Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 1S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 184
... true prophets , and their universe , or schemes of divine reve- writings of divine inspiration . lation , have any tolerable pretences 8. The ancient and present state to be true , but those of the Jews and of the Jewish nation , are ...
... true prophets , and their universe , or schemes of divine reve- writings of divine inspiration . lation , have any tolerable pretences 8. The ancient and present state to be true , but those of the Jews and of the Jewish nation , are ...
Page 194
... true God and of the true religion ; and flesh had corrupted its way , and all through the corruption of idolatrous the nations of the earth were run- doctrines and practices , it is added ; ning eagerly into it . Even the Egyp- " defile ...
... true God and of the true religion ; and flesh had corrupted its way , and all through the corruption of idolatrous the nations of the earth were run- doctrines and practices , it is added ; ning eagerly into it . Even the Egyp- " defile ...
Page 196
... true God , and the proper habits of idolatrous priests ; to preserve it from the spreading evils and which , according to the profess- of idolatry , by separating it from the ed doctrines of their idolatrous wor- society of idolaters ...
... true God , and the proper habits of idolatrous priests ; to preserve it from the spreading evils and which , according to the profess- of idolatry , by separating it from the ed doctrines of their idolatrous wor- society of idolaters ...
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