The Divine Origin of Christianity Indicated by Its Historical EffectsPilgrim Press, 1884 - 674 strani |
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... tion , who died before his middle manhood by a painful and shameful anticipated death , but who called himself " the Light of the World , " who claimed a preeminent relationship with God , and to whom his followers rendered an homage.
... tion , who died before his middle manhood by a painful and shameful anticipated death , but who called himself " the Light of the World , " who claimed a preeminent relationship with God , and to whom his followers rendered an homage.
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... tion , this Son of God ; and that beyond our present palpable sphere of being are realms of recompense , for evil and for good , into which each shall pass at death , and in which character , with the destiny involved , remains ...
... tion , this Son of God ; and that beyond our present palpable sphere of being are realms of recompense , for evil and for good , into which each shall pass at death , and in which character , with the destiny involved , remains ...
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... tion which waits for our answer is this : Is there , or is there not , such a fair , obvious , antecedent probability that Christianity is from God , that each conscientious and intelligent man should study it for himself , should ...
... tion which waits for our answer is this : Is there , or is there not , such a fair , obvious , antecedent probability that Christianity is from God , that each conscientious and intelligent man should study it for himself , should ...
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... tion . They seem to furnish the only explanation , through their effect on the minds of the disciples , of the early triumphs of the despised Gospel on the very spot where its Lord had been cru- cified , and of the victorious energy of ...
... tion . They seem to furnish the only explanation , through their effect on the minds of the disciples , of the early triumphs of the despised Gospel on the very spot where its Lord had been cru- cified , and of the victorious energy of ...
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... tion to the rareness and difficulty of these special effects , will rise the probability that that which has produced them has proceeded from God : as we undoubtingly ascribe to Him the sunshine which blesses the earth with its beauty ...
... tion to the rareness and difficulty of these special effects , will rise the probability that that which has produced them has proceeded from God : as we undoubtingly ascribe to Him the sunshine which blesses the earth with its beauty ...
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Stran 493 - Fondly do we hope— fervently do we pray— that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.
Stran 493 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Stran 342 - I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins : for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Stran 639 - Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people...
Stran 435 - And on the day called Sunday, 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.
Stran 421 - I and my sons will have received justice at your hands. The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
Stran 414 - For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.
Stran 363 - I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge ; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
Stran 375 - It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world an ideal character, which through all the changes of eighteen centuries, has inspired the hearts of men with an impassioned love, has shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and conditions, has not only been the highest pattern of virtue but the strongest incentive to its practice...
Stran 436 - Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world ; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead.