Christianity Vindicated, in Seven Discourses on the External Evidences of the New Testament, with a Concluding DissertationE. Smith, 1833 - 174 pagine |
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Pagina 16
... cavil , and dispute , upon the very existence of our revelation . They deny the truth of the sacred history . They assert that the Bible is not what it purports to be ; but that it is a fabrication , imposed upon mankind by the ...
... cavil , and dispute , upon the very existence of our revelation . They deny the truth of the sacred history . They assert that the Bible is not what it purports to be ; but that it is a fabrication , imposed upon mankind by the ...
Pagina 19
... cavil ? And to this enquiry it must be answered , -Yes , several , the poems of Homer , the histories of Herod- tus and Thucydides , the works of Xenophon , Lucian , Plutarch , Epictetus , and others of the Greeks , Cicero and Cæsar ...
... cavil ? And to this enquiry it must be answered , -Yes , several , the poems of Homer , the histories of Herod- tus and Thucydides , the works of Xenophon , Lucian , Plutarch , Epictetus , and others of the Greeks , Cicero and Cæsar ...
Pagina 28
... cavil , though in the face of a stronger body of testimony , than any book on the face of the earth , besides the Scriptures , can claim . Let him , if he will , - continue to cry out , ' Fraud and imposition , ' without a shadow of ...
... cavil , though in the face of a stronger body of testimony , than any book on the face of the earth , besides the Scriptures , can claim . Let him , if he will , - continue to cry out , ' Fraud and imposition , ' without a shadow of ...
Pagina 113
... cavil , hardly deserves a reply . Modesty , in the sense used by the objector , has no connexion with the task of the law- maker or the judge on earth . Crimes must be de- scribed or they cannot be punished . Testimony of their ...
... cavil , hardly deserves a reply . Modesty , in the sense used by the objector , has no connexion with the task of the law- maker or the judge on earth . Crimes must be de- scribed or they cannot be punished . Testimony of their ...
Pagina 114
... cavil which meets us , is the allegation , that the command given to exterminate the Canaanites , is totally at war with the justice and mercy of the Almighty , -women and children being sacrificed by the Israelites , and they being ...
... cavil which meets us , is the allegation , that the command given to exterminate the Canaanites , is totally at war with the justice and mercy of the Almighty , -women and children being sacrificed by the Israelites , and they being ...
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Pagina 40 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Pagina 39 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Pagina 149 - Sun-day" all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits ; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.
Pagina 79 - 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.
Pagina 98 - When the promise of eternal happiness was proposed to mankind on condition of adopting the faith, and of observing the precepts, of the gospel, it is no wonder that so advantageous an offer should have been accepted by great numbers of every religion, of every rank, and of every province in the Roman empire.
Pagina 36 - Christ immediately puts his friendship to the proof, by telling him, that the foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had nests, but the Son of Man had not where to lay his head.
Pagina 98 - At the bar and in the senate of Rome the ablest orators were not apprehensive of giving offence to their hearers by exposing that doctrine as an idle and extravagant opinion, which was rejected with contempt by every man of a liberal education and understanding.
Pagina 170 - ... theft or robbery, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor to deny a pledge committed to them when called upon to return it.
Pagina 77 - It shall be the basest of kingdoms. Neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, *that they shall no more rule over the nations.™ The pride of her power shall come down.
Pagina 134 - The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspense of judgment, appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld ; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them...