The Evidence and Authority of the Christian RevelationAnthony Finley, 1817 - 292 pagina's |
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Pagina 46
... narrative , not told over again ; but implied and proceeded upon as true in another ? Do we find the sucession of his- tory , through a series of ages , supported in a way that is natural and consistent ? Do we find these compositions ...
... narrative , not told over again ; but implied and proceeded upon as true in another ? Do we find the sucession of his- tory , through a series of ages , supported in a way that is natural and consistent ? Do we find these compositions ...
Pagina 48
... narrative . There may be a total want of agree- ment on the part of other documents . There may be the silence of every author for ages after the pretended date of the manuscript in question . There may be all these , in sufficient ...
... narrative . There may be a total want of agree- ment on the part of other documents . There may be the silence of every author for ages after the pretended date of the manuscript in question . There may be all these , in sufficient ...
Pagina 64
... narrative , relative to the internal affairs of Judea , to the man- ners of the people , and those particulars which are connected with their religious belief , and ecclesi- astical constitution . With many , it will be sup- posed to ...
... narrative , relative to the internal affairs of Judea , to the man- ners of the people , and those particulars which are connected with their religious belief , and ecclesi- astical constitution . With many , it will be sup- posed to ...
Pagina 67
... narrative , without the possibility of betraying our time by some mistaken allusion , it stands distinguished from ... narratives , it seems difficult to avoid the conclusion , that they were either the eye - wit- nesses of their own ...
... narrative , without the possibility of betraying our time by some mistaken allusion , it stands distinguished from ... narratives , it seems difficult to avoid the conclusion , that they were either the eye - wit- nesses of their own ...
Pagina 68
... narrative , which announces its pretensions . It is not possible that any one event or any series of events , should make such a similar impression upon two witnesses , as to dispose them to relate it in the same language , to describe ...
... narrative , which announces its pretensions . It is not possible that any one event or any series of events , should make such a similar impression upon two witnesses , as to dispose them to relate it in the same language , to describe ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 138 - FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
Pagina v - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Pagina 165 - Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Pagina 144 - I can tell the place in which the blessed Polycarp sat and taught, and his going out and coming in, and the manner of his life, and the form of his person, and the discourses he made to the people ; and how he related his conversation with John, and others who had seen the Lord, and how he related their sayings, and what he had heard...
Pagina 112 - This is the teacher of Asia, the father of the Christians, the destroyer of our Gods, who teaches many neither to offer sacrifice nor to worship.
Pagina 148 - Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
Pagina 174 - Moses; but does Moses ever say, that when God created the heavens and the earth, he did more at the time alluded to than transform, them out of previously existing materials? Or does he ever say, that there was not an interval of many ages betwixt the first act of creation, described in the first verse of the book of Genesis, and said to have been performed at the beginning; and those more detailed operations, the account of which commences at the second verse, and which are described to us as having...
Pagina 195 - It is not for us to bring our minds up to this mysterious agency. But, such is the incomprehensible fact, that the same Being, whose eye is abroad over the whole universe, gives vegetation to every blade of grass, and motion to every particle of blood which circulates through the veins of the minutest animal; that, though his mind takes into its comprehensive grasp immensity and all its wonders, I am as much known to him as...
Pagina 134 - Now to those who regret this circumstance, we beg leave to submit the following observations. Suppose that one other narrative of the life and miracles of our Saviour had been composed, and, to give all the value to this additional testimony of which it is susceptible, let us suppose it to be the work of an apostle. By this last circumstance, we secure...
Pagina 83 - Christians—were provided as a lasting, pure, and authoritative record ; " that they might know the certainty of those things wherein they had been instructed.