The Cause and Cure of Infidelity: Including a Notice of the Author's Unbelief, and the Means of His Rescue |
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... concerning the Book of Books , the Bible . The call for such an attempt , — the necessity for it at the present time , -we think fair ly inferible from the following facts . FIRST FACT . - It is true , that in 1 * The subject continued ...
... concerning the Book of Books , the Bible . The call for such an attempt , — the necessity for it at the present time , -we think fair ly inferible from the following facts . FIRST FACT . - It is true , that in 1 * The subject continued ...
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... concerning Etna , would have resumed their faith as soon as these Vesuvian facts were placed before them ? No , it was not so . It was easy to descend , but they never re - ascended . Men love darkness rather than light . Thousands who ...
... concerning Etna , would have resumed their faith as soon as these Vesuvian facts were placed before them ? No , it was not so . It was easy to descend , but they never re - ascended . Men love darkness rather than light . Thousands who ...
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... concerning extracts from Berosus the Chaldean ; Nicolaus of Damascus ; Manetho the Egyp tian , or others : what they may have said of the ruins of a great ship , in their day remaining in the moun . tains of Armenia , he did not appear ...
... concerning extracts from Berosus the Chaldean ; Nicolaus of Damascus ; Manetho the Egyp tian , or others : what they may have said of the ruins of a great ship , in their day remaining in the moun . tains of Armenia , he did not appear ...
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... concerning Sardis , that the Redeemer's promise of sal- vation from the hour of trial , was penned ? How tri- umphantly would the event have been noticed by the opposers of Holy Writ ! Suppose the Saviour had said of Philadelphia , ' I ...
... concerning Sardis , that the Redeemer's promise of sal- vation from the hour of trial , was penned ? How tri- umphantly would the event have been noticed by the opposers of Holy Writ ! Suppose the Saviour had said of Philadelphia , ' I ...
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... concerning the destruction of Babylon , mentioned as evidence that the writer saw into futurity . With me it weighs nothing . Any one might guess that a proud city would come to ruin ; and the common tendency of things to revolution ...
... concerning the destruction of Babylon , mentioned as evidence that the writer saw into futurity . With me it weighs nothing . Any one might guess that a proud city would come to ruin ; and the common tendency of things to revolution ...
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Page 292 - Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him: and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Page 24 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Page 114 - These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them : for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings : and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Page 19 - Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer; behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried ; and ye shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Page 110 - And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
Page 110 - The beast that thou sawest, was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition : and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, (whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world,) when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Page 292 - He was taken from prison, and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation ? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Page 18 - Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works ; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Page 285 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united...
Page 302 - Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.