The intent and propriety of the Scripture miracles considered and explained, sermons preached in 1769,1770 and 1771 for the lect. founded by the hon. R. Boyle, Volume 11773 |
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... carried on by various means , and in va- rious forms , through the several periods of the world - they will fee the propriety of thefe forms and methods , in their adapta- tion to the state and circumftances of the time in which they ...
... carried on by various means , and in va- rious forms , through the several periods of the world - they will fee the propriety of thefe forms and methods , in their adapta- tion to the state and circumftances of the time in which they ...
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... carry with them ; we shall find them fufficient , in all reafon , to evince the truth of those difpenfations , of which they make fo remarkable a part . # John iii . 2 . Indeed , Indeed , the fufficiency of them for this purpose is 10 ...
... carry with them ; we shall find them fufficient , in all reafon , to evince the truth of those difpenfations , of which they make fo remarkable a part . # John iii . 2 . Indeed , Indeed , the fufficiency of them for this purpose is 10 ...
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... carry on the improvement of the world . Their exiftence therefore may be clearly deduced from the manifeft improve- ment , which mankind are allowed to have made in religious knowledge and moral practice . In a word , the Jewish and ...
... carry on the improvement of the world . Their exiftence therefore may be clearly deduced from the manifeft improve- ment , which mankind are allowed to have made in religious knowledge and moral practice . In a word , the Jewish and ...
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... carry them round in their orbits . No man will contend , that it requires a greater power to deluge the earth , or to divide the fea , than it did at firft to create them ; and does ftill to preferve them in their prefent state . No man ...
... carry them round in their orbits . No man will contend , that it requires a greater power to deluge the earth , or to divide the fea , than it did at firft to create them ; and does ftill to preferve them in their prefent state . No man ...
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... carried on , and the fame ends be accomplished , as well without the interpofition of them , as with it and therefore may conclude , that they were pur- pofely introduced , either to enliven a dull narration , or to answer fome bafe ...
... carried on , and the fame ends be accomplished , as well without the interpofition of them , as with it and therefore may conclude , that they were pur- pofely introduced , either to enliven a dull narration , or to answer fome bafe ...
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Page xiii - And they said go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city, and the tower which the children of men builded.
Page 171 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page xii - 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 xiv - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Page xii - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 216 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page xv - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 289 - For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Page 277 - For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them : but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Page 172 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.