The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1809 - Congregational churches |
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... speak more strictly according to truth , we may suppose , that a disposition in God , as an original property of his nature , to an emanation of his own infinite fulness , was what excited him to create the world ; and so that the ...
... speak more strictly according to truth , we may suppose , that a disposition in God , as an original property of his nature , to an emanation of his own infinite fulness , was what excited him to create the world ; and so that the ...
Page 61
... speak , on all occa- sions , as though God made himself his end in all his works ; and as though the same being , who is the first cause of all things , were the supreme and last end of all things . Thus in Isa . xliv . 6. " Thus saith ...
... speak , on all occa- sions , as though God made himself his end in all his works ; and as though the same being , who is the first cause of all things , were the supreme and last end of all things . Thus in Isa . xliv . 6. " Thus saith ...
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... speak of the church as the glory of Christ . Now when God speaks of himself , as seeking a peculiar and holy people for himself , to be for his glory and honor , as a man that seeks an ornament and badge of honor for his glory , it is ...
... speak of the church as the glory of Christ . Now when God speaks of himself , as seeking a peculiar and holy people for himself , to be for his glory and honor , as a man that seeks an ornament and badge of honor for his glory , it is ...
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... speaks from time to time , of God's glo- ry , as though it were his ultimate end of the goodness of the moral part ... speak , let him speak as the oracles of God . If any man minister , let him do it as of the ability which God giv- eth ...
... speaks from time to time , of God's glo- ry , as though it were his ultimate end of the goodness of the moral part ... speak , let him speak as the oracles of God . If any man minister , let him do it as of the ability which God giv- eth ...
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... speaks of shewing mercy , and exercising goodness , and promoting his people's happi- ness for his name's sake , we cannot understand it as of a mere- ly subordinate end . How absurd would it be to say , that he promotes their happiness ...
... speaks of shewing mercy , and exercising goodness , and promoting his people's happi- ness for his name's sake , we cannot understand it as of a mere- ly subordinate end . How absurd would it be to say , that he promotes their happiness ...
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