| John Chappel Woodhouse - Bible - 1805 - 696 pages
...itself is designedly obscure : " For God gave " such predictions not to gratify men's curiosity '* by enabling them to foreknow things ; but " that after...fulfilled, they might be " interpreted by the event, and his own provi" dence, not that of the interpreter, be then " manifested thereby to the worldf." This... | |
| 1806 - 606 pages
...Newton ; " God gave these, and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men*s curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things ; but that after...fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own providence, not the interpreter's, be then manifested to the world." The good sense, the sagacity,... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 596 pages
...contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them...fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the interpreter's, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them...fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the interpreter's, be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of... | |
| Richard Hurd - Antichrist - 1809 - 356 pages
...unfold the sealed prophecies concerning * " God gave this, and the prophecies of the Old/Testament, not " to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the " event ; and his own pro\ idence, not the interpreter's, be then mani " fested thereby to the world." Sir I. Neviton,... | |
| Joseph Galloway - Bible - 1809 - 406 pages
...Newton, that " the design of " God in giving the prophecies was not to grat" ify the curiosities of men by enabling them " to foreknow things ; but that after...were " fulfilled they might be interpreted by the " events and his own providence, and not that " of the interpreter's ; and that thus it might " be... | |
| 1810 - 708 pages
...gave this and the prophecies of the Old Tcftament, not to gratify men's curiofities by enabling then to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own providence, not the interpreter's, be then manifeftcd thereby to the world. For the event of... | |
| English literature - 1810 - 700 pages
...prophecies of the Old Teftament, not to gratify men's curiofities by enabling them to foreknow thing*, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own providence, not the interpreter's, be then mantfeftcd thereby to the world. For the event of... | |
| Montagu Pennington - Redemption - 1811 - 424 pages
...; Moses wrote of me ; This day is this scripture * " God gave the prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men's curiosities by enabling them...fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event ; and his own providence, not the interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world." Sir Isaac Newton,... | |
| Religion - 1811 - 708 pages
...469. t P. 459. 502, 503. 511. \ 2 Pet. i. 19. 1 Pet. i. 10, 11, 12. not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things ; but that after...fulfilled, they might be interpreted by the event, and his own providence, not that of the interpreter, be then manifested thereby to the world*." This same... | |
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