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... muft imply an earnest endeavour to find out for ourselves , and to understand the truths contained in the scriptures ; and what faculty can we employ for this purpose , but that which is commonly called reafon , whereby we are capable ...
... muft imply an earnest endeavour to find out for ourselves , and to understand the truths contained in the scriptures ; and what faculty can we employ for this purpose , but that which is commonly called reafon , whereby we are capable ...
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... muft ftill fay with the apoftle , What have we that we have not received ? and how then can we glory , as if we had not received it ? Every good and every perfect gift comes from God ; and , knowing this , the more we receive of his ...
... muft ftill fay with the apoftle , What have we that we have not received ? and how then can we glory , as if we had not received it ? Every good and every perfect gift comes from God ; and , knowing this , the more we receive of his ...
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... muft look up to him as the author of their being , fince it was , undoubtedly , in his power to give , or to withhold it , at his pleafure ; and , furely , a good and merciful God would have put a stop to the pro- pagation of fuch a ...
... muft look up to him as the author of their being , fince it was , undoubtedly , in his power to give , or to withhold it , at his pleafure ; and , furely , a good and merciful God would have put a stop to the pro- pagation of fuch a ...
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... muft have known that that confequence was im- poffible ? This doctrine , of abfolute election and reprobation , is certainly a doctrine of licentiousness , and not a doctrine according to godliness ; and let divines employ all the ...
... muft have known that that confequence was im- poffible ? This doctrine , of abfolute election and reprobation , is certainly a doctrine of licentiousness , and not a doctrine according to godliness ; and let divines employ all the ...
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... muft mean the fame kind of being with yourselves . I fay , moreover , with the author of the epifle to the Hebrews , that it became him by whom are all things , and for whom are all things , to make this great captain of our falvation ...
... muft mean the fame kind of being with yourselves . I fay , moreover , with the author of the epifle to the Hebrews , that it became him by whom are all things , and for whom are all things , to make this great captain of our falvation ...
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Page 159 - Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay; but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Page 145 - I pray for them ; I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me ; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine ; and I am glorified in them.
Page 121 - That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Page 189 - But of that day and that hour, knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Page 142 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 92 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 91 - It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Page 145 - Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Page 190 - For he hath put all things under his feet! "But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him.
Page 98 - Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.