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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... design is com- pletely answered - and my appointment , I truft , not wholly unfulfilled . Whatever obfervations my reading or me- ditation could fupply on the subject , these I have endeavoured to bring all together into one regular and ...
... design is com- pletely answered - and my appointment , I truft , not wholly unfulfilled . Whatever obfervations my reading or me- ditation could fupply on the subject , these I have endeavoured to bring all together into one regular and ...
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... design of religion in general ; and then confider the fitness and propriety of its feveral difpenfa- tions to promote and accomplish that design , through the various ftates and conditions of the world . For it is from the state and con ...
... design of religion in general ; and then confider the fitness and propriety of its feveral difpenfa- tions to promote and accomplish that design , through the various ftates and conditions of the world . For it is from the state and con ...
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... design to fhew how well the doctrines , which Chrift de- livered , were accommodated to the neceffi- ties , and fitted for the moral improvement , of the world : and alfo , how exquifitely the miracles he wrought , were adjusted to ...
... design to fhew how well the doctrines , which Chrift de- livered , were accommodated to the neceffi- ties , and fitted for the moral improvement , of the world : and alfo , how exquifitely the miracles he wrought , were adjusted to ...
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... design he had in view , when he produced those bodies into being . With refpect to the miracles , wrought in confirmation of particular doctrines , they are fo exquifitely appropriated to the nature " a . BROWN's Effays on the ...
... design he had in view , when he produced those bodies into being . With refpect to the miracles , wrought in confirmation of particular doctrines , they are fo exquifitely appropriated to the nature " a . BROWN's Effays on the ...
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... design , there arises a peculiar presumption in favour of fuch miracles , as are said to have been wrought in fupport of religion ° . " No , fays the infidel ; " and retorts upon us " if there be any prefumption , that miracles were ...
... design , there arises a peculiar presumption in favour of fuch miracles , as are said to have been wrought in fupport of religion ° . " No , fays the infidel ; " and retorts upon us " if there be any prefumption , that miracles were ...
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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.