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... known rather by their celebrity than by any authentic history . Here I speak only of prophane history ; for as to that of the Jews , our teachers and our ene- mies , whom we believe and detest at the same time , the history of this ...
... known rather by their celebrity than by any authentic history . Here I speak only of prophane history ; for as to that of the Jews , our teachers and our ene- mies , whom we believe and detest at the same time , the history of this ...
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... known to have done in the time of Solomon . Thus there is no forming an idea of its ancient flourishing state from its present barren condition , which is entirely owing to the want of culture . ( 3 ) One would imagine our author had ...
... known to have done in the time of Solomon . Thus there is no forming an idea of its ancient flourishing state from its present barren condition , which is entirely owing to the want of culture . ( 3 ) One would imagine our author had ...
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... known . Hereupon St. Thomas's Summary of Divinity may be consulted . Neither is it exactly known , where the angels keep themselves , whether in the air , the void , or the planets ; this God has thought fit to conceal from us ...
... known . Hereupon St. Thomas's Summary of Divinity may be consulted . Neither is it exactly known , where the angels keep themselves , whether in the air , the void , or the planets ; this God has thought fit to conceal from us ...
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... known among them ; and the custom of feed- ing on what they had killed , almost naturally led them to treat their enemies like their deer and boars . The sacrifice of human victims was the effect of superstition , the eating them was ...
... known among them ; and the custom of feed- ing on what they had killed , almost naturally led them to treat their enemies like their deer and boars . The sacrifice of human victims was the effect of superstition , the eating them was ...
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... known ; and this historian , from an in- conceivable prepossession , will have it that Vanini spoke only out of " vanity or fear , and " not from a sincere persuasion . " What grounds could the President Gramont have for such a rash and ...
... known ; and this historian , from an in- conceivable prepossession , will have it that Vanini spoke only out of " vanity or fear , and " not from a sincere persuasion . " What grounds could the President Gramont have for such a rash and ...
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Page 181 - The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 8 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment...
Page 97 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Page 308 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 12 - ... thus saith the Lord God ; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Page 272 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 96 - For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law : but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.
Page 155 - But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
Page 155 - Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love ; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.
Page 113 - We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things, visible and invisible: And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father...