Tracts in Controversy with Dr. Priestley: Upon the Historical Question, of the Belief of the First Ages, in Our Lord's Divinity. Originally Published in the Years 1783, 1784, & 1786, Afterwards Revised and Augmented, with a Large Addition of Notes and Supplemental Disquisitions

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A. Smith & Company, 1812 - 613 pagina's

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Pagina 366 - 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 ; it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
Pagina 233 - And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God and saying ; Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice ; Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Pagina 355 - And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders, which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, and in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
Pagina 600 - And for this cause the Lord was content to suffer for our souls, although he be the Lord of the whole earth; to whom God said before the beginning of the world, Let us make man after our own image and likeness.
Pagina 426 - The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the good man of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household ? Therefore fear them not.
Pagina 50 - God by the weak pinions of our reason, but he has been pleased to descend to us , and what Socrates said of him, what Plato writ, and the rest of the Heathen philosophers of several nations, is all no more than the twilight of revelation, after the sun of it was set in the race of Noah.
Pagina 354 - They tell us, that the same God who " spake in times past to the fathers by the prophets hath in these latter days spoken unto us by his Son...
Pagina 123 - Testament is, for the most part, what may be called a standing sense ; that which will be the first to occur to common people of every country, and in every age ; and I am apt to think that the difference between this standing sense and the Jewish sense will, in all cases, be far less than is imagined, or none at all ; because, though different languages differ widely in their refined and elevated idioms, common speech is in all languages pretty much the same.
Pagina 345 - Provided always, that no congregation, or assembly for religious worship, shall be permitted or allowed by this act, until the place of such meeting shall be certified to the bishop of the diocese, or to the archdeacon of that archdeaconry, or to the justices of the peace, at the general or quarter sessions...
Pagina 346 - I AB do solemnly declare, in the presence of Almighty God, that I am a Christian and a Protestant, and as such, that I believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, as commonly received among Protestant churches, do contain the revealed will of God ; and that I do receive the same as the rule of my doctrine and practice.

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