The Fitness of Holy Scripture for Unfolding the Spiritual Life of Men. II. Christ the Desire of All Nations, Or, The Unconscious Prophecies of Heathendom: Being the Hulsean Lectures for MDCCCXLV. and MDCCCXLVI. ... |
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Antichrist aught blessing brethren bring brought children of men Christ Christian Church Cicero confession contemplated death declare deep deeper deliver deliverance desire divine doctrine earnest earth evermore evidently evil fact faith Father feel fellowship felt fulness give glorious glory God's Gospel hand healing heart heathen heaven Herakles higher highest Holy Scripture honour hope human idea Incarnation inner Judaism king kingdom Lactantius language LECTURE lepus light living Lord Lucretius man's Manichæan manner men's merely mighty mind moral mystery nations nature needs never Nicene Creed offering oftentimes onager once ourselves perfect Plato Plutarch present prophecy prophetic quæ quod race 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 UNCON unfold unity unto utter weak wisdom witness words καὶ
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Page 8 - 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 164 - 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 5 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him...
Page 177 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God ? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 217 - 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 6 - These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
Page 237 - 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 101 - Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard ; How that the blind see, the...
Page 43 - Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers...
Page 21 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.