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... answer , ( on the Scripture hypothesis , ) " It is the gift of God . " No man is able to work it in himself . It is a work of Omnipotence . It requires no less power thus to quicken a dead soul , than to raise a body that lies in the ...
... answer , ( on the Scripture hypothesis , ) " It is the gift of God . " No man is able to work it in himself . It is a work of Omnipotence . It requires no less power thus to quicken a dead soul , than to raise a body that lies in the ...
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... answer was , What do you apprehend to be more valuable than good sense , good nature , and good manners ? All these are contained , and that in the highest degree , in what I mean by Christianity . Good sense ( so called ) is 1 but a ...
... answer was , What do you apprehend to be more valuable than good sense , good nature , and good manners ? All these are contained , and that in the highest degree , in what I mean by Christianity . Good sense ( so called ) is 1 but a ...
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... answer , and make the author appear as irrational and contemptible as he labours to make Christ and his apostles . 38. I have hitherto spoken to those , chiefly , who do not receive the Christian system as of God . I would add a few ...
... answer , and make the author appear as irrational and contemptible as he labours to make Christ and his apostles . 38. I have hitherto spoken to those , chiefly , who do not receive the Christian system as of God . I would add a few ...
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... answer as well as the objection , I believe it clearly appears , that we are neither undermining nor destroying , neither dividing nor leaving the Church . So far from it , that we have great heaviness , on her account , yea , continual ...
... answer as well as the objection , I believe it clearly appears , that we are neither undermining nor destroying , neither dividing nor leaving the Church . So far from it , that we have great heaviness , on her account , yea , continual ...
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... answered some of the most important , as well as the most common objections to each . But I have not yet delivered my own soul . I believe it is still incumbent upon me to answer other objections , particularly such as have been urged ...
... answered some of the most important , as well as the most common objections to each . But I have not yet delivered my own soul . I believe it is still incumbent upon me to answer other objections , particularly such as have been urged ...
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Page 276 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 87 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth ; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him : but ye know him ; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 16 - For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Page 129 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and Work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 102 - And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Page 192 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Page 88 - And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they believe not on me: of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
Page 85 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Page 194 - And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, Which men deliver to one that is learned, Saying, Read this, I pray thee: And he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, Saying, Read this, I pray thee : And he saith, I am not learned.
Page 78 - I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.