American Presbyterian and Theological ReviewHenry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood C. Scribner, 1862 - Presbyterianism |
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... sense ? to be called metaphorical and not literal , popular and not exact , Biblical in contrast with scientific ? Of course , all that is necessary to make out that Dr. Emmons was not an Emmonsite , is to interpret his definite ...
... sense ? to be called metaphorical and not literal , popular and not exact , Biblical in contrast with scientific ? Of course , all that is necessary to make out that Dr. Emmons was not an Emmonsite , is to interpret his definite ...
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... sense , and it can easily be shown , that the most extreme men , when rightly understood , really mean just about what common mortals are always saying . A trifling difference of phraseology is all that is left . And perhaps this is the ...
... sense , and it can easily be shown , that the most extreme men , when rightly understood , really mean just about what common mortals are always saying . A trifling difference of phraseology is all that is left . And perhaps this is the ...
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... sense . But he knew nothing about a double sense . He tried to say just what he meant ; and if he had meant to say what his interpreters allege , he undoubtedly would and could have used the very words which they substitute for his ...
... sense . But he knew nothing about a double sense . He tried to say just what he meant ; and if he had meant to say what his interpreters allege , he undoubtedly would and could have used the very words which they substitute for his ...
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... sense of God's personal being and will , and of his entire distinction from the creature ; no theologian ever pressed the idea of creation from nothing more sharply and even exclusively . Some of the recent at- tempts at elucidating his ...
... sense of God's personal being and will , and of his entire distinction from the creature ; no theologian ever pressed the idea of creation from nothing more sharply and even exclusively . Some of the recent at- tempts at elucidating his ...
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... sense in the two cases . According to this explanation , it seems , that when this " exact " divine says that " God is the only efficient cause " , he means by " efficient " - " independent " ; and when he says , that " man is not the ...
... sense in the two cases . According to this explanation , it seems , that when this " exact " divine says that " God is the only efficient cause " , he means by " efficient " - " independent " ; and when he says , that " man is not the ...
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Page 419 - But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
Page 23 - Also a Cheap Edition in I vol., 6s. Gordon's (General) Last Journal. A Facsimile of the last Journal received in England from GENERAL GORDON. Reproduced by Photo-lithography. Imperial 410, £3 y. Events in his Life. From the Day of his Birth to the Day of his Death.
Page 222 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Page 705 - To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 223 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 718 - ... judgments in this land throughout all ages ; whereby this great and warlike nation, instructed and inured to the fervent and continual practice of truth and righteousness...
Page 336 - For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ; ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 647 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Page 528 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 742 - The day is past and over; All thanks, O LORD, to THEE...