A Treatise on Free Agency: Maintaining that the Immutability of the Divine Nature is Perfectly Compatible with the Moral Freedom of the Intellectual World; Also, A Dissertation on the Mosaic Account of the Creation; Comprising Its Most Remarkable Internal Evidences Respecting the Antiquity of the Earth, &cJ. Hatchard and Son, 1829 - 228 pages |
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... of rea- son and Revelation , he would speak like a friend , and not like an enemy , to all those who may conscientiously differ with him in opinion . Though resolute to maintain his own sentiments till convicted of SECTION.
... of rea- son and Revelation , he would speak like a friend , and not like an enemy , to all those who may conscientiously differ with him in opinion . Though resolute to maintain his own sentiments till convicted of SECTION.
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... revelation , that it was made by the Omnipotent all - perfect First Cause ; and that He could not have made it for no purpose ; as also that He would not have made it for a comparatively un- wise purpose . As , therefore , it would have ...
... revelation , that it was made by the Omnipotent all - perfect First Cause ; and that He could not have made it for no purpose ; as also that He would not have made it for a comparatively un- wise purpose . As , therefore , it would have ...
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... revelation , or divine inspi- ration , or both , being indispensable ; the First Cause supremely governs his intellectual crea- tion . For ( by No. 10 , ) as the intellectual creation was originally rendered susceptible of acting in ...
... revelation , or divine inspi- ration , or both , being indispensable ; the First Cause supremely governs his intellectual crea- tion . For ( by No. 10 , ) as the intellectual creation was originally rendered susceptible of acting in ...
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... revelation , would seem as if the Creator claimed only a part of his works . However briefly , then , the universe in general might be alluded to , ( as not requiring to be more particularly mentioned in a record relating chiefly to our ...
... revelation , would seem as if the Creator claimed only a part of his works . However briefly , then , the universe in general might be alluded to , ( as not requiring to be more particularly mentioned in a record relating chiefly to our ...
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... to three persons . Hence the divine Trinity in Unity can be fully supported by the sacred scriptures . ( See Disser . parag . 12 , on the word Elohim . ) SECTION II . Both Reason and Revelation may be so 42 ON FREE - AGENCY .
... to three persons . Hence the divine Trinity in Unity can be fully supported by the sacred scriptures . ( See Disser . parag . 12 , on the word Elohim . ) SECTION II . Both Reason and Revelation may be so 42 ON FREE - AGENCY .
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abuse according accordingly aith all-perfect appear attributes benevolence Buxtorf called cause Christ co-eternal conditional election Creator deduced divine energies divine nature divine Providence divine wisdom duration earth effect election elementary structure Elohim energy of God energy or modus Esau eternal discernment eternally-operating energy ev'ry evince exertion existence fear and trembling finite period firmament follows foreknowledge former free-agency given six days gnasah God's hath heaven heavenly Hebrew Hence human immutable incongruous infer instance intellectual creation intellectual world Jehovah lava light Lord mankind means of grace mercy modus operandi moral evil Mosaic account never object omnipotence omniscience operation orbs particle passage perfect Pharisee Plato plural prove reason respecting revealed saith Saviour scriptural SECTION self-existent Septuagint Sidon simply solar system spirit sublime Supralapsarians susceptible of acting term terrestrial days thence thereof thing created thou tion translation triune God universe unto verb verse word καὶ
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Page 51 - But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Page 196 - Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare if thou hast understanding.
Page 113 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon. they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 94 - And we indeed justly ; for we receive the due reward of our deeds : but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Page 104 - I HAVE loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us ? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: Yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, And laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Page 108 - But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth ; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
Page 95 - For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Page 110 - And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Page 104 - Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places ; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down ; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.
Page 99 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.