Two Essays on Scripture Miracles and on EcclesiasticalB. M. Pickering, 1870 - 393 pages |
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Acts admit agency already Apostles appear argument ascribed attested authority believe Bishop body called cause century character Christ Christian Church circumstances cloth concerning considered continued course Cross cures distinctly specified Divine doctrine edition effect Essay Eusebius evidence existence fact faith Fathers follow gift give given Gospel Gregory hand Holy instance Jerusalem Jews John known laws least less Lord manner matter means mention mind miracles moral nature necessary object observed occurrence once ordinary original particular persons Pickering's prayer present probable professed proof prove Publisher question reason received recorded referred remark reported says Scripture seems sent direct Sepulchre sight speaks Spirit supernatural supposed surely taken Temple testimony things tion tongues true truth vision wall whole witnesses writers wrought
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Page 366 - When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
Page 195 - Solomon's porch ; and of the rest durst no man join himself to them. But the people magnified them ; and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women ; insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
Page 217 - And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Page 222 - For there is no man that doeth any 'thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
Page 197 - And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear, him, and to be healed of their diseases ; 18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits : and they were healed.
Page 195 - For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them : and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city.
Page 358 - IF there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams...
Page 113 - If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Page 374 - Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Body...
Page 168 - And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men ; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha. he revived, and stood up on his feet.