Controversial Tracts on Christianity and MohammedanismBy Henry Martyn and some of the most eminent writers of Persia Mirza Ibrahim, Mohammed Ruza of Hamadan translated and explained: to which is appended an additional tract on the same question, and, in a preface, some account given of a former controversy on this subject, with extracts from it Dedicated to the right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool by the Rev. S. Lee. With the Portriat of Mr. Martyn. |
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... one person . The Padre cuts this gordian knot by replying , that God is unlike his creatures . To which the Moola is made " I almost . اکنون نزديك است که بفهمم to answer understand it now . " The Padre next shews , xxvi PREFACE .
... one person . The Padre cuts this gordian knot by replying , that God is unlike his creatures . To which the Moola is made " I almost . اکنون نزديك است که بفهمم to answer understand it now . " The Padre next shews , xxvi PREFACE .
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... replies ; By this mode of arguing , a qua- ternity is proved . God is the knowing , and the known , the desiring , and the desired ! The Padre replies , No ; This is not allowable , because we do not acknowledge a plurality in God ...
... replies ; By this mode of arguing , a qua- ternity is proved . God is the knowing , and the known , the desiring , and the desired ! The Padre replies , No ; This is not allowable , because we do not acknowledge a plurality in God ...
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... replies , that however unanswerable this may seem , he will answer it by shewing , in the first place , in what sense Jesus is said to be God ; and , in the second , by replying to • his objections . After God had created the world ...
... replies , that however unanswerable this may seem , he will answer it by shewing , in the first place , in what sense Jesus is said to be God ; and , in the second , by replying to • his objections . After God had created the world ...
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... REPLY TO XAVIER'S BOOK . After finding this book in the Library of Queen's College , I had the good fortune to lay my hand on the reply which was written to it a few years after its appearance . This reply consists of about 350 pages in ...
... REPLY TO XAVIER'S BOOK . After finding this book in the Library of Queen's College , I had the good fortune to lay my hand on the reply which was written to it a few years after its appearance . This reply consists of about 350 pages in ...
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... by this writer is , an assertion on the part of Xavier , that Christians could not receive Mohammed because Christ had warned them of false prophets , who should here- after come and deceive many . In reply to this xlii PREFACE .
... by this writer is , an assertion on the part of Xavier , that Christians could not receive Mohammed because Christ had warned them of false prophets , who should here- after come and deceive many . In reply to this xlii PREFACE .
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Page 571 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Page 571 - And why take ye thought for raiment. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil not neither do they spin ; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 119 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Page 576 - But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
Page 534 - And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death ; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God...
Page 533 - LORD ; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. 22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen : let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them ; or declare us things for to come. 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods : yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
Page 575 - For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality; then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Page 550 - Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks : the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Page 571 - Therefore take no thought, saying ; What shall we eat ; or What shall we drink ; or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the Gentiles seek ; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. ' But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness ; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 273 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee ; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.