Letters to the Rev. Ezra Stiles ElyBradford and Read, 1814 - 325 pages |
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... fall of the first man , and in him the ruin of his posterity , but also “ disposed it after his own will . " " The fall of man “ proceeded from the wonderous counsel of God . " " When we affirm that God fore ordained that man " should ...
... fall of the first man , and in him the ruin of his posterity , but also “ disposed it after his own will . " " The fall of man “ proceeded from the wonderous counsel of God . " " When we affirm that God fore ordained that man " should ...
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... fall , and its consequences . " " The former say , Sin- GB ners , you are infected with original sin , as well as " guilty of actual transgression . You are weak as " well as wicked ; having neither the power , nor the disposition to ...
... fall , and its consequences . " " The former say , Sin- GB ners , you are infected with original sin , as well as " guilty of actual transgression . You are weak as " well as wicked ; having neither the power , nor the disposition to ...
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... fall thereby ; and for aught we know , fell by the very first that assailed him . Exalted ideas of Adam's primeval perfection , sur- passing all credibility , have been imagined and assert- ed by multitudes . The love of the marvellous ...
... fall thereby ; and for aught we know , fell by the very first that assailed him . Exalted ideas of Adam's primeval perfection , sur- passing all credibility , have been imagined and assert- ed by multitudes . The love of the marvellous ...
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... fall of Adam , as an unfathomable mys- " tery . " ( Emmons . ) Immortality constituted no inherent quality of the bodies of our first parents , and was attainable to them only through access to the tree of life . The cir- cumstance of ...
... fall of Adam , as an unfathomable mys- " tery . " ( Emmons . ) Immortality constituted no inherent quality of the bodies of our first parents , and was attainable to them only through access to the tree of life . The cir- cumstance of ...
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... fall , and before the grace and promise of a Saviour , how deplorable must have been the condition of Adam's posterity . Eject- ed from Eden , and expelled into a wilderness world . Actuated by strong animal propensions and passions ...
... fall , and before the grace and promise of a Saviour , how deplorable must have been the condition of Adam's posterity . Eject- ed from Eden , and expelled into a wilderness world . Actuated by strong animal propensions and passions ...
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Page 59 - Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Page 312 - Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play (also read Exodus 32:6).
Page 68 - For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Page 286 - How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit...
Page 261 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 150 - Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of Hosts.
Page 182 - Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
Page 281 - And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift : for the judgment was by one to condemnation ; but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
Page 292 - ... tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ; but glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: for there is no respect of persons with God.
Page 310 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.