The new aid to memory. By a Cambridge M.A. By R.R. Knott

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الصفحة 73 - The Holy Scriptures contain all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
الصفحة xiii - Besides this, there is another connexion of ideas wholly owing to chance or custom : ideas that in themselves are not at all of kin, come to be so united in some men's minds that it is very hard to separate them ; they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time comes into the understanding, but its associate appears with it; and if they are more than two which are thus united, the whole gang, always inseparable, show themselves together.
الصفحة 82 - that our Lord came from heaven not so much to make the Gospel revelation, as to be the subject of it, by doing and suffering all that was necessary to procure the salvation of mankind, appointing his Spirit, after his ascension, to be its chief interpreter.
الصفحة 75 - Olympus, erecting his statue on the altar of burnt-offering, and punishing with death all that could be found acting contrary to his decree ; this rousing them to resistance, they were restored to liberty by the piety and bravery of the family of the Maccabees. These princes continued to flourish with diminished splendour, and in subserviency to the Roman power, till the days of Herod, an Idumean by birth, but of the Jewish religion, who conquered and deposed the family of the Maccabees, and was...
الصفحة 74 - New, it seems desirable to give a slight sketch of the history of the Jews during the intermediate period. The Political History of the Jewish Nation in the interval between the close of the Old Testament and the coming of our Blessed Lord. This, as gathered principally from the Books of Maccabees and Josephus, may be thus briefly stated. The inspired history leaves the Jews subject to the Persians. When that power was overthrown by Alexander the Great, B.
الصفحة 64 - Hebrew word, Pharash, which signifies " separated," or " set apart," because they separated themselves from every other sect, as more holy in their religious observances.
الصفحة 67 - The tendency of infidelity to the destruction of social order, is illustrated by a remark of Josephus on this sect ; that the Sadducees, whose tenets were the denial of a moral government and a future state, were distinguished from other sects by their ferocity, and again, for their inhumanity in their judicial capacity.
الصفحة 73 - Stoies professed to believe both the existence of the gods, and their providence in the world ; but they attributed all human actions to fixed and unalterable fate, to which they conceived the gods themselves to be subject, and thus destroyed the foundation of all religion as much as the atheistical Epicureans did.
الصفحة 86 - Caesar, and Seneca, are particularly noticed, yet it is not known that any modern orator has made use of this art ; however, in allusion to it, we still call the parts of a discourse places or topics, and say, in the first place, in the second place, &c. The science appears to have lain dormant in after ages, till Raimond Lulle, about the close of the thirteenth century, brought it once more into notice, and it has ever since been called
الصفحة 82 - See Matt. xvi. 22 ; Mark ix. 32 ; Luke xviii. 84 ; xxiv. 25 ; Mark xvi. 14 ; Acts i. 6. Archbishop Magee remarks, that " until it was clearly established that Jesus was the Messiah, and until by his resurrection, crowning all his miraculous acts, it was made manifest that He who had been crucified by the Jews was He who should save them and all mankind from their sins, it must have been premature to explain how this was to be effected.

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