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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... scriptural basis . And , notwithstanding objec- tions made by adversaries of the Christian sys- tem , we have reason to consider the Word and the Holy Ghost to be of eternal duration , even on the authority of the first verse in the ...
... scriptural basis . And , notwithstanding objec- tions made by adversaries of the Christian sys- tem , we have reason to consider the Word and the Holy Ghost to be of eternal duration , even on the authority of the first verse in the ...
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... scriptural passages respecting the Word and the Paraclete , cannot fail to restrict that plurality to three persons . Hence the divine Trinity in Unity can be fully supported by the sacred scriptures . ( See Disser . parag . 12 , on the ...
... scriptural passages respecting the Word and the Paraclete , cannot fail to restrict that plurality to three persons . Hence the divine Trinity in Unity can be fully supported by the sacred scriptures . ( See Disser . parag . 12 , on the ...
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... Sufficient for our purpose having been ad- vanced , it would be needless to adduce a multi- tude of other scriptural passages to the same effect . OBSERVATIONS . Whoever may desire to be furnished with some ON FREE - AGENCY . 53.
... Sufficient for our purpose having been ad- vanced , it would be needless to adduce a multi- tude of other scriptural passages to the same effect . OBSERVATIONS . Whoever may desire to be furnished with some ON FREE - AGENCY . 53.
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... - bining then all these scriptural authorities under the solemn sanction of the Fountain - head itself of our religion , who can presume to say that di- vine election , resulting from the full and perfect discernment 98 ON FREE - AGENCY .
... - bining then all these scriptural authorities under the solemn sanction of the Fountain - head itself of our religion , who can presume to say that di- vine election , resulting from the full and perfect discernment 98 ON FREE - AGENCY .
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... scriptural elucidation , till there would not be one genuine prop left to support the entire structure of ab- solute decrees . For instance , let us consider how we may re- solve a passage in the 9th chapter of the epistle to the Romans ...
... scriptural elucidation , till there would not be one genuine prop left to support the entire structure of ab- solute decrees . For instance , let us consider how we may re- solve a passage in the 9th chapter of the epistle to the Romans ...
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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.