An Analysis of Paley's Evidences of Christianity: In the Way of Question and Answer, with a Selection of Questions for Self-examination, Designed for the Use of Students in Divinity, as Well as for Counteracting the Progress of Infidelity Amongst the Middle Classes of Society |
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... racter of the persons employed in it ; the oppo- sition of their tenets to the fixed opinions and expectations of their country ; their undissembled condemnation of all other religions ; their total want of power , and authority ...
... racter of the persons employed in it ; the oppo- sition of their tenets to the fixed opinions and expectations of their country ; their undissembled condemnation of all other religions ; their total want of power , and authority ...
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... racter , conspicuous in the three first Gospels , is preserved , under separate examples , in that of St. John ? A. His meekness during his last sufferings . The answer given by him , in St. John xviii . 20 , 21. when the high priest ...
... racter , conspicuous in the three first Gospels , is preserved , under separate examples , in that of St. John ? A. His meekness during his last sufferings . The answer given by him , in St. John xviii . 20 , 21. when the high priest ...
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... racter ascribed to a particular person ; of a doc- trine , the truth whereof depended entirely upon the truth of a matter of fact then recent . If men , in these days , be Christians in conse- quence of education , submission to ...
... racter ascribed to a particular person ; of a doc- trine , the truth whereof depended entirely upon the truth of a matter of fact then recent . If men , in these days , be Christians in conse- quence of education , submission to ...
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... racter which he claimed ; and the second supplied them with just such an excuse as they wanted . Q. What else does this . state of opinion dis- cover ? A. Why the Jews should reject miracles which they saw , yet rely so much upon the ...
... racter which he claimed ; and the second supplied them with just such an excuse as they wanted . Q. What else does this . state of opinion dis- cover ? A. Why the Jews should reject miracles which they saw , yet rely so much upon the ...
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Page 31 - 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 165 - And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people ; and...
Page 193 - 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 23 - For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows, then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you. And ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Page 143 - And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging : to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. 24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
Page 19 - The founder of that name was Christ, who suffered death in. the reign of Tiberius, under his procurator Pontius Pilate. This pernicious superstition, thus checked for a while, broke out again, and spread not only over Judea, where the evil originated, but through Rome also, whither every thing bad upon the earth finds its way, and is practised.
Page 160 - ... circumstances in which they consist, to the places in which those circumstances occur, and the circuitous references by which they are traced out) demonstrates that they have not been produced by meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. But coincidences, from which these causes are excluded, and which are too close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental concurrences of fiction, must necessarily have truth for their foundation.
Page 195 - And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
Page 7 - I remark a want of argumentative justice, that, in describing the improbability of miracles, he suppresses all those circumstances of extenuation, which result from our knowledge of the existence, power, and disposition of the Deity, his concern in the creation, the end answered by the miracle, the importance of that end, and its subserviency to the plan pursued in the work of nature.
Page 111 - 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.