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Page 57 - Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer...
Page 130 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Page 56 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 204 - We have not received/ saith Irenseus, 'the knowledge of the way of our salvation by any others than those by whom the gospel has been brought to us. Which gospel they first preached, and afterwards, by the will of God, committed to writing, that it might be for time to come the foundation and pillar of our faith.
Page 353 - I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land ; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
Page 160 - And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Page 56 - Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Page viii - ... to continue; suppose a part of the creation to have received faculties from their Maker, by which they are capable of rendering a moral obedience to his will, and of voluntarily pursuing any end for which he has designed them; suppose the Creator to intend for these, his rational and accountable agents, a second state of existence, in which their situation will be regulated by their behaviour in the first state...
Page 204 - Mark also, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, delivered to us in writing the things that had been preached by Peter.
Page 132 - Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father : but go unto my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, unto my God and your God...
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| Title | A View of the Evidences of Christianity: In Three Parts, Volume 1 A View of the Evidences of Christianity: In Three Parts, William Paley A view of the evidences of Christianity, William Paley |
| Author | William Paley |
| Edition | 12 |
| Publisher | R. Faulder, 1800 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2007 |
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