The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall ...: With a Life of the Author, and a Collection of His Letters, Volume 4J.H. Parker, 1844 |
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... divine out of the pulpit declaim against school divinity to his equally ignorant auditors . It is but as the fox in the fable , who having lost his own tail by a mischance , would have persuaded all his fellows to cut off theirs and ...
... divine out of the pulpit declaim against school divinity to his equally ignorant auditors . It is but as the fox in the fable , who having lost his own tail by a mischance , would have persuaded all his fellows to cut off theirs and ...
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... Divine essence , which is one . But the distinction is in order to the objects or things willed . Nor , lastly , do we make this permission to be a naked or a mere permission . God causeth all good , permitteth all evil , disposeth all ...
... Divine essence , which is one . But the distinction is in order to the objects or things willed . Nor , lastly , do we make this permission to be a naked or a mere permission . God causeth all good , permitteth all evil , disposeth all ...
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... Divine justice is not measured by omnipotence , or by " irresistible power , " but by God's will . God can do many things according to His absolute power which He doth not ; He " could raise [ Matt . iii . 9. ] up children to Abraham of ...
... Divine justice is not measured by omnipotence , or by " irresistible power , " but by God's will . God can do many things according to His absolute power which He doth not ; He " could raise [ Matt . iii . 9. ] up children to Abraham of ...
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... Divine goodness , and all created rectitude is but a par- ticipation of Divine rectitude ; so all laws are but participa- tions of the eternal law , from whence they derive their power . The rule of justice then is the same both in God ...
... Divine goodness , and all created rectitude is but a par- ticipation of Divine rectitude ; so all laws are but participa- tions of the eternal law , from whence they derive their power . The rule of justice then is the same both in God ...
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... Divine wisdom , by which all creatures are directed to that end which is convenient for theme ; that is not , to necessitate them to eternal flames : then , the law parti- cipated ; which is the ordination of right reason , instituted ...
... Divine wisdom , by which all creatures are directed to that end which is convenient for theme ; that is not , to necessitate them to eternal flames : then , the law parti- cipated ; which is the ordination of right reason , instituted ...
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absolute actions Animadv Animadversions answer answereth antece antecedent appetite argument Aristot BRAMHALL CASTIGATIONS choose Christian command concurrence confess consequence contingent contradiction contrary creatures decrees Defence deliberation deny determined Disc DISCOURSE disjunctive proposition distinction Divine doctrine dominion doth effect election Epictetus error eternity evil extrinsecal causes faculty fault fear forbear Fount free agent freely God's grace hath Hobbes Holy Ibid impediments impossible JOHN BRAMHALL judge judgment justice Lastly Leviathan maketh man's means ment moral motion natural neces necessarily necessary cause necessitated never NUMBER object opinion otherwise Ovid passion philosophers prescience produce proposition prove punishment question reader reason saith sary Scripture Secondly Secund sense shew soul spontaneous Stoics sufficient supposition T. H. Numb telleth terms of art things Thirdly thou tion true liberty truth understanding unjust unto voluntary whatsoever wherein whereof words καὶ
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Page 221 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 312 - That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee : Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right...
Page 71 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction ; and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory...
Page 240 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 65 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Page 566 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman ; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman ; but the woman for the man.
Page 282 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 240 - A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Page 350 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 77 - But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.