- ment he used to confute their objection was rhetorical , not philo- sophical . He vindicated an important doctrine of revelation by an apt analogy taken from the natural world ...
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... give the passages referred to as proofs , the meaning which accords with its own opinions . This is the great reason why the various denominations of Christians make , ordinarily , no approaches towards agreement in doctrine , by ...
... give the passages referred to as proofs , the meaning which accords with its own opinions . This is the great reason why the various denominations of Christians make , ordinarily , no approaches towards agreement in doctrine , by ...
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