An Exposition of the Creed, Volume 1At the Clarendon Press, 1797 - Apostles' Creed |
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... human autho- rity , and the testimony of God to Man , founded upon divine authority : which two kinds of teftimony are respective grounds of two kinds of credibility , Hu- man and Divine ; and confequently there is a two- fold Faith ...
... human autho- rity , and the testimony of God to Man , founded upon divine authority : which two kinds of teftimony are respective grounds of two kinds of credibility , Hu- man and Divine ; and confequently there is a two- fold Faith ...
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... Human Faith grounded upon the teftimony of Man . In which case we all by eafy experience may obferve the nature , generation and progrefs of Be- lief . For in any thing which belongeth to more than ordinary knowledge , we believe not ...
... Human Faith grounded upon the teftimony of Man . In which case we all by eafy experience may obferve the nature , generation and progrefs of Be- lief . For in any thing which belongeth to more than ordinary knowledge , we believe not ...
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... Human Faith . But what fatisfaction we cannot find in the tefti- mony of Man , we may receive in the teftimony of God . ( k ) If we receive the witness of Men , the witness John v . 9 . of God is greater . Yea , let God be true , the ...
... Human Faith . But what fatisfaction we cannot find in the tefti- mony of Man , we may receive in the teftimony of God . ( k ) If we receive the witness of Men , the witness John v . 9 . of God is greater . Yea , let God be true , the ...
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... human understanding . What then can be more clear , than that thofe natural Agents which work conftantly for thofe ends which they themselves cannot perceive , muft be directed by fome high and over - ruling Wifdom ? and who can be ...
... human understanding . What then can be more clear , than that thofe natural Agents which work conftantly for thofe ends which they themselves cannot perceive , muft be directed by fome high and over - ruling Wifdom ? and who can be ...
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... human generation , and of those relations which arife from thence , that he which is this day a fon , the next may prove a father , and within the fpace of one day more , without any real alteration in himself , become neither fon nor ...
... human generation , and of those relations which arife from thence , that he which is this day a fon , the next may prove a father , and within the fpace of one day more , without any real alteration in himself , become neither fon nor ...
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Page 166 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Page 235 - And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty ; but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Page 438 - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me : And I give unto them eternal life ; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My father which gave them me is greater than all ; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Page 421 - ... far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Page 10 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Page 231 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 174 - ... who, being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high ; being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Page 447 - 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 74 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 336 - And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.