The Cause and Cure of Infidelity: Including a Notice of the Author's Unbelief and the Means of His Rescue |
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... truth in favor of it - Etna and Vesuvius - Strata of lava- Chinese records of antiquity , • 4 Facts , such as unbelievers do not learn , 5 Men receive truth slowly , but error promptly - con- versation with a statesman , 6 " Scoffers ...
... truth in favor of it - Etna and Vesuvius - Strata of lava- Chinese records of antiquity , • 4 Facts , such as unbelievers do not learn , 5 Men receive truth slowly , but error promptly - con- versation with a statesman , 6 " Scoffers ...
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... truth ; it aids in continuing his want of knowledge ; it prevents his activity in search after facts which sustain the truth . As it regards the se- condary , or proximate cause , want of knowledge ; it sounds strange to speak of the ...
... truth ; it aids in continuing his want of knowledge ; it prevents his activity in search after facts which sustain the truth . As it regards the se- condary , or proximate cause , want of knowledge ; it sounds strange to speak of the ...
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... truth ; and the word darkness means falsehood . It does not seem to any one that he prefers falsehood to truth . The most prejudiced man thinks himself impartial . It is so on any subject . The most vehement politician thinks himself ...
... truth ; and the word darkness means falsehood . It does not seem to any one that he prefers falsehood to truth . The most prejudiced man thinks himself impartial . It is so on any subject . The most vehement politician thinks himself ...
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... truth ; but he stands on the declivity of a sinful nature . Every transgression , or sensual indul- gence , has added to the darkness of his soul , without his knowing it . Some examples of this must be given in the following chapter ...
... truth ; but he stands on the declivity of a sinful nature . Every transgression , or sensual indul- gence , has added to the darkness of his soul , without his knowing it . Some examples of this must be given in the following chapter ...
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... truth . See Stackhouse's History of the Bible . We gather from Moses that , between the creation and the deluge , there were ten generations of men , surpass- ing us greatly in longevity . It would be no tortured in- ference to suppose ...
... truth . See Stackhouse's History of the Bible . We gather from Moses that , between the creation and the deluge , there were ten generations of men , surpass- ing us greatly in longevity . It would be no tortured in- ference to suppose ...
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Page 38 - It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Page 305 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, And as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness; And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 282 - If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
Page 317 - After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it ; and it had ten horns.
Page 299 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united ! for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Page 283 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the LORD your God.
Page 126 - And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
Page 52 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21 Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains...
Page 285 - Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Page 139 - Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.