Lectures in Defence of Divine Revelation: Delivered at the Universalist Chapel, in Providence, R. I.S. W. Wheeler, 1830 - 216 páginas |
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... mentioned , " and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encourage- ment of learning by securing the copies of maps , charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time ...
... mentioned , " and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encourage- ment of learning by securing the copies of maps , charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time ...
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... mentioned in scripture , signi fies the same as Baal , a king , or ruler , and is therefore supposed to be the sun . Diana ( or the moon ) the god- dess of hunting and the goddess of months , was called in scripture , as we have before ...
... mentioned in scripture , signi fies the same as Baal , a king , or ruler , and is therefore supposed to be the sun . Diana ( or the moon ) the god- dess of hunting and the goddess of months , was called in scripture , as we have before ...
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... mentioned as a specimen of the horrid barbarity and cruelty , which almost every where prevailed in heathen countries , and which formed one of the most prominent features in the character of their worship I have forborne to mention the ...
... mentioned as a specimen of the horrid barbarity and cruelty , which almost every where prevailed in heathen countries , and which formed one of the most prominent features in the character of their worship I have forborne to mention the ...
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... mention the human sacrifices which were formerly offered by the aborigines of America , as I have forborne to notice the gross idolatry of other barbarous nations ; and briefly consider the char- acter of modern heathenism , under the ...
... mention the human sacrifices which were formerly offered by the aborigines of America , as I have forborne to notice the gross idolatry of other barbarous nations ; and briefly consider the char- acter of modern heathenism , under the ...
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... mentioned by certain Greek historians who had gone before them : But the same is true with regard to the Romans : For notwithstanding they had long exist- ed as a war - like and powerful people , yet they are never mentioned by ...
... mentioned by certain Greek historians who had gone before them : But the same is true with regard to the Romans : For notwithstanding they had long exist- ed as a war - like and powerful people , yet they are never mentioned by ...
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Página 89 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands...
Página 122 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it...
Página 41 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Página 99 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
Página 18 - Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Página 136 - For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
Página 140 - Now there was about this time, Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man ; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure.
Página 205 - Is it possible that a book, at once so simple and sublime, should be merely the work of man ? Is it possible that the sacred personage, whose history it contains, should be himself a mere man...
Página 206 - Socrates peaceably philosophizing with his friends, appears the most agreeable that could be wished for ; that of Jesus, expiring in the midst of agonizing pains, abused, insulted and accused by a whole nation, is the most horrible that could be feared. Socrates in receiving the cup of poison, blessed...
Página 159 - 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...