Evidences of the Christian Religion Briefly and Plainly Stated

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A. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1786
 

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Página 81 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Página 153 - Gospel as are level to human capacity, appear to be agreeable to the purest truth, and the soundest morality. All the genius and learning of the heathen world ; all the penetration of Pythagoras, Socrates, and Aristotle, had never been able to produce such a system of moral duty, and so rational an account of Providence' and of man, as are to be found in. the New Testament. Compared, indeed, with this, all other moral and theological wisdom Loses, Uiscountenanc'd, and like folly shows.
Página 93 - ... as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are his ways higher than our ways, and his thoughts than our thoughts.
Página 6 - For, from feveral converfations which it has been my chance to have with unbelievers, I have learned, that ignorance of the nature of our religion, and a difinclination to ftudy both it and its evidence, are to be reckoned among the chief caufes of infidelity.
Página 35 - unto them ; go your way, and tell John, what " things ye have feen and heard : how that the " blind fee, the lame walk, the lepers are cleanfed, " the deaf hear, the dead are raifed, to the poor
Página 89 - No remarks," as Dr. Beattie hath properly said, " are thrown in, to anticipate objections ; nothing of that caution, which never fails to distinguish the testimony of those who are conscious of imposture ; no endeavour to reconcile the reader's mind to what may be extraordinary in the narrative.
Página 154 - ... soundest morality. All the genius and learning of the heathen world; all the penetration of Pythagoras, Socrates, and Aristotle, had never been able to produce such a system of moral duty, and so rational an account of Providence and of man, as is to be found in the New Testament. Compared, indeed, to this, all other moral and theological wisdom " Loses discountenanced, and like folly .shows.
Página 58 - ... the universe as Almighty power ? • . .. To raise a dead man to life ; to cure blindness with a touch ; to remove lameness, or any other bodily imperfection, by speaking a word, are all miracles ; but must all be as easy to the Author of nature, or to any person commissioned by him for that purpose, as to give life to an embryo, make the eye an organ of sight, or cause vegetables to revive in the spring.
Página 52 - If we have no reafon to diftruft his integrity ; if we think him a competent judge of that which he affirms ; if we know of no motive of vanity or...
Página 155 - ... of them too, thought it their interest to bear down and destroy, not with argument, in which it would appear they had no confidence, but with fire and sword ? Were those weak men, who, in defiance of persecution, and in opposition to all the power, policy, and learning, of the Roman empire, brought in, though unarmed and defenceless, a new religion which continues to this day ; is gradually extending itself over the earth more and more ; and by the still small voice of...

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