Origines Sacrae: Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1817 - Apologetics |
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... probable reason , why philoso- phy and idolatry did increase so much together as they did ; for though right reason , fully improved , would have overthrown all those cursed and idolatrous practices among the Heathens ; yet reason ...
... probable reason , why philoso- phy and idolatry did increase so much together as they did ; for though right reason , fully improved , would have overthrown all those cursed and idolatrous practices among the Heathens ; yet reason ...
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... probable to me , that after the death of the first leader , by reason of their poverty and dispersedness of habitations , they did not incorporate generally into any civil government under one head , but did rise by degrees in the ...
... probable to me , that after the death of the first leader , by reason of their poverty and dispersedness of habitations , they did not incorporate generally into any civil government under one head , but did rise by degrees in the ...
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... probable , which learned men have long since observed , that the name Cadmus comes from the Hebrew Kedem , and may relate as an appellative either to his dignity , as Junius in his Academia conjec- tures , or more probably to his ...
... probable , which learned men have long since observed , that the name Cadmus comes from the Hebrew Kedem , and may relate as an appellative either to his dignity , as Junius in his Academia conjec- tures , or more probably to his ...
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... probable that Suidas should be corrected by that ; he bringing no other evidence of any such person as Cadmus a son of Ogyges , but only that reading in Suidas ; whereas we have discovered many probable grounds to make them both the ...
... probable that Suidas should be corrected by that ; he bringing no other evidence of any such person as Cadmus a son of Ogyges , but only that reading in Suidas ; whereas we have discovered many probable grounds to make them both the ...
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... form of the letters , the order and the names of them . It seems probable that at first they might use the form of in Eufeb . Chron . n . 1617 . Bochart . the Phoenician letters , in which Herodotus tells 20 ORIGINES SACRE .
... form of the letters , the order and the names of them . It seems probable that at first they might use the form of in Eufeb . Chron . n . 1617 . Bochart . the Phoenician letters , in which Herodotus tells 20 ORIGINES SACRE .
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Page 156 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 244 - THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life ; (for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us...
Page 305 - IF there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them...
Page 190 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary ; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 191 - Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt ; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD.
Page 156 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us...
Page 304 - And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming : even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 166 - And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Page 243 - 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 281 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.