Book/Printed Material The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of lectures, delivered in Clinton hall, in the winter of 1831-2, under the appointment of the University of the city of New York
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Image 361 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 355 with such deadly offence agamst the disciples of Christ. JTee/j yourselves from idols was a pre- cept that met the pagan Greek and Roman when- ever he beheld a…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 362 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 356 LECTURE IX. Filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wick- edness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boast- ers, inventors of evil things,…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 363 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 357 with excellency of speech, or the enticing words of man s wisdom, doting (as they did) about questions and strifes of words but knowing no- thing among men save…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 364 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 358 LECTURE IX. It was distinguished as one of profound 2)^(^ce among the nations, when the minds of men were peculiarly capable of deliberately investigating the claims of the gospel it was…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 365 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 359 liberality of the rich and the protection of the powerful.* From this prevalence of philosophy falsely so called, the age was distinguished for curious and bold inquiry the learned…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 366 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 360 LECTURE IX. cially its two cardinal points, humble repentance and submissive faith. 8th. Consider, next, to ichom the iwopagation of the gosjoel loas committed. Who were they that received the commission,…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 367 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 361 humble faith of the crucified Nazarene and bap- tize them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. 9th. Consider the circumstances of depression…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 368 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 362 LECTURE IX. wealth, or human learning, as to poverty and meanness. They spake as men having authority as ambassadors, commissioned from a throne, and sustained by a power before which, they…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 369 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 363 depart from iniquity, crucify the flesh, with its affections and lusts, and be willing to be esteemed a fool and persecuted to death for Christ s sake. Such was…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 370 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 364 LECTURE IX. sition to crush the cause. All the devices that Roman governors, seconded by the superstitions and passions of the several nations of heathenism, could employ, w^ere united in the…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 371 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 365 Rome.* What persecution was in the heart of the empire, it was also in Africa, Persia, Arabia, Cap- padocia, Mesopotamia, Nicomedia, Phrygia, and in almost every place where the…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 372 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 366 LECTURE IX, for the purpose of instigating the rage of the po- pulace. The evidence of abject slaves or of per- sons forced by torture to testify as an incensed community…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 373 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 367 it must be of God, protected and advanced by His power. Before proceeding to speak of the success of the apostles, we may deduce, from the premises we have…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 374 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 368 LECTURE IX. in divers manners after his burial; whether he had eaten with them, conversed with them, jour- neyed with them, during the space of forty days subsequent to his death…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 375 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 369 assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. One would have supposed that the same hands that had rioted in the…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 376 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 370 LECTURE IX. spectively, is described by the expressions, a great number great multitudes much ^jeopley What an extensive impression had been made, is obvious from the outcry of the opposers at…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 377 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 371 lians. What he calls the contagion of this super- stition (thus forcibly describing the irresistible and rapid spread of Christianity), had seized not cities only, but the less towns…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 378 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 372 LECTURE IX. and with the populace on their side, have endea- voured, with their whole might, to exterminate it, yet doth it flourish more and more. There is no reason for…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 379 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX, 373 Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. The doc- trine of Christ/ says a writer of those times, did convert the most wicked persons who embraced it from…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 380 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 374 LECTURE IX. rapidity, but of great power in transforming the hearts and lives of the multitudes who embraced it. In connection with the moral power and vast extent of this work…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 381 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 375 It may help to convey some notion of the character and quality of many early Christians; of their learning and their labours to notice the christian icriters who flourished…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 382 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 376 LECTURE IX. We have now prepared the several facts that constitute the materials of our argument. Here is an unquestionable historical event. The rapid and extensive spread of Christianity over the…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 383 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX, 377 give it the appearance of profound wisdom, they called to their aid the general principle that it is imprudent and injurious to let people see the whole truth at…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 384 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 378 LECTURE IX. cles, and therefore had no detection to fear. The gospel rested all upon its repeated miracles, and, consequently, unless it had been true, would have been certain of detection.…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 385 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 379 Christ began their work was eminently unpropi- tioiis to any cause but that of God, It was the Augustaii age. Mohammedanism took its rise in an interior town of…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 386 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 380 LECTURE IX. vailing religion of the empire, by preaching to the ignorant generation of Christians that his religion was no other than what had been originally their own. The unity of…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 387 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 381 his enterprise, had not extended his cause beyond the walls of Mecca, and had gained but few dis- ciples within them, because his efforts had been confined to ijersuasion.…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 388 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 382 LECTURE IXc But I may not leave this subject, without turn- ing what to some may have seemed ahmost pa- rallel to the success of the gospel, into an aux- iliary…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 389 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 383 trtited by the learning of her disciples, professed by all civilized nations. It cannot be said that less hu- man ellbrt, in the aggregate, has been employed for the…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 390 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 384 LECTURE IX. were entirely destitute. The scriptures are now circulated in full while in the days of St. Paul, the canon being incomplete, they were circu- lated only in parts. In…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 391 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 385 ties. This is the miracle. It is as directly con- trary to the laws of nature and to universal expe- rience, as if, at the word of man, the…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 392 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 386 LECTURE IX. also, what is still more singular, that when they plunged, immediately at the outset of their minis- try, into an immense multitude of those who, hav- ing lately crucified…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 393 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX, 387 though the mode they adopted was of all others most calculated to expose their own weakness and dishonesty, and to embitter the enmity and in- crease the contempt of…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 394 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 388 LECTURE IX, empire co-extensive with the known world, and continues still the religion of all civilized nations. This, says the unbeliever, they did simply by their own wit and industry and…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 395 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE IX. 389 rose. Every nation and kindred shall be brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, for the word hath gone forth out of the mouth of the Lord I…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 396 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of …- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 397 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. LECTURE X. THE FRUITS OP CHRISTIANITY. In our preceding lectures, we have followed the currents of three independent arguments, each of which was found suflGicient to conduct us to…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 398 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 392 LECTURE X. figs of thistles 7 Even so every good tree hringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt tree hringeth forth evil fruit. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.^^…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 399 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … LECTURE X. 393 is one of bitterness, and the tree fit only to be cut down as a cumberer of the ground. If men would judge Christianity also, by the fair application…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Image 400 of The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of … 394 LECTURE X. the ancient world in the age when the preaching of the cross effected its wonderful revolution in the whole fabric of society. And that w^e may not be accused…- Contributor: McIlvaine, Charles Pettit
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Title
- The evidences of Christianity: in their external division, exhibited in a course of lectures, delivered in Clinton hall, in the winter of 1831-2, under the appointment of the University of the city of New York
Names
- McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, 1799-1873
Created / Published
- New York, G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1832.
Headings
- - Apologetics
- - Bible--Evidences, authority, etc
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- xvi, [17]-565 p., 1 l. 24 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- BT1101 .M3 1832
Library of Congress Control Number
- 08022421
OCLC Number
- 6647421
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