The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Conyers Middleton ...R. Manby, 1755 - Lord's Supper |
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... several offerings made on that account to the Sacred Image , for many centuries past , down to these very times ; from the notoriety of which facts it became a proverb over Italy , that the Florentines had got a Madonna , which did for ...
... several offerings made on that account to the Sacred Image , for many centuries past , down to these very times ; from the notoriety of which facts it became a proverb over Italy , that the Florentines had got a Madonna , which did for ...
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... several , who had long been worshipped in France , as the Tutelary Divi of fome of their principal Towns : fo that it ufed to be faid of him , " that there never paffed " a year , in which he did not pluck a Saint out " of Paradife [ a ] ...
... several , who had long been worshipped in France , as the Tutelary Divi of fome of their principal Towns : fo that it ufed to be faid of him , " that there never paffed " a year , in which he did not pluck a Saint out " of Paradife [ a ] ...
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... Serces , has given a large collection of thefe falfifications , made to support their several frands and innovations . VOL . V. D teftimonial 1 teftimonial of them , as will be fufficient for to the LETTER from ROME . 49.
... Serces , has given a large collection of thefe falfifications , made to support their several frands and innovations . VOL . V. D teftimonial 1 teftimonial of them , as will be fufficient for to the LETTER from ROME . 49.
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... several other arguments for the divinity of our religion , fo ftrong and conclu five , that even miracles themselves , as he declares , would not be fufficient to over - rule them His marks however are fo far certainly good , [ a ] See ...
... several other arguments for the divinity of our religion , fo ftrong and conclu five , that even miracles themselves , as he declares , would not be fufficient to over - rule them His marks however are fo far certainly good , [ a ] See ...
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... several might be pro- duced both from Popery and Paganism , which feem to poffefs them all , and are yet unquestion- ably falfe . W I have charged the Popish Church in my Letter with many inftances of forged miracles , to which this ...
... several might be pro- duced both from Popery and Paganism , which feem to poffefs them all , and are yet unquestion- ably falfe . W I have charged the Popish Church in my Letter with many inftances of forged miracles , to which this ...
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Page 267 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 308 - Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil ; the harvest is the end of the world ; and the reapers are the angels.
Page 106 - ... we presently make a vow to God, or one of his saints, to whom upon our recovery we make an offering of that hand or foot in wax : which custom is now come to that extravagance, that we do the same thing for our...
Page 40 - I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
Page 313 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
Page 206 - For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
Page 313 - Germany, in the affairs of trade, had an opportunity of informing himself of the whole method and process of the art ; and by the encouragement of the great, and particularly of the abbot of Westminster, first set up a press in that abbey, and began to print books soon after the year 1471.
Page 136 - Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: and ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Page 244 - Scripture itself, which assert that "all Scripture" or " every Scripture " is given by " Inspiration of God " (2 Tim. iii. 16) ; " That the prophecy came not of old by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost
Page 180 - All three are probably not remote in date from the church itself, which would seem to have been built about the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 5th century.