The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index, Volume 4Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1844 |
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... contrary to the light of nature ; and the most horrid vices and immoralities have been esteemed harmless , yea , accounted virtues among them ; such as revenge , cruelty , and incest . Many nations have openly allowed the practice of ...
... contrary to the light of nature ; and the most horrid vices and immoralities have been esteemed harmless , yea , accounted virtues among them ; such as revenge , cruelty , and incest . Many nations have openly allowed the practice of ...
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... contrary to truth , but very contrary to humanity ; not only against the light of nature , but against the more innocent inclinations of nature . Such has been , and still is , the blindness of many nations in the world , that they ...
... contrary to truth , but very contrary to humanity ; not only against the light of nature , but against the more innocent inclinations of nature . Such has been , and still is , the blindness of many nations in the world , that they ...
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... contrary as possible to reason much less would they fall into them , after they had once been in- structed in the truth . For , were it not very strange and great sottishness in- deed , they would - when they come to be informed of the ...
... contrary as possible to reason much less would they fall into them , after they had once been in- structed in the truth . For , were it not very strange and great sottishness in- deed , they would - when they come to be informed of the ...
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... contrary to natural affection , as offering their children in sacri- fice to Moloch , burning them alive , in a most cruel manner . In the time of Christ and the apostles , the Jews had great means of instruc- tion , and most of the ...
... contrary to natural affection , as offering their children in sacri- fice to Moloch , burning them alive , in a most cruel manner . In the time of Christ and the apostles , the Jews had great means of instruc- tion , and most of the ...
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... contrary opinions are mixed and jumbled , divided and sub- divided ; and every new writer is willing to have the credit of some new notion . And after this manner does this miserable world go on in endless confusion ; like a great ...
... contrary opinions are mixed and jumbled , divided and sub- divided ; and every new writer is willing to have the credit of some new notion . And after this manner does this miserable world go on in endless confusion ; like a great ...
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Page 420 - But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you, cannot ; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Page 132 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 127 - Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 200 - At that day ye shall ask in my name : and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you : for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Page 434 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; "that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Page 311 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 641 - Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us : therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness ; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Page 368 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 543 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly ; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called...
Page 226 - What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise : for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin ; as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable ; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.