The Fitness of Holy Scripture for Unfolding the Spiritual Life of Men: II. Christ the Desire of All Nations; Or, The Unconscious Prophcies of Heathendom; Being the Hulsean Lectures for MDCCCXLV and MDCCCXLVI |
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Antichrist aught blessed brethren bring brought children of Israel Christ Christian Church Cicero confession contemplate death deep deeper deliver deliverance desire divine doctrine earnest earth evermore evidently evil fact faith feel fellowship felt flesh fulness gathered give glory God's Gospel hand healing heart heathen heaven higher highest Holy Scripture honour hope HULSEAN LECTURES human idea Incarnation inner Judaism king kingdom Lactantius language LECTURE lepus light living Lord Lucretius man's manner men's merely mighty mind moral nature needs ness never Nicene Creed offered oftentimes onager once ourselves perfect Plato Plutarch present prophecy prophetic quæ quod race recognise redeemed relations religion revealed righteousness sacrifice Scrip seek sense Son of God souls speak Spirit stand sunt surely Tertullian things thought tion trace true truly truth ture uncon unfold unity unto utter weak wisdom witness words καὶ
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Page 294 - And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Page 256 - I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man. But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 294 - They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
Page 76 - For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Page 271 - What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation ? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
Page 203 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men.
Page 246 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Page 273 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 296 - Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear : For our God is a consuming fire.
Page 278 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.