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... strong and bright notions of things ; who have a ful- nefs of fenfe and fervour of fpirit ; who are fin - ` cerely concern'd and entirely fatisfied of the truth and importance of the matters of fact affirm'd , and the doctrines ...
... strong and bright notions of things ; who have a ful- nefs of fenfe and fervour of fpirit ; who are fin - ` cerely concern'd and entirely fatisfied of the truth and importance of the matters of fact affirm'd , and the doctrines ...
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... strong reafon . St. Ferom is high- ly offended at St. Paul for paffing from jusïs oi πνευματικοὶ καταρτίζετε το σκοπών σεαυτὸν μὴ καὶ σὺ πει- ρασθῇς 2. Te that are fpiritual reftore a brother over- taken in a fault , confidering thy ...
... strong reafon . St. Ferom is high- ly offended at St. Paul for paffing from jusïs oi πνευματικοὶ καταρτίζετε το σκοπών σεαυτὸν μὴ καὶ σὺ πει- ρασθῇς 2. Te that are fpiritual reftore a brother over- taken in a fault , confidering thy ...
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... strong and comprehensive way of expreffion , he is faid to do ; what he diffuades or advises against , he is faid not to fuffer to be done ; what he offers , to give ; and what he mifes , to perform . In this fenfe Herod says , I be ...
... strong and comprehensive way of expreffion , he is faid to do ; what he diffuades or advises against , he is faid not to fuffer to be done ; what he offers , to give ; and what he mifes , to perform . In this fenfe Herod says , I be ...
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... strong reasons , be a neglect of grammar , the critics must at least ex- cule it , becaufe ' tis frequent , and admir'd as em- phatical and a beauty in Homer and Virgil , in Xe- nophon and Plato , and all the sublimest writers in both ...
... strong reasons , be a neglect of grammar , the critics must at least ex- cule it , becaufe ' tis frequent , and admir'd as em- phatical and a beauty in Homer and Virgil , in Xe- nophon and Plato , and all the sublimest writers in both ...
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... strong e- nough , have been fo complaifant to put in one they vainly imagin'd more proper and expreffive ; which is πονηρὸν * . 4. Εκτορα δίον αεικέα μήδετο not . Longin . 223. Ed . Tollii . Chryfoftom on the place . ἔργα . ιλ . χ . v ...
... strong e- nough , have been fo complaifant to put in one they vainly imagin'd more proper and expreffive ; which is πονηρὸν * . 4. Εκτορα δίον αεικέα μήδετο not . Longin . 223. Ed . Tollii . Chryfoftom on the place . ἔργα . ιλ . χ . v ...
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Page 204 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Page 202 - The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high ; who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth...
Page 263 - For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming? For ye are our glory and our joy.
Page 47 - Critick ought to dwell rather upon Excellencies than Imperfections, to difcover the concealed Beauties of a Writer, and communicate to the World fuch things as are worth their Obfervation. The moft exquifite Words...
Page 297 - And the fon faid unto him, Father, I have finned againft heaven, and in thy fight, and am no more worthy to be called thy 22 fon.
Page 107 - Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come. And when thofe beafts give glory, and honour, and thanks to him that fat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, the four and twenty elders fall down before him that fat on the throne, and worfhip him that liveth for ever and ever, and...
Page 226 - ... stranger to what had passed there; their acknowledgment to one they met accidentally that they had believed in this prophet ; and that now, the third day after his death, they were in doubt as to their pleasing hope, which occasioned the heaviness he took notice of; are all represented in a style which men of letters call ' the great and noble simplicity.
Page 72 - The Lord grant to him, that he may find mercy from the Lord in that day : and in how many things he ministered to me in Ephesus, thou well knowest.
Page 165 - That all the Excellencies of Style, and fublime Beauties of Language and genuine 'Eloquence do abound in the Sacred Writers of the New Teftament. With an Account of their Style and Character, and a Reprefentation of their Superiority , in feveral Inftances, to the belt Claffics of Greece and Rome.
Page 180 - this just person (the inspired teacher of whom he had been speaking) must be poor, and void of all qualifications but those of virtue alone ; that a wicked world would not bear his instructions and reproofs ; and, therefore, within three or four years after he began to preach, he should be persecuted, imprisoned, scourged, and, at last, be put to death...