The Cause and Cure of Infidelity: With an Account of the Author's Conversion ...J. S. Taylor, 1837 - 348 pages |
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... strange to speak of the ignorance of the learned . This seeming contradiction will be fully explained after a time . For the present , we must begin with the original cause . Man's depravity claims our notice first . CHAPTER II . MAN IS ...
... strange to speak of the ignorance of the learned . This seeming contradiction will be fully explained after a time . For the present , we must begin with the original cause . Man's depravity claims our notice first . CHAPTER II . MAN IS ...
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... strange hunger- ing and thirsting after little falsehood , rather than the wonders of glorious truth ? It is because men love dark- ness rather than light . Those who had cast away all re- verence for Holy Writ , as soon as some one ...
... strange hunger- ing and thirsting after little falsehood , rather than the wonders of glorious truth ? It is because men love dark- ness rather than light . Those who had cast away all re- verence for Holy Writ , as soon as some one ...
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... strange , but it is not hard to prove . The matter may be easily tested . The scoffers live now ; and you may approach and converse with them . During a ten years ' search , you are not likely to find one exception to the general ...
... strange , but it is not hard to prove . The matter may be easily tested . The scoffers live now ; and you may approach and converse with them . During a ten years ' search , you are not likely to find one exception to the general ...
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... strange assertion , that the learned are included in the class of the wilfully ignorant . We will here ask the reader some questions , such as he may ask any who now live , and who now deride the Bible . Questions . - The Hebrew ...
... strange assertion , that the learned are included in the class of the wilfully ignorant . We will here ask the reader some questions , such as he may ask any who now live , and who now deride the Bible . Questions . - The Hebrew ...
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... strange , for they did not know what he had said , or that any thing was written about almost any nation or city , that could be mentioned to them . Those of them , who had read the Bible through , did not know that the things we have ...
... strange , for they did not know what he had said , or that any thing was written about almost any nation or city , that could be mentioned to them . Those of them , who had read the Bible through , did not know that the things we have ...
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Page 51 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains ; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
Page 121 - 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 291 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united ! for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Page 271 - For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Page 296 - For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, And as a root out of a dry ground. He hath no form nor comeliness; And when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Page 121 - 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 275 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger : I am the LORD your God.
Page 301 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary ; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 277 - Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Page 31 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.