The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote ...J. Chalmers, 1751 - 448 pages |
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... say what is fit to perfwade , is the utmost thou canft do : and when thou haft done all thou canft do , there will remain that which must be left to God . 2. Since all things that are necessary to falvation are delivered plainly in the ...
... say what is fit to perfwade , is the utmost thou canft do : and when thou haft done all thou canft do , there will remain that which must be left to God . 2. Since all things that are necessary to falvation are delivered plainly in the ...
Page 32
... say not the fame , may think the fame as to God . Our apprehenfions are unavoid- ably short , and unworthy in respect of God : yet God doth not reject our devotion . God receives of all forts and fizes ; rejects none for weakness of ...
... say not the fame , may think the fame as to God . Our apprehenfions are unavoid- ably short , and unworthy in respect of God : yet God doth not reject our devotion . God receives of all forts and fizes ; rejects none for weakness of ...
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... say the scripture is not the adequate rule of faith ; and that it is to be fupplied by the churches traditions , and by the conftitutions of their infallible vifible judge : though , who hath the pow- er is not abfolutely agreed among ...
... say the scripture is not the adequate rule of faith ; and that it is to be fupplied by the churches traditions , and by the conftitutions of their infallible vifible judge : though , who hath the pow- er is not abfolutely agreed among ...
Page 101
... says that he came to do the will of his heavenly father ; and the prophecy is , the pleafure of the Lord fhall profper in his hands , If . liii . 10. and nothing is more declared by our Saviour , upon all occafions , than that he was ...
... says that he came to do the will of his heavenly father ; and the prophecy is , the pleafure of the Lord fhall profper in his hands , If . liii . 10. and nothing is more declared by our Saviour , upon all occafions , than that he was ...
Page 126
... says , a man that is in reconciliation with God ; let all the world break upon him , put him into a neceffity to part with his God , or to part with his foul , invent all varieties , all forts of exquifite tor- tures ; when they fo do ...
... says , a man that is in reconciliation with God ; let all the world break upon him , put him into a neceffity to part with his God , or to part with his foul , invent all varieties , all forts of exquifite tor- tures ; when they fo do ...
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Page 157 - But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
Page 21 - Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Page 41 - He breathed into him the breath of life, and he became a living soul...
Page 330 - Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not to thine own understanding ; in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Page 96 - Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began...
Page 41 - For, we know that if our earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diflblved, we have a building of GOD, an houfe not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 330 - He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Page 367 - Chrift, and be found in him; not having mine own righteoufnefs, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Chrift, the righteoufnefs which is of God by faith
Page 161 - Me through their word ; that they all may be one ; as Thou, FATHER, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they alfo may be one in Us : that the world may believe that Thou haft fent Me.
Page 139 - God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God : but made himfelf of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a fervant, and was made in the likenefs of men...