An Analysis of Paley's Evidences of Christianity: In the Way of Question and Answer, with a Selection of Questions for Self-examination, Designed for the Use of Students in Divinity, as Well as for Counteracting the Progress of Infidelity Amongst the Middle Classes of SocietyR. Newby, 1826 - 260 Seiten |
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... success without any act of power or authority , to what conclusion are we led by the very nature and exigency of the case ? A. That the Author of the religion during his life , and his disciples after his death , exerted themselves in ...
... success without any act of power or authority , to what conclusion are we led by the very nature and exigency of the case ? A. That the Author of the religion during his life , and his disciples after his death , exerted themselves in ...
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... success to the Apostles and Elders at Jerusalem , by whom they were highly commended . Q. Did the treatment which they experienced in the first progress hinder them from attempting a second ? A. No ; but a dispute arising between them ...
... success to the Apostles and Elders at Jerusalem , by whom they were highly commended . Q. Did the treatment which they experienced in the first progress hinder them from attempting a second ? A. No ; but a dispute arising between them ...
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... success at length excited the apprehen- sions of those who were interested in the national worship , whose clamour produced a tumult , in which he had nearly lost his life . Q. When driven from Ephesus , where did the undismayed apostle ...
... success at length excited the apprehen- sions of those who were interested in the national worship , whose clamour produced a tumult , in which he had nearly lost his life . Q. When driven from Ephesus , where did the undismayed apostle ...
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... success of his imposture in his cruci- fixion , yet persist in carrying it on ; and so persist , as to bring upon themselves , for nothing , and with a full knowledge of the consequence , enmity , dan- ger and death ? CHAP . I ...
... success of his imposture in his cruci- fixion , yet persist in carrying it on ; and so persist , as to bring upon themselves , for nothing , and with a full knowledge of the consequence , enmity , dan- ger and death ? CHAP . I ...
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... success ? are questions which apply , with great force , to the setting out of the institution - with less , to every future stage of it . Q. In APPRECIATING the credit of any mira- culous story , these are distinctions which relate to ...
... success ? are questions which apply , with great force , to the setting out of the institution - with less , to every future stage of it . Q. In APPRECIATING the credit of any mira- culous story , these are distinctions which relate to ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acts adversaries amongst ancient answer apostles appear argument Arnobius ascribed assert attestation authority believe bishop Bithynia called Celsus CHAP character Chris Christ Christian history Christian writers Christianity church circumstances Clement Clement of Alexandria concerning conduct contemporary converts Corinth death delivered disciples divine doctrine epistle Eusebius evangelists evidence extant facts Founder four Gospels genuineness hath heathen human improbable institution Irenæus Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews John Josephus Judea judgment Justin Martyr labours Lactantius Luke Mahomet Matt Matthew miracles morality narrative nature notice objection observations opinions Origen original Paley passage Paul Paul of Samosata persecution persons Polycarp preaching principles probable produce proof propagation of Christianity prophecy proposition prove question quoted racter received religion resurrection revelation Roman Rome Saint Saviour Scriptures shew story sufferings Syria Tacitus Tatian teachers Tertullian testimony things tians tion truth Vespasian words written wrought
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 31 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house ; and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Seite 165 - And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people ; and...
Seite 193 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Seite 23 - For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows, then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you. And ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Seite 143 - And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging : to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. 24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
Seite 19 - The founder of that name was Christ, who suffered death in. the reign of Tiberius, under his procurator Pontius Pilate. This pernicious superstition, thus checked for a while, broke out again, and spread not only over Judea, where the evil originated, but through Rome also, whither every thing bad upon the earth finds its way, and is practised.
Seite 160 - ... circumstances in which they consist, to the places in which those circumstances occur, and the circuitous references by which they are traced out) demonstrates that they have not been produced by meditation, or by any fraudulent contrivance. But coincidences, from which these causes are excluded, and which are too close and numerous to be accounted for by accidental concurrences of fiction, must necessarily have truth for their foundation.
Seite 195 - And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
Seite 7 - I remark a want of argumentative justice, that, in describing the improbability of miracles, he suppresses all those circumstances of extenuation, which result from our knowledge of the existence, power, and disposition of the Deity, his concern in the creation, the end answered by the miracle, the importance of that end, and its subserviency to the plan pursued in the work of nature.
Seite 111 - I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.