A Treatise on the Evidence of the Scripture MiraclesBaldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1826 - 356 pages |
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... produce those works which we account to be miracles . The argument of my dissertation says nothing of magic : the question considered in it is not what man can achieve by means of any commerce with the occult powers of nature ; but ...
... produce those works which we account to be miracles . The argument of my dissertation says nothing of magic : the question considered in it is not what man can achieve by means of any commerce with the occult powers of nature ; but ...
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... any merely human power or agency . To substitute a definition , therefore , which , in- stead of the effect , shall have for its subject the cause producing it , we may say also that a mi- B racle is an act above human power . These two.
... any merely human power or agency . To substitute a definition , therefore , which , in- stead of the effect , shall have for its subject the cause producing it , we may say also that a mi- B racle is an act above human power . These two.
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... producing it the authority of that being whose power it evidences . Thus if a messenger , claiming to bear a commission from any distant friend or superior , were to pro- duce to us a signet known to be genuine , his possession of that ...
... producing it the authority of that being whose power it evidences . Thus if a messenger , claiming to bear a commission from any distant friend or superior , were to pro- duce to us a signet known to be genuine , his possession of that ...
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... produced or al- leged , the sanction of a clearly divine authority . Nothing can be more infallible than this conclu- sion . It is plain , also , that if we suppose the power of working miracles to be at any time commu- nicated to human ...
... produced or al- leged , the sanction of a clearly divine authority . Nothing can be more infallible than this conclu- sion . It is plain , also , that if we suppose the power of working miracles to be at any time commu- nicated to human ...
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... produced by any less power than the divine omnipotence " . He also proves that “ it is not rightly defined to be that which is against the course of nature , or above the natural powers of created agents " . He admits that beings ...
... produced by any less power than the divine omnipotence " . He also proves that “ it is not rightly defined to be that which is against the course of nature , or above the natural powers of created agents " . He admits that beings ...
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Page 21 - If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods which thou hast not known, and let us serve them...
Page 145 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Page 90 - When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Page 142 - Jews: and Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
Page 81 - Moreover, . brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea ; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea...
Page 46 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 30 - Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name : I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them : they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Page 86 - Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Page 79 - ... and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 92 - And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always : but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.