Aids to Faith: A Series of Theological EssaysWilliam Thomson, William Thomson (Abp. of York) D. Appleton, 1862 - 538 pages |
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Page 329 - For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit. To another faith, by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing, by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another divers kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as He will.
Page 224 - I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Page 222 - These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 376 - Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you ; do this in remembrance of me. Likewise after supper he took the cup; and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of this; for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for you and for many, for the remission of sins; do this, as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.
Page 118 - The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand...
Page 315 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 127 - Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel : the land is not able to bear all his words. For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
Page 282 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, ° before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Page 19 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 107 - But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron ? Now therefore thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.