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To this self-evidencing knowledge of the whole the faculty of mind is supposed to correspond.
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The self-evidencing efficacy of faith in spiritual experiences strengthens their persuasion.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Things that have a self-evidencing power, may be hindered from exerting it; but when they do exert it, it is evident.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The nature of divine revelations -- Their self-evidencing power considered, particularly that of the Scriptures as the word of God.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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So may the Scripture have, and hath, a self-evidencing efficacy, though this appear not unto the light of first natural principles, no, nor to bare reason in its exercise; for, --
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Every gracious, self-evidencing act of his in their hearts they rejoice in, as a drop from heaven, and long for the ocean of it.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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The feature of Christ's teaching which most arrested intelligent listeners in his own day, was its inherent, self-evidencing majesty.
The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot
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He shines forth with the self-evidencing light of the noonday sun.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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God, the instinctive sense which we possess of our allegiance to him, and of the self-evidencing power with which his voice reaches the reason and the conscience, to question the necessity which every man is under to decide all questions touching his duty to God for himself.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Religious experience is self-evidencing to the religious.
Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking Henry Sloane Coffin 1915
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