Sermons, on a Number of Connected Subjects: In which an Attempt is Made to Explain the Leading Principles of Revealed Religion; to Show Their Consistency, Reasonableness and Importance; and to Guard Them Against Dangerous Misconstructions and False Inferences, and Against the Specious Objections of UnbelieversOliver D. Cooke; Lincoln and Gleason, printers, 1803 - 436 pages |
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Page 37
... answer ; that to be in the serious use of all proper means to come to the knowledge of the truth , is one thing necessary . This is the counsel of Solomon : " Take fast hold of instruction ; let her not go : keep her ; for she is thy ...
... answer ; that to be in the serious use of all proper means to come to the knowledge of the truth , is one thing necessary . This is the counsel of Solomon : " Take fast hold of instruction ; let her not go : keep her ; for she is thy ...
Page 79
... for them first ; and to bestow them only in answer to prayer . This is the case with respect to the pardon of transgressors , and giving 1 them a covenant title to eternal life . And this Ser . V. ] The Immutability of God . 79.
... for them first ; and to bestow them only in answer to prayer . This is the case with respect to the pardon of transgressors , and giving 1 them a covenant title to eternal life . And this Ser . V. ] The Immutability of God . 79.
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... answer . Could it be seen how evils might be accounted for , without supposing them any part of the creation of God ; and how God might have an absolute do- minion over all events , without being the immediate cause of bad things ; no ...
... answer . Could it be seen how evils might be accounted for , without supposing them any part of the creation of God ; and how God might have an absolute do- minion over all events , without being the immediate cause of bad things ; no ...
Page 111
... answer ; We ought not to wish for the release and happiness of those abandoned out - casts , when we believe that God , for good reasons , hath determined the contrary . Never- theless , we ought to be far from feeling any malevo- lence ...
... answer ; We ought not to wish for the release and happiness of those abandoned out - casts , when we believe that God , for good reasons , hath determined the contrary . Never- theless , we ought to be far from feeling any malevo- lence ...
Page 130
... answer , in not loving God and our neighbor : in not being benevolent . The difference between a truly benevolent man , and one totally selfish , I con- ceive , is simply this : the former is kindly affection- ed towards all ; the ...
... answer , in not loving God and our neighbor : in not being benevolent . The difference between a truly benevolent man , and one totally selfish , I con- ceive , is simply this : the former is kindly affection- ed towards all ; the ...
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Page 196 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 398 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Page 116 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil?
Page 394 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us: and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are...
Page 332 - Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole ; be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
Page 55 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. " Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 362 - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me : And I give unto them eternal life ; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My father which gave them me is greater than all ; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
Page 62 - See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 405 - Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Page 76 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.