The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1809 |
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... holy love and praise of his saints , as the image and communication of his own holiness , it is not properly any pleasure distinct from the pleasure he has in himself ; but is truly an instance of it . And with respect to God's being ...
... holy love and praise of his saints , as the image and communication of his own holiness , it is not properly any pleasure distinct from the pleasure he has in himself ; but is truly an instance of it . And with respect to God's being ...
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... holy Scriptures cancerning God's last End in the Creation of the World . 2 r SECTION I. The scriptures represent · God as making himself his own last end in the creation of the world . IT is manifest , that the scriptures speak , on all ...
... holy Scriptures cancerning God's last End in the Creation of the World . 2 r SECTION I. The scriptures represent · God as making himself his own last end in the creation of the world . IT is manifest , that the scriptures speak , on all ...
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... holy Scrip- tures . WE have seen that the scriptures speak of the creation of the world as being for God , as its end . What remains therefore to be inquired into , is , which way do the scriptures represent God as making himself his ...
... holy Scrip- tures . WE have seen that the scriptures speak of the creation of the world as being for God , as its end . What remains therefore to be inquired into , is , which way do the scriptures represent God as making himself his ...
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... holy scripture from time to time to be spoken of as the main end of the goodness of the good part of the moral world , so that the respect and relation their virtue or goodness has to that end , is what chiefly makes it valuable and ...
... holy scripture from time to time to be spoken of as the main end of the goodness of the good part of the moral world , so that the respect and relation their virtue or goodness has to that end , is what chiefly makes it valuable and ...
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... holy con- versation , or instances of their good and approved behav- ior ; that we must suppose , was what they ought to seek as their last end ; and consequently by the preceding position was the same with God's last end in the ...
... holy con- versation , or instances of their good and approved behav- ior ; that we must suppose , was what they ought to seek as their last end ; and consequently by the preceding position was the same with God's last end in the ...
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Page 164 - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page 191 - Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Page 306 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 192 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 139 - For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse : for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Page 69 - To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 501 - I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 495 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Page 72 - Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power ; that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 72 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.