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Page 51
... it would be a good help towards loving their neighbours as themselves . These miscellaneous considerations are , perhaps , able to prove the odious nature and evil demerit of sin in general . But if it be urged , Ċ 2 51.
... it would be a good help towards loving their neighbours as themselves . These miscellaneous considerations are , perhaps , able to prove the odious nature and evil demerit of sin in general . But if it be urged , Ċ 2 51.
Page 54
... the most glorious angel in heaven . It is plain , God , by being the purest and most holy of all rational beings , is the fittest to judge of the evil of sin . Nothing is more reasonable than that all these considerations should 54.
... the most glorious angel in heaven . It is plain , God , by being the purest and most holy of all rational beings , is the fittest to judge of the evil of sin . Nothing is more reasonable than that all these considerations should 54.
Page 55
John Maclaurin. Nothing is more reasonable than that all these considerations should , on the one hand , make us be- lieve that sin deserves indeed what God threatens , because God is infinitely just , and holy ; and , on the other hand ...
John Maclaurin. Nothing is more reasonable than that all these considerations should , on the one hand , make us be- lieve that sin deserves indeed what God threatens , because God is infinitely just , and holy ; and , on the other hand ...
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... considerations , satisfy men as to human government , that true jus- tice and true goodness are so far from being incon- sistent , that they are inseparable ; and there is no reason why the same may not be acknowledged in the divine ...
... considerations , satisfy men as to human government , that true jus- tice and true goodness are so far from being incon- sistent , that they are inseparable ; and there is no reason why the same may not be acknowledged in the divine ...
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... consideration is , the heinous injury sin does to God . Though none of the actions of his creatures can either increase or impair his happiness , ( which is infinite , and conse- quently unalterable , ) yet inferiors may honour or ...
... consideration is , the heinous injury sin does to God . Though none of the actions of his creatures can either increase or impair his happiness , ( which is infinite , and conse- quently unalterable , ) yet inferiors may honour or ...
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Page 104 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of CHRIST : for it is the power of GOD unto salvation to every one that believeth ; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of GOD revealed from faith to faith : as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Page 428 - Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold ; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter : and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Page 156 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.
Page 172 - ... that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness...
Page 595 - For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 179 - And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD: my spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out oi the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 205 - But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned...
Page 145 - Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the vail, that is to say, his flesh...
Page 475 - Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Page 159 - Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently...