The Evidences of Christianity; in Their External, Or Historical, Division: Exhibited in a Course of Lectures,

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Smith, English & Company, 1861 - 416 sider

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Side 246 - The strong language in the Epistle to the Hebrews is eminently applicable. Some " were tortured, not accepting deliverance; others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment : they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins ; being
Side 207 - the abomination of desolation stand in the holy place? " then know that the desolation thereof is nigh." " Then let them which be in Judea flee to the mountains : let him that is on the house-top not come down to take any thing out of his house : neither let him which is in the
Side 240 - of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful : Who, knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."* This
Side 102 - Jerusalem, a deep impression of astonishment was produced on the public mind by a rumour of certain miraculous events in the company of the apostles, so that " the multitude came together and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language." Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and
Side 182 - The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other ; and among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest ; and thou shalt become an
Side 38 - Still earlier, we find Justin Martyr giving the emperor an account of the Christian worship, in which it is written : " The memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, according as the time allows ; and when the reader has ended, the president makes a discourse, exhorting to the imitation of so excellent
Side 218 - A ploughshare," says Gibbon, "was drawn over the consecrated ground, as a sign of perpetual interdiction." Thus literally fulfilling that prophecy of Micah : " Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes, be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the
Side 195 - Behold (saith He) I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book." " He that confesseth me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven." But
Side 387 - if thou criest after knowledge, and Liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Side 214 - coming, in the which they will say, Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, fall on us,

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