The Works of President Edwards, Volume 7James Black & Son, 1817 - Congregational churches |
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... Lord's supper ; and , if they are such as were not baptized in infancy , ought to be admitted to baptism . Adult persons having those qualifications that oblige others to receive them as the proper immediate subjects of the Christian ...
... Lord's supper ; and , if they are such as were not baptized in infancy , ought to be admitted to baptism . Adult persons having those qualifications that oblige others to receive them as the proper immediate subjects of the Christian ...
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... Lord's supper , in some of our churches , who yet go upon that principle , that persons need not esteem themselves truly gracious in order to a coming conscientiously and properly to the Lord's supper ; I say , it is not determined but ...
... Lord's supper , in some of our churches , who yet go upon that principle , that persons need not esteem themselves truly gracious in order to a coming conscientiously and properly to the Lord's supper ; I say , it is not determined but ...
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... Lord's supper to be properly a converting ordi- nance , was very full in it . In his Appeal to the Learned , in the title - page , and through the treatise , he supposes that all who come to the Lord's supper , must be visible saints ...
... Lord's supper to be properly a converting ordi- nance , was very full in it . In his Appeal to the Learned , in the title - page , and through the treatise , he supposes that all who come to the Lord's supper , must be visible saints ...
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... Lord's supper . So that according to him , it is not a visibility of moral sincerity only , but a visibility of circumcision of heart , or saving con- version , that is a necessary requisite to a person's coming to the Lord's table ...
... Lord's supper . So that according to him , it is not a visibility of moral sincerity only , but a visibility of circumcision of heart , or saving con- version , that is a necessary requisite to a person's coming to the Lord's table ...
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... Lord's supper ; and therefore it is necessary that we should have a charitable hope , that those have such a belief whom we admit ; though it be not necessary that we should know it , it being what none can know of another . But as to ...
... Lord's supper ; and therefore it is necessary that we should have a charitable hope , that those have such a belief whom we admit ; though it be not necessary that we should know it , it being what none can know of another . But as to ...
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Page 31 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Page 66 - Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
Page 405 - Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded...
Page 488 - And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Page 475 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 498 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 29 - Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Page 40 - The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach ; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and with, the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Page 31 - And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie ; but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Page 366 - Spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.