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  • It was a beauty, a prize for a retired sea-captain's home in backwater Boston: scrimshaw and cowrie shells, Old Testament samplers cross-stitched by unmarried sisters, the smell of whale oil burning in the evenings, the stillness of growing old.†   (source)
  • So I went back to their Old Testament, back to when their lives and ours were intertwined.†   (source)
  • The Old Testament My father was a traveling preacher.†   (source)
  • They claim those books to be the work of fearmongers who tagged them on to the Old Testament just to scare people.†   (source)
  • Instead, with a single course correction which was not detected until the swarm was within the O6rt cloud radius, the Ousters fell on Bressia like some Old Testament plague.†   (source)
  • Still, no matter what your religious beliefs, to get the most out of your reading of European and American literatures, knowing something about the Old and New Testaments is essential.†   (source)
  • When we asked him why, he said that though he had not understood the Dutch words, he had seen that Father was reading from the Old Testament which, he informed us, was the Jews' "Book of Lies."†   (source)
  • She hadn't known that Muslims consider the Qur'an the fourth book of God to His messengers, after the Old Testament (referred to as the Tawrat, or the Law), the Psalms (the Zabur), and the New Testament (Injeil).†   (source)
  • Old Testament God.†   (source)
  • There was nothing in the flat-earth views of the Old and New Testaments that predicted it.†   (source)
  • It got so that it didn't matter what Bible story she or I read to our tiny evangelist at night, whether from the Old Testament, the New Testament, about Moses or Noah or King Solomon, Colton wrapped up the night with the same message: "Jesus loves the children!†   (source)
  • The wife of the accused man appeared, briefly, as if she might turn in his direction and go to him, but instead she proceeded without hurry toward Ed Soames, who stood in front of the witness stand proffering the Old Testament patiently.†   (source)
  • The Muslims' holy scripture, the Koran, and the Old Testament were both written in the Semitic family of languages.†   (source)
  • It seems unlikely, I agree, but the fact remains that Harriet wrote the initials R.J. in her date book next to the reference to the Old Testament law about burnt offerings.†   (source)
  • He slapped open a copy of the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • His Koran, being the most recent holy book, takes precedence over the Old and New Testaments.†   (source)
  • …Bede, urged him with a certain fatherly malice to get into the discussion, and without even taking a breath, he explained that the cockroach, the oldest winged insect on the face of the earth, had already been the victim of slippers in the Old Testament, but that since the species was definitely resistant to any and all methods of extermination, from tomato dices with borax to flour and sugar, and with its one thousand six hundred three varieties had resisted the most ancient,…†   (source)
  • Old Testament outbreaks of great red boils.†   (source)
  • The angel in the Old Testament story kept three men safe in the middle of a place like that.†   (source)
  • The words were terrible, worse than any threat of doom in the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • If the Pharaoh's daughter hadn't snatched the basket carrying little Moses from the waves, there would have been no Old Testament, no civilization as we now know it!†   (source)
  • Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memorized the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • The word Messiah isn't in the Old Testament …. just the Hebrew word for anointed.†   (source)
  • But later that day Andrew Merrick too, came home, his beard grown long and bushy as an Old Testament prophet.†   (source)
  • The Old Testament is scary, filled with misery.†   (source)
  • He memorized them too, especially the ones that dealt with the prophets in the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • The suggestion came from R.W. Quincy, who had read to page three of the Old Testament and had retained this bit of information since it had just filtered in that very morning.†   (source)
  • He explained what he meant by telling me a story which sounded a little like something out of the Old Testament; but which, so Mike assured me, was a part of the semi-religious folklore of the inland Eskimos, who, alas for their immortal souls, were still happily heathen.†   (source)
  • The old and wise lady began to tell us a story from the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • He looked and sounded like a rebellious Old Testament prophet.†   (source)
  • But there's a story from the Old Testament that's an even closer parallel… .†   (source)
  • Her theology was a curious mixture of Irish fairies and an Old Testament Jehovah whom in her later life she confused with her father.†   (source)
  • SUNLIGHT (in the voice of a lecturer): You're familiar, I suppose, with the conflict of the Old Testament Jews and the Babylonians?†   (source)
  • The theology of the Old Testament prophets was a third.†   (source)
  • Miss Maudie's face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence.   (source)
    Old Testament = from the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible
  • Well if we came out durin' the Old Testament it's too long ago to matter.   (source)
    Old Testament = the sacred scripture of the Hebrews which is the first half of the Christian Bible
  • First, the concept of laying a cornerstone comes from the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • The Hebrew word for God in the Old Testament!†   (source)
  • One of the Old Testament words for "god" has the same semantic root as the Muslim Allah.†   (source)
  • It's the final 'The Verse' in the Old Testament, I'm trying to tell you.†   (source)
  • Shouldn't his kids know the Old Testament?†   (source)
  • ""The closing statement of the Old Testament: 'So this will be the end.†   (source)
  • Reading the Old Testament and hoping it brought you something to eat, that's what you did.†   (source)
  • The Old Testament commands that the people shall not make any image of God.†   (source)
  • There is a reason that Jewish mystics and Kabbalists pore over the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • Every evening after supper Tateh would sit me and Sam down and make us study the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • Children are judgmental on an Old Testament level.†   (source)
  • Because the atomic bomb is Old Testament.†   (source)
  • Is that from the Old Testament or the New Testament?†   (source)
  • No wonder the Old Testament prophets pour out the acid of their derision on the idol and its maker.†   (source)
  • Adam said, "Do you mean these Chinese men believe the Old Testament?†   (source)
  • Text encrypted with Atbash is found throughout the Kabbala, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and even the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • "But if they learn that Uncle Willem was teaching this morning from the Old Testament, it could make trouble for him," Peter finished for me.†   (source)
  • I worked through the Old Testament next, then I read Dad's books, which were mostly compilations of the speeches, letters and journals of the early Mormon prophets.†   (source)
  • Amused by the thought that the entire Talmud and the Old Testament might be nothing more than a cosmic shaggy-dog story.†   (source)
  • "There's really nothing special about them at all, except that they came into existence somewhat later than the rest of the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • The mythos includes not only the Greek myths but the Old Testament, the Vedic Hymns and the early legends of all cultures which have contributed to our present world understanding.†   (source)
  • THE KIND OF FATE HARDY BELIEVES IN IS ALMOST LIKE BELIEVING IN GOD—AT LEAST IN THAT TERRIBLE, JUDGMENTAL GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT HARDY HATES INSTITUTIONS: THE CHURCH—MORE THAN FAITH OR BELIEF— AND CERTAINLY MARRIAGE (THE INSTITUTION OF IT), AND THE INSTITUTION OF EDUCATION.†   (source)
  • She told him that she had prayed for God to give her a message for our family, and a small verse from the Old Testament zipped into her mind: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."†   (source)
  • Within weeks, several more Atbash code words were uncovered in the Old Testament, unveiling myriad hidden meanings that scholars had no idea were there.†   (source)
  • One finds that in the Judeo-Christian culture in which the Old Testament "Word" had an intrinsic sacredness of its own, men are willing to sacrifice and live by and die for words.†   (source)
  • The Greek word apokryphos means 'hidden,' and the Apocrypha are therefore the hidden books which some consider highly controversial and others think should be included in the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • For him, the similarity between Plato and the Christian doctrine was so apparent that he thought Plato must have had knowl-edge of the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • In 1823 when the Old Testament appeared with the verse "And Rebekah arose with her camels"—instead of damsels—it was known as the Camel's Bible.†   (source)
  • This treasured book, like all Masonic Bibles, contained the Old Testament, the New Testament, and a treasure trove of Masonic philosophical writings.†   (source)
  • There are probably a hundred reasons why Ruthie should have stayed on the Jewish side, instead of taking New Jersey Transit and the F train to go to a Christian church in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with her shvartse children and friends, and I'm sure the Old Testament lists them all, but I'm glad she came over to the African-American side.†   (source)
  • Old Testament.†   (source)
  • He was more influenced by the linear view of history as we meet it in the Old Testament: the idea that God needs all of history in order to realize his Kingdom of God.†   (source)
  • In the Old Testament we read how the people "heard" the word of the Lord, and the Jewish prophets usually began their sermons with the words: "Thus spake Jehovah (God)."†   (source)
  • Lincoln continues: "There are, I think, some sixteen chapters in the Old Testament and four or five in the New in which dreams are mentioned….†   (source)
  • When I was small and would leaf through the Old Testament retold for children and illustrated in engravings by Gustave Dore, I saw the Lord God standing on a cloud.†   (source)
  • Before the insurrection was to take place, he quoted from the Book of Zechariah in the Old Testament: "Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.†   (source)
  • Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure.†   (source)
  • This quote could have come from the priest; it could have come from God; it could have been the only line he knew in the whole Old Testament.†   (source)
  • Such comparisons bring out, very strikingly, I think, the way in which the Old Testament is old and the Gospel is new.†   (source)
  • "The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments," he read aloud from the title-page.†   (source)
  • And the Hebrews of the Old Testament, always being carried captive into foreign lands,—their rock was an idea of God, the only thing their conquerors could not take from them.†   (source)
  • Led by the usher's flashlight I stumbled through the curtains into the darkened hall, found a seat and was suddenly in the middle of the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • Shame and fear sped her homeward and, in her mind, Archie with his patriarch's beard assumed the proportions of an avenging angel straight from the pages of the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • 38 The Old Testament records a comparable deed in its legend of Moses, who, in the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of Egypt, came with his people into the wilderness of Sinai; and there Israel pitched their tents over against the mountain.†   (source)
  • Jesse's mind went back to the men of Old Testament days who had also owned lands and herds.†   (source)
  • Lucy selected a book--a volume of Old Testament commentaries.†   (source)
  • "Ah," said Adam, "I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament.†   (source)
  • They're very difficult, in the Old Testament particularly.†   (source)
  • But his father did not make him repeat it, and passed on to the lesson out of the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • It was a joy to learn the secrets of nature: how—in the picturesque language of the Old Testament—the winds are made to blow from the four corners of the heavens, how the vapours ascend from the ends of the earth, how rivers are cut out among the rocks, and mountains overturned by the roots, and in what ways man may overcome many forces mightier than himself.†   (source)
  • "Martin Cole, I hold to the spirit of our fathers," replied Naab, like one reading from the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • "This is Ahab, that's Jezebel," said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history.†   (source)
  • Before our eyes, in the distance, a promised or an accursed land, Roussainville, within whose walls I had never penetrated, Roussainville was now, when the rain had ceased for us, still being chastised, like a village in the Old Testament, by all the innumerable spears and arrows of the storm, which beat down obliquely upon the dwellings of its inhabitants, or else had already received the forgiveness of the Almighty, Who had restored to it the light of His sun, which fell upon it in…†   (source)
  • The method of the League was to alternate a book of the Old Testament with a book of the New, and one night Philip came across these words of Jesus Christ: If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig-tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.†   (source)
  • You enjoy with all your soul the sweet thunder of the Old Testament, forgetting the existence of Jahweh and Elohim; and you go home feeling that you have had "a glimpse of that perfection in which spirit and form dwell in immortal harmony; truth and beauty bearing a new growth on the ancient stem of time."†   (source)
  • Similar plays, chiefly from the Old Testament, were occasionally performed in Moscow too, up to the times of Peter the Great.†   (source)
  • To the enquiries of Athelstane and Cedric, the old Jew could for some time only answer by invoking the protection of all the patriarchs of the Old Testament successively against the sons of Ishmael, who were coming to smite them, hip and thigh, with the edge of the sword.†   (source)
  • 'tis the six-and-twentieth edition, promulgated at Boston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, 'The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England'."†   (source)
  • These antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they were all there, seated in a circle around a dying fire, sparely lighted by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with…†   (source)
  • "Did you have a nice walk?" said Alexey Alexandrovitch, sitting down in his easy chair, pulling the volume of the Old Testament to him and opening it.†   (source)
  • The lesson consisted of learning by heart several verses out of the Gospel and the repetition of the beginning of the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • Last time he had remembered their names, but now he had forgotten them utterly, chiefly because Enoch was the personage he liked best in the whole of the Old Testament, and Enoch's translation to heaven was connected in his mind with a whole long train of thought, in which he became absorbed now while he gazed with fascinated eyes at his father's watch-chain and a half-unbuttoned button on his waistcoat.†   (source)
  • I wish also to recall to memory an instance from the Old Testament applicable to this subject.†   (source)
  • I felt a slight shock at the touch, and thought of an Old Testament passage—"For Jacob's skin was smooth, while his brother Esau was a hairy man."†   (source)
  • Have you got an old testament?†   (source)
  • Thus when an artificial prudery in English ordered the abandonment of the Anglo-Saxon /sick/ for the Gothic /ill/, the colonies refused to follow, for /sick/ was in both the Old Testament and the New;[38] and that refusal remains in force to this day.†   (source)
  • And calling himself a Frenchy for the shawls, Joseph Manuo, and talking against the Catholic religion, and he serving mass in Adam and Eve's when he was young with his eyes shut, who wrote the new testament, and the old testament, and hugging and smugging.†   (source)
  • In the Old Testament, the sign of Admission was Circumcision; in the New Testament, Baptisme.†   (source)
  • The Scriptures here mentioned were the Scriptures of the Jews, that is, the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • And these are the wayes whereby God declared his Will in the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • So in the old Testament he that came to anoynt Jehu, (2 Kings 9.†   (source)
  • That which God usually accepted in the Old Testament, was some Sacrifice, or Oblation.†   (source)
  • And thus much concerning the time of the writing of the Bookes of the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • To mention all the places of the Old Testament where the name of Angel is found, would be too long.†   (source)
  • But hearken, lordings, one word, I you pray, That all the sovreign actes, dare I say, Of victories in the Old Testament, Through very God that is omnipotent, Were done in abstinence and in prayere: Look in the Bible, and there ye may it lear.†   (source)
  • Nay, in those ages of the world, it was believed that spirits intermeddled in the affairs of mankind; and, throughout the Old Testament, I do not find any thing that in the least contradicts is.†   (source)
  • Neither did the other Prophets of the old Testament pretend Enthusiasme; or, that God spake in them; but to them by Voyce, Vision, or Dream; and the Burthen Of The Lord was not Possession, but Command.†   (source)
  • And furthermore, I pray you looke well In the Old Testament, of Daniel, If he held dreames any vanity.†   (source)
  • In the other places, which he alledgeth out of the old Testament, there is not so much as any shew, or colour of proofe.†   (source)
  • Therefore in what manner God spake to those Soveraign Prophets of the Old Testament, whose office it was to enquire of him, is not intelligible.†   (source)
  • To Prophets Of Perpetuall Calling, And Supreme, God Spake In The Old Testament From The Mercy Seat, In A Manner Not Expressed In The Scripture.†   (source)
  • Of Ecclesiasticall Revenue, Under The Law Of Moses Under the Old Testament, the Tribe of Levi were onely capable of the Priesthood, and other inferiour Offices of the Church.†   (source)
  • Our Saviour here speaketh of the Scriptures onely of the Old Testament; for the Jews at that time could not search the Scriptures of the New Testament, which were not written.†   (source)
  • Every of the Evangelists was Interpreter of his own Gospel; and every Apostle of his own Epistle; And of the Old Testament, our Saviour himselfe saith to the Jews (John 5.†   (source)
  • The texts for Purgatory alledged by Bellarmine out of the Canonicall Scripture of the old Testament, are first, the Fasting of David for Saul and Jonathan, mentioned (2 Kings, 1.†   (source)
  • &c. and in the New Testament there was but one onely mark; and that was the preaching of this Doctrine, That Jesus Is The Christ, that is, the King of the Jews, promised in the Old Testament.†   (source)
  • &C) to know a Spirit by: and seeing there is so much Prophecying in the Old Testament; and so much Preaching in the New Testament against Prophets; and so much greater a number ordinarily of false Prophets, then of true; every one is to beware of obeying their directions, at their own perill.†   (source)
  • It is evident that the Prophets of the Old Testament foretold, and the Jews expected a Messiah, that is, a Christ, that should re-establish amongst them the kingdom of God, which had been rejected by them in the time of Samuel, when they required a King after the manner of other Nations.†   (source)
  • Of which rules, in the Old Testament, one was, conformable doctrine to that which Moses the Soveraign Prophet had taught them; and the other the miraculous power of foretelling what God would bring to passe, as I have already shown out of Deut.†   (source)
  • To The Extraordinary Prophets Of The Old Testament He Spake By Dreams, Or Visions In what manner God spake to Adam, and Eve, and Cain, and Noah, is not expressed; nor how he spake to Abraham, till such time as he came out of his own countrey to Sichem in the land of Canaan; and then (Gen.†   (source)
  • According to this obligation, I can acknowledge no other Books of the Old Testament, to be Holy Scripture, but those which have been commanded to be acknowledged for such, by the Authority of the Church of England.†   (source)
  • And in the Old Testament, though the Priest only had right to Consecrate, during the time that the Soveraignty was in the High Priest; yet it was not so when the Soveraignty was in the King: For we read (1 Kings 8.†   (source)
  • Our Saviour Christs sufferings seem to be here figured, as cleerly, as in the oblation of Isaac, or in any other type of him in the Old Testament: He was both the sacrificed Goat, and the Scape Goat; "Hee was oppressed, and he was afflicted (Isa.†   (source)
  • But the Old Testament hath nothing of Christ, but the Markes by which men might know him when hee came; as that he should descend from David, be born at Bethlehem, and of a Virgin; doe great Miracles, and the like.†   (source)
  • There be also other Consecrations, that may be called Sacraments, as the word implyeth onely Consecration to Gods service; but as it implies an oath, or promise of Alleageance to God, there were no other in the Old Testament, but Circumcision, and the Passover; nor are there any other in the New Testament, but Baptisme, and the Lords Supper.†   (source)
  • For as Moses, and the High Priests, were Gods Representative in the Old Testament; and our Saviour himselfe as Man, during his abode on earth: So the Holy Ghost, that is to say, the Apostles, and their successors, in the Office of Preaching, and Teaching, that had received the Holy Spirit, have Represented him ever since.†   (source)
  • In summe, the Histories and the Prophecies of the old Testament, and the Gospels, and Epistles of the New Testament, have had one and the same scope, to convert men to the obedience of God; 1. in Moses, and the Priests; 2. in the man Christ; and 3. in the Apostles and the successors to Apostolicall power.†   (source)
  • The Old Testament, When Made Canonicall From whence we may inferre, that the Scriptures of the Old Testament, which we have at this day, were not Canonicall, nor a Law unto the Jews, till the renovation of their Covenant with God at their return from the Captivity, and restauration of their Common-wealth under Esdras.†   (source)
  • But if we consider the places of the Old Testament where Angels are mentioned, we shall find, that in most of them, there can nothing else be understood by the word Angel, but some image raised (supernaturally) in the fancy, to signifie the presence of God in the execution of some supernaturall work; and therefore in the rest, where their nature is not exprest, it may be understood in the same manner.†   (source)
  • All Prophecy But Of The Soveraign Prophet Is To Be Examined By Every Subject Seeing then there was in the time of the Old Testament, such quarrells amongst the Visionary Prophets, one contesting with another, and asking When departed the Spirit from me, to go to thee? as between Michaiah, and the rest of the four hundred; and such giving of the Lye to one another, (as in Jerem.†   (source)
  • And therefore so far forth as concerneth the Old Testament, we may conclude, that whosoever had the Soveraignty of the Common-wealth amongst the Jews, the same had also the Supreme Authority in matter of Gods externall worship; and represented Gods Person; that is the person of God the Father; though he were not called by the name of Father, till such time as he sent into the world his Son Jesus Christ, to redeem mankind from their sins, and bring them into his Everlasting Kingdome, to…†   (source)
  • Of Prophets, that were so by a perpetuall Calling in the Old Testament, some were Supreme, and some Subordinate: Supreme were first Moses; and after him the High Priest, every one for his time, as long as the Priesthood was Royall; and after the people of the Jews, had rejected God, that he should no more reign over them, those Kings which submitted themselves to Gods government, were also his chief Prophets; and the High Priests office became Ministeriall.†   (source)
  • The Kingdome therefore of God, is a reall, not a metaphoricall Kingdome; and so taken, not onely in the Old Testament, but the New; when we say, "For thine is the Kingdome, the Power, and Glory," it is to be understood of Gods Kingdome, by force of our Covenant, not by the Right of Gods Power; for such a Kingdome God alwaies hath; so that it were superfluous to say in our prayer, "Thy Kingdome come," unlesse it be meant of the Restauration of that Kingdome of God by Christ, which by…†   (source)
  • "And Solomon awoak, and behold it was a Dream:" So that generally the Prophets extraordinary in the old Testament took notice of the Word of God no otherwise, than from their Dreams, or Visions, that is to say, from the imaginations which they had in their sleep, or in an Extasie; which imaginations in every true Prophet were supernaturall; but in false Prophets were either naturall, or feigned.†   (source)
  • …The Books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Samuel, to the time of Saul, describe the acts of Gods people, till the time they cast off Gods yoke, and called for a King, after the manner of their neighbour nations; The rest of the History of the Old Testament, derives the succession of the line of David, to the Captivity, out of which line was to spring the restorer of the Kingdome of God, even our blessed Saviour God the Son, whose coming was foretold in the Bookes of the Prophets, after…†   (source)
  • Considering therefore the signification of the word Angel in the Old Testament, and the nature of Dreams and Visions that happen to men by the ordinary way of Nature; I was enclined to this opinion, that Angels were nothing but supernaturall apparitions of the Fancy, raised by the speciall and extraordinary operation of God, thereby to make his presence and commandements known to mankind, and chiefly to his own people.†   (source)
  • But considering the Inscriptions, or Titles of their Books, it is manifest enough, that the whole Scripture of the Old Testament, was set forth in the form we have it, after the return of the Jews from their Captivity in Babylon, and before the time of Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, that caused it to bee translated into Greek by seventy men, which were sent him out of Judea for that purpose.†   (source)
  • By the name of Christ, is understood the King, which God had before promised by the Prophets of the Old Testament, to send into the world, to reign (over the Jews, and over such of other nations as should beleeve in him) under himself eternally; and to give them that eternall life, which was lost by the sin of Adam.†   (source)
  • The Commemoration of it in the Old Testament, was the Eating (at a certain time, which was Anniversary) of the Paschall Lamb; by which they were put in mind of the night wherein they were delivered out of their bondage in Egypt; and in the New Testament, the celebrating of the Lords Supper; by which, we are put in mind, of our deliverance from the bondage of sin, by our Blessed Saviours death upon the crosse.†   (source)
  • To mention all the places of the Old Testament where the name of Angel is found, would be too long. Therefore to comprehend them all at once, I say, there is no text in that part of the Old Testament, which the Church of England holdeth for Canonicall, from which we can conclude, there is, or hath been created, any permanent thing (understood by the name of Spirit or Angel,) that hath not quantity; and that may not be, by the understanding divided; that is to say, considered by parts; so as one part may bee in one place, and the next part i†   (source)
  • …God and Man), the Son is that God; As represented by Moses, and the High Priests, the Father, that is to say, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that God: From whence we may gather the reason why those names Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the signification of the Godhead, are never used in the Old Testament: For they are Persons, that is, they have their names from Representing; which could not be, till divers men had Represented Gods Person in ruling, or in directing under him.†   (source)
  • …opinions of Daemons, Good and Evill; which because they seemed to subsist really, they called Substances; and because they could not feel them with their hands, Incorporeall: so also the Jews upon the same ground, without any thing in the Old Testament that constrained them thereunto, had generally an opinion, (except the sect of the Sadduces,) that those apparitions (which it pleased God sometimes to produce in the fancie of men, for his own service, and therefore called them his…†   (source)
  • in the apparition of a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: And after the time of Moses, (where the manner how God spake immediately to man in the Old Testament, is expressed) hee spake alwaies by a Vision, or by a Dream; as to Gideon, Samuel, Eliah, Elisha, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and the rest of the Prophets; and often in the New Testament, as to Joseph, to St. Peter, to St. Paul, and to St. John the Evangelist in the Apocalypse.†   (source)
  • But to teach out of the Old Testament that Jesus was Christ, (that is to say, King,) and risen from the dead, is not to say, that men are bound after they beleeve it, to obey those that tell them so, against the laws, and commands of their Soveraigns; but that they shall doe wisely, to expect the coming of Christ hereafter, in Patience, and Faith, with Obedience to their present Magistrates.†   (source)
  • For, as the Bookes of the Old Testament are derived to us, from no higher time then that of Esdras, who by the direction of Gods Spirit retrived them, when they were lost: Those of the New Testament, of which the copies were not many, nor could easily be all in any one private mans hand, cannot bee derived from a higher time, that that wherein the Governours of the Church collected, approved, and recommended them to us, as the writings of those Apostles and Disciples; under whose names…†   (source)
  • …men were profitable to the Church: as Evangelists, by writing the life and acts of our Saviour; such as were S. Matthew and S. John Apostles, and S. Marke and S. Luke Disciples, and whosoever else wrote of that subject, (as S. Thomas, and S. Barnabas are said to have done, though the Church have not received the Books that have gone under their names:) and as Prophets, by the gift of interpreting the Old Testament; and sometimes by declaring their speciall Revelations to the Church.†   (source)
  • For these three at several times did represent the person of God: Moses, and his successors the High Priests, and Kings of Judah, in the Old Testament: Christ himself, in the time he lived on earth: and the Apostles, and their successors, from the day of Pentecost (when the Holy Ghost descended on them) to this day.†   (source)
  • "all Scripture is given by Inspiration from God," speaking there of the Scripture of the Old Testament, it is an easie metaphor, to signifie, that God enclined the spirit or mind of those Writers, to write that which should be usefull, in teaching, reproving, correcting, and instructing men in the way of righteous living.†   (source)
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