Some Thoughts Concerning Religion, Natural and Revealed: With Reflexions on the Sources of Incredulity with Regard to Religion. By the Right Honourable Duncan Forbes ...G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1750 - 306 Seiten |
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Seite 170 - As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
Seite 59 - ... be called * Wonderful, Counfellor, the Mighty God, ." the Everlafting Father, the Prince of Peace : of the increafe of " his government and peace there fhall be no end, upon the throne
Seite 111 - In that strange book, which he has written in this delirium against Tindal, and which I have quoted somewhere, he says very rationally, " that we ought to be amazed at the impudence of those who pretend to decide what God is or is not, and what he can or can not do, from the notions they have framed to themselves of his attributes, his nature and perfection.
Seite 59 - I will declare the decree : the Lord hath faid unto me, thou art my Son ; this day have I begotten thee. Afk of me, and I fhall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermoft parts of the earth for thy pofleffion.
Seite 48 - Could this have been done by human forefight or force ? Has any thing like to it ever been in the world befides? What could tend more to perpetuate the memory of any event, than to deliver a whole People, by...
Seite 46 - God's house, and some cities with suburbs, dispersed amongst other tribes. 2. Not only were the descendants of each tribe to enjoy, in exclusion of other tribes, their own lot, but the particular fields and parcels, within each tribe, were to remain for ever with the respective families that first possessed them, and on failure of the...
Seite 64 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come ; and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be."* When the blossom drops we know the fruit is coming.
Seite 51 - Levitts by Mofes ? If no book at all ever was delivered by him to them, what authority could be pretended for fuch a book ? Had a book been to be forged, in order to be received by the People...
Seite 51 - ... observed : and yet the time between the entry of Israel into the land, and the reign of David, being but about four hundred years, is too short a space for forgetting the real manner of the entry, and forging another, to be received by a people, whose genealogy was...
Seite 46 - ... moment. As God was the head of this state, and as the people held immediately their land of him ; so he made several regulations for holding that property, that are very remarkable.