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... revelation , still , so long as they are acknowledged to be duties , and men own their obligation , they cannot pretend , that they contain any thing unworthy of God , or con- trary to reason . Among the adversaries of Christianity ...
... revelation , still , so long as they are acknowledged to be duties , and men own their obligation , they cannot pretend , that they contain any thing unworthy of God , or con- trary to reason . Among the adversaries of Christianity ...
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... revelation contains any thing contrary to reason , implies a contradiction in the very terms : For , as God gave us both reason and revelation , it is inconsistent with his justice and goodness , to give us faculties to de- ceive us ...
... revelation contains any thing contrary to reason , implies a contradiction in the very terms : For , as God gave us both reason and revelation , it is inconsistent with his justice and goodness , to give us faculties to de- ceive us ...
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... revelation of his will to men , there should be some doctrines , which are above our capacities to explain , why are we not equally obliged to believe them , as well as those truths in natural knowledge , which we cannot solve , or the ...
... revelation of his will to men , there should be some doctrines , which are above our capacities to explain , why are we not equally obliged to believe them , as well as those truths in natural knowledge , which we cannot solve , or the ...
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... revelation , which are self - evident or demonstrable by reason , we shew no regard to the veracity of God and his testimony ; for we should have believed them , had they been affirmed by the most fallible men , because they carry their ...
... revelation , which are self - evident or demonstrable by reason , we shew no regard to the veracity of God and his testimony ; for we should have believed them , had they been affirmed by the most fallible men , because they carry their ...
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... revelation , and by the guidance of reason , into the nature of the doctrines contained in it , whether they be contrary to it or not : and when we are con- vinced of these two points , all that we insist upon is , that if , upon ...
... revelation , and by the guidance of reason , into the nature of the doctrines contained in it , whether they be contrary to it or not : and when we are con- vinced of these two points , all that we insist upon is , that if , upon ...
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Page 150 - Albeit that Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith; insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 295 - Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the wayside are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Page 63 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Page 179 - And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer...
Page 53 - And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord ? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel : their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
Page 150 - And the people gave a shout, saying, "It is the voice of a god and not of a man." And immediately the Angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 315 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 110 - An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas : for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly ; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.