 | Yarouṭiun Augerean - 1832 - 250 pages
...n TfuinuiuinnL.[3-lriilf IL. A Jinuig ^ufiiiL-uilflruii hglf nuiuuinL.infi-uilfnflfli "iiJufiinif_, forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we...is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. The nominative of nouns agrees generally in number with a verb which is not a... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1832 - 1030 pages
...of their nature. This ¡в also implied in tho striking argument of St. Paul with the Athenians : " Forasmuch, then, as we are the OFFSPRING of God, we...is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device ;" — plainly referring to the idolatrous statues by which God was represented... | |
 | Thomas Harvey Skinner - 1832 - 38 pages
...that principle of natural theology, while thus he reasoned with his dignified auditory, " Forasmuch as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think...is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." And let the world produce, if it can, specimens of sounder or deeper reasoning... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...which aid and confirm our more enlightened reason, in the solemn and unexceptionable position that " we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto...silver, or stone, graven by art or man's device." — Acts xvii, 29. It appears that this image continued for several ages to assist the illusions of... | |
 | 1833 - 82 pages
...he be not far from every one of us : for in him we live, and move, and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also...is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men every... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1833 - 628 pages
...classical learning, and was no stranger to a taste and politeness worthy of an Attic audience. — That forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we...Godhead is like unto gold or silver or stone, graven by art and man's device : which was plainly pointed at the gross idolatry of the lower people, who thought... | |
 | David Thom - 1833 - 454 pages
...assembled Areopagites and philosophers at Athens. In him we live, and move, and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets have said, for we are also...THEN, AS WE ARE THE OFFSPRING OF GOD, we ought not, &C. Acts xvii. 28, 29. No man can be ignorant, that a very large proportion, if not the whole, of the... | |
 | Universalist Church of America. General Convention. Concord, N.H. 1832 - 1833 - 152 pages
...as an undeniable fact, and a truth, of all others, the most intereslins, he thus reasons — That " as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think...is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." Such ideas of the Supreme Being, must only be imputed to the grossest ignorance... | |
 | David Thom - 1833 - 458 pages
...assembled Areopagites and philosophers at Athens. In him we live, and move, and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets have said, for we are also...FORASMUCH, THEN, AS WE ARE THE OFFSPRING OF GOD, we Olight not, &C. Acts xvii. 28, 29. No man can be ignorant, that a very large proportion, if not the... | |
 | Lucius Robinson Paige - 1833 - 340 pages
...apostles, will reconcile the mind of the attentive inquirer to it.' Expos. in loc. SECTION LXVI. ' And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but...every where to repent : Because he hath appointed a dav, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. by that Man whom he hath ordained : whereof... | |
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Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 
