Lectures in Defence of Divine Revelation: Delivered at the Universalist Chapel, in Providence, R. I.S. W. Wheeler, 1831 - 240 páginas |
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... believe that the author has not labored in vain to promote the interests of revealed religion . To excite inquiry , to elicit truth , to promote the knowledge and love of God , to spread the name and religion of Jesus Christ , and by ...
... believe that the author has not labored in vain to promote the interests of revealed religion . To excite inquiry , to elicit truth , to promote the knowledge and love of God , to spread the name and religion of Jesus Christ , and by ...
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... and love , reason would inevitably lead us to expect from him a revelation of his will and his truth . Having , as we believe , adduced sufficient evidence to establish in the rational and reflecting mind the belief 3 * LECTURE I. 21.
... and love , reason would inevitably lead us to expect from him a revelation of his will and his truth . Having , as we believe , adduced sufficient evidence to establish in the rational and reflecting mind the belief 3 * LECTURE I. 21.
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... believe that this pil- lar remained for ages ; and that it was seen and ac- knowledged by multitudes . While we are upon the story of Lot's wife , it may not be improper to mention an heathen form of ex- orcism , preserved by Alexander ...
... believe that this pil- lar remained for ages ; and that it was seen and ac- knowledged by multitudes . While we are upon the story of Lot's wife , it may not be improper to mention an heathen form of ex- orcism , preserved by Alexander ...
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... believe the whole his- tory false , without a particle of testimony to sup- port your reason in so doing ; and what is still more absurd , to believe against all the evidence which has ever been adduced in support of the fact . If I ...
... believe the whole his- tory false , without a particle of testimony to sup- port your reason in so doing ; and what is still more absurd , to believe against all the evidence which has ever been adduced in support of the fact . If I ...
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... believe that God would sanction a palpable untruth , by the inspiration of his wisdom ? It cannot be ; and yet this glaring absurdity is involved in the impious conclusion , that the cities of which we have been treating , were not ...
... believe that God would sanction a palpable untruth , by the inspiration of his wisdom ? It cannot be ; and yet this glaring absurdity is involved in the impious conclusion , that the cities of which we have been treating , were not ...
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Página 97 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands...
Página 45 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Página 109 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them : for I am the LORD their God.
Página 152 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Página 121 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest...
Página 156 - Now there was about this time, Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man : for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.
Página 19 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Página 152 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Página 179 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word...
Página 230 - What prepossession, what blindness must it be to compare the son of Sophronicus to the son of Mary! What an infinite disproportion there is between them! Socrates dying without pain or ignominy, easily supported his character to the last; and if his death, however easy, had not crowned his life, it might have been doubted whether Socrates, with all his wisdom, was anything more than a vain sophist.