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... human testimony , or the accumulation of proba- bilities from the uniform operation of the laws of nature . This last evidence rests on the self - evident proposition , that no effect can exist without a cause— that what has been and is ...
... human testimony , or the accumulation of proba- bilities from the uniform operation of the laws of nature . This last evidence rests on the self - evident proposition , that no effect can exist without a cause— that what has been and is ...
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... human attainment , in throwing off reluctant respon- sibility to the government of God . The Atheist does not know that there is no God . He merely does not believe it , and doubts . The Deist does not disbelieve the inspiration of the ...
... human attainment , in throwing off reluctant respon- sibility to the government of God . The Atheist does not know that there is no God . He merely does not believe it , and doubts . The Deist does not disbelieve the inspiration of the ...
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... human ingenuity could invent , or human power execute , was unpractised . These abominations of ecclesiastical despotism , have brought upon christi- anity an odium , and surrounded the system with a jealousy , which the Protestant ...
... human ingenuity could invent , or human power execute , was unpractised . These abominations of ecclesiastical despotism , have brought upon christi- anity an odium , and surrounded the system with a jealousy , which the Protestant ...
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... human mind - to matter and to mind , in the endless relations of cause and effect , motive and choice ; and so far as the properties and laws of created things lie within the cognizance of our faculties , they constitute the material of ...
... human mind - to matter and to mind , in the endless relations of cause and effect , motive and choice ; and so far as the properties and laws of created things lie within the cognizance of our faculties , they constitute the material of ...
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... human government , and recognized and sanctioned in the bible , and as employed by the holy spirit in convincing men of sin , and of God's justice in their condemnation . If they are not absurd , nothing is absurd , and if they are not ...
... human government , and recognized and sanctioned in the bible , and as employed by the holy spirit in convincing men of sin , and of God's justice in their condemnation . If they are not absurd , nothing is absurd , and if they are not ...
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Page 147 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me," even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and...
Page 73 - For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Page 8 - Saviour ; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying ; Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
Page 8 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 98 - Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 26 - Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people...
Page 146 - For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Page 159 - If you thus behave yourselves, and so become a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well...
Page 7 - Chap. iii. know also, that in the last -*- days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of GOD ; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof : from such turn away.
Page 150 - This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.