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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... fame . They affect the title of philofophers , while it is their оссира- tion to diffuade us from wifdom ; not to dif cover truth , but to diftort it . They have been embodied under various leaders ; but the cham- pions are all subtle ...
... fame . They affect the title of philofophers , while it is their оссира- tion to diffuade us from wifdom ; not to dif cover truth , but to diftort it . They have been embodied under various leaders ; but the cham- pions are all subtle ...
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... fame time as deftitute of originality , as they are void of folid convic- tion ! The miracles of our bleffed Mafter could not be denied by those who saw them ; but , agree- ably to the prejudices of the times , they were afcribed to the ...
... fame time as deftitute of originality , as they are void of folid convic- tion ! The miracles of our bleffed Mafter could not be denied by those who saw them ; but , agree- ably to the prejudices of the times , they were afcribed to the ...
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... which prove that all effects proceed from one and the fame origin , and contribute to promote one grand and complete defign . 1 d Li ke xii . 6 ; 7 . Modern sceptics have attempted to refer the admirable contrivance of 38 LECTURE II .
... which prove that all effects proceed from one and the fame origin , and contribute to promote one grand and complete defign . 1 d Li ke xii . 6 ; 7 . Modern sceptics have attempted to refer the admirable contrivance of 38 LECTURE II .
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... fame animal or vegetable . Animated forms could not be fupported , be- cause they would be defective in necessary and indifpenfable organs ; the process of vegetation would be interrupted in plants from a fimilar deficiency . Now ...
... fame animal or vegetable . Animated forms could not be fupported , be- cause they would be defective in necessary and indifpenfable organs ; the process of vegetation would be interrupted in plants from a fimilar deficiency . Now ...
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... fame peculiar traces of skill , which we difcover in the artificial works of men of eminent ingenuity . Thus all the works of God tend to harmony and con- gruity of defign , in the fame manner as in the fyftems of the heavenly bodies ...
... fame peculiar traces of skill , which we difcover in the artificial works of men of eminent ingenuity . Thus all the works of God tend to harmony and con- gruity of defign , in the fame manner as in the fyftems of the heavenly bodies ...
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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.