New Family Library ...T. Affleck, 1835 - Apologetics |
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... evil , is one that has exercised the mind of man ever since he began to investigate into the nature and causes of the moral phenomena around him , The fact itself of the existence of moral evil , however it may have been attempted to ...
... evil , is one that has exercised the mind of man ever since he began to investigate into the nature and causes of the moral phenomena around him , The fact itself of the existence of moral evil , however it may have been attempted to ...
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... evil was introduced into the world ? Phi- losophy has tried it in vain , and the universal voice of humanity over all the earth sends us back to tradition ; and this tradition is again in accordance with the account of Moses . He gives ...
... evil was introduced into the world ? Phi- losophy has tried it in vain , and the universal voice of humanity over all the earth sends us back to tradition ; and this tradition is again in accordance with the account of Moses . He gives ...
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... evil feelings towards God ; but we might have supposed that the law of fatherly , and filial , and brotherly affection , was too indelibly written on the heart of man to require any positive precept to inculcate it as a duty . We do not ...
... evil feelings towards God ; but we might have supposed that the law of fatherly , and filial , and brotherly affection , was too indelibly written on the heart of man to require any positive precept to inculcate it as a duty . We do not ...
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... evil ? Has it revealed to us a God , whose character is more consistent with every thing holy and lofty that the imagination can conceive , than the Eternal Jehovah , who con- descended to be the temporal king of the Jews ? Has it ...
... evil ? Has it revealed to us a God , whose character is more consistent with every thing holy and lofty that the imagination can conceive , than the Eternal Jehovah , who con- descended to be the temporal king of the Jews ? Has it ...
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... had really be- come gods , knowing good and evil . In consistence with this view of the subject , it is a common and a very probable inter- pretation , that supposes there is a deep and bitter 74 THE TRUTH MAINTAINED BY JUDGMENTS .
... had really be- come gods , knowing good and evil . In consistence with this view of the subject , it is a common and a very probable inter- pretation , that supposes there is a deep and bitter 74 THE TRUTH MAINTAINED BY JUDGMENTS .
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Page 536 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 485 - I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death ; if by any...
Page 507 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly, that it might not rain ; and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 534 - God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Page 436 - I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren : that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Page 604 - He overthroweth the words of the transgressor. anb ||Y son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee ; so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding ; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of GOD.
Page 522 - And to whom sware He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that believed not ? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Page 471 - And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life ; and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son, hath life ; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Page 597 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 559 - Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth : who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously...