The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated: In Nine Books, Volume 3A. Millar, and J. and R. Tonson, 1765 - Bible |
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Page xlvii
... suppose , fignifies , true in the EX- ACTEST SENSE , for his argument requires fome fuch meaning . Now in common English - true in the utmost latitude , fignifies true , in the LOWEST SENSE ; for the greater latitude you give to any ...
... suppose , fignifies , true in the EX- ACTEST SENSE , for his argument requires fome fuch meaning . Now in common English - true in the utmost latitude , fignifies true , in the LOWEST SENSE ; for the greater latitude you give to any ...
Page liii
... suppose . But it will be said , “ Were clandestine meetings never objected to the primitive Christians ? ” Yes , Celsus objected such meetings to them , as things contrary to law " . But Origen's reply will set matters right . He says ...
... suppose . But it will be said , “ Were clandestine meetings never objected to the primitive Christians ? ” Yes , Celsus objected such meetings to them , as things contrary to law " . But Origen's reply will set matters right . He says ...
Page lxxii
... suppose him to be in the right ; and then confider the con- fequences which will arise from it . When we have done this , we fhall have done his System full juf- tice ; and the reader , with fufficient knowledge of the cafe , may take ...
... suppose him to be in the right ; and then confider the con- fequences which will arise from it . When we have done this , we fhall have done his System full juf- tice ; and the reader , with fufficient knowledge of the cafe , may take ...
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... suppose , that the fame Scripture which tells us , that the Lawgiver and his people brought their wisdom and fuperftitions from Egypt , would tell us alfo what that wisdom and what thofe fuperftitions were . And fo indeed it does ; as ...
... suppose , that the fame Scripture which tells us , that the Lawgiver and his people brought their wisdom and fuperftitions from Egypt , would tell us alfo what that wisdom and what thofe fuperftitions were . And fo indeed it does ; as ...
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... 27. and from hence is inferred the low eftate of medicine in thefe early times . One would reasonably suppose the authority here quoted , quoted , to fupport this obfervation , had informed us 46 The Divine Legation Book BOOK IV .
... 27. and from hence is inferred the low eftate of medicine in thefe early times . One would reasonably suppose the authority here quoted , quoted , to fupport this obfervation , had informed us 46 The Divine Legation Book BOOK IV .
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againſt alphabet amongſt ancient antiquity Apuleius becauſe cafe caufe cauſe characters Chineſe Chriftians circumftance confequently Diodorus Diodorus Siculus divine Egyp Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphics Egyptians eſtabliſhed exprefs facred faid fame fays fecond feems fenfe fhall fhew fhewn fhould fignify figns figures fimple firft firſt fome fometimes fpeaking ftand ftill fubject fuch fuperftition fuppofe fupport fymbolic glyphics Gods Greece Greeks hath Herodotus hiero hiftory himſelf Hippocrates invention learned letters likewife marks miſtake Mofes moft moſt muſt myſterious nature obferved occafion Ofiris perfecution perfons Pharaoh phyficians Plutarch Porphyry prefent prieſts prophet purpoſe queſtion Quintilian racters reaſon Religion reprefented ſays ſee ſeems Sefoftris ſeveral ſhall ſpeaking ſtanding ſtate Strabo ſuch ſuppoſe Tacitus tells thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion Typhon underſtand underſtood uſe whofe words worship γὰρ δὲ ἐκ ἐν καὶ μὲν οἱ τὰ τὰς τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τῶν
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Page 310 - Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full ; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Page iii - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Page vi - And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Page 299 - Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us...
Page 107 - Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page xxxvi - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 310 - And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's. And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
Page 111 - And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all 34 the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Page 240 - The -whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make, an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Page 107 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.