Observations on the conversion and apostleship of st. Paul, a letter [by G. Lyttelton.]. |
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... ascribing it to an event which lay fo open to detection . For ( to use the words of St. Paul to Agrippa ) this thing was not done in a corner * , but in the eye of the world , and fubject immediately to the examination of those who ...
... ascribing it to an event which lay fo open to detection . For ( to use the words of St. Paul to Agrippa ) this thing was not done in a corner * , but in the eye of the world , and fubject immediately to the examination of those who ...
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... ascribe that fuccefs to no other cause , but the power of God going along with and aiding his ministry , because no other was equal to the effect . Having then fhewn that St. Paul had no rational motives Having 74 Obfervations on the ...
... ascribe that fuccefs to no other cause , but the power of God going along with and aiding his ministry , because no other was equal to the effect . Having then fhewn that St. Paul had no rational motives Having 74 Obfervations on the ...
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... live . ' I will add no more instances : these are sufficient to fhew that the miracles told of St. Paul , can no < * Acts xxvii . more more be ascribed to enthusiasm than to im- posture . 100 Obfervations on the Converfion.
... live . ' I will add no more instances : these are sufficient to fhew that the miracles told of St. Paul , can no < * Acts xxvii . more more be ascribed to enthusiasm than to im- posture . 100 Obfervations on the Converfion.
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... ascribed to enthufiafm ? If the Corinthians knew that they had among them no fuch miraculous powers , they must have regarded the au- thor of that Epistle as a man out of his fenfes , instead of revering him as an Apostle of God . If ...
... ascribed to enthufiafm ? If the Corinthians knew that they had among them no fuch miraculous powers , they must have regarded the au- thor of that Epistle as a man out of his fenfes , instead of revering him as an Apostle of God . If ...
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... ascribe to imagination the fame omnipotence which he afcribes to God . Having thus , I flatter myself , fatisfactorily fhewn that St. Paul could not be an enthusiast , who by the force of an over - heated imagina- tion imposed on ...
... ascribe to imagination the fame omnipotence which he afcribes to God . Having thus , I flatter myself , fatisfactorily fhewn that St. Paul could not be an enthusiast , who by the force of an over - heated imagina- tion imposed on ...
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Page 69 - Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors : but when we had opened, we found no man within.
Page 74 - So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth ; but God that giveth the increase.
Page 74 - But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Page 6 - For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us; for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you, neither did we eat any man's bread for nought, but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you ; not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Page 75 - THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have no charity, I am nothing.
Page 25 - God, for which ye also suffer: seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels...