This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ... at last we should have no discourses at all to argue about. Allman. By jingo, there's no standing that, as the man. said when the gasometer blew him up in the air. Upon my word, I didn't see what you were at till now. Of course, if a man's bumptious enough to deny one part, there is no earthly reason why he shouldn't ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ... at last we should have no discourses at all to argue about. Allman. By jingo, there's no standing that, as the man. said when the gasometer blew him up in the air. Upon my word, I didn't see what you were at till now. Of course, if a man's bumptious enough to deny one part, there is no earthly reason why he shouldn't trump up some objection against another; ami so on all through. At last there wouldn't be an inch of ground to stand upon. Browne. Just so; and there's another point, which you may not have noticed, where your friend Mr. Jackson has taken what I should call an unfair advantage over you. Allman. How's that? 'Browne. Why, he confined you to our Lord's own sermons and discourses. Allman. Of course he did. Why, what else would you have? Browne. Did the Apostles, SS. Peter, Paul, James, John, Jude, write on their own hook, or were they inspired by the Holy Ghost to put in writing the doctrine of their Master, Christ, for the teaching of the Church? Allman. Who ever doubted that? They teach us the truth as it was revealed to them. But I don't see, even now, what you are about. Browne. Then you're not as sharp as usual, Allman. I think we must lay it at the door of that cigar. Didn't each of those Apostles write epistles or letters which are in your Now Testament? Allman. Yes, of course they did, and no mistake. Browne. And you owned just now that they contain part of the Gospel of Christ; isn't it so? Allman. Certainly; what of that? Browne. Why did Mr. Jackson leave them out of his calculation, and keep you to the Gospels only? Was it, perhaps, because, as St. Peter says of the Epistles of his glorious coApostle St. Paul, ' There are certain things in them hard to be understood, which the unlearned and the unstable twist, as they do also the other ...
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