Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion ...

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W.H. Colyer, 1846 - English language - 351 pages

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Page 323 - And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Page 47 - Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
Page 90 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 342 - God ; yet ought we most chiefly so to do, when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy word, and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul.
Page 340 - DEARLY beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness; and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy.
Page 100 - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Page 131 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn : and if (instead Of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got, into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves, but the...
Page 342 - And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God ; yet ought we most chiefly so to do, when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands...
Page 161 - was " to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness.
Page 228 - We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather.

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