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... punishment . Prosperous sinners scarce see the harm of sin at all ; others , while they feel the harm of it , redounding to themselves , lay the blame of it on something else . It were less unac- countable if men only justified or ...
... punishment . Prosperous sinners scarce see the harm of sin at all ; others , while they feel the harm of it , redounding to themselves , lay the blame of it on something else . It were less unac- countable if men only justified or ...
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... punish the evil actions of others ; thus the Israelites are said to have tempted him in the wilderness : In such cases , though that by which men tempt , or provoke God , be evil , that which he is provoked to do , is always just and ...
... punish the evil actions of others ; thus the Israelites are said to have tempted him in the wilderness : In such cases , though that by which men tempt , or provoke God , be evil , that which he is provoked to do , is always just and ...
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... punishments ! God is infinitely free from this ; because , instead of proposing any motives to sin , he proposes the great- est motives possible against it . This is evident from his promises and threatenings of eternal rewards and ...
... punishments ! God is infinitely free from this ; because , instead of proposing any motives to sin , he proposes the great- est motives possible against it . This is evident from his promises and threatenings of eternal rewards and ...
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... punishment , unless he saw it , that person seeks such a way of being satisfied about it , as the nature of the thing does not admit : For , though a man saw the place of punishment with his eyes , he could not see that it is eternal ...
... punishment , unless he saw it , that person seeks such a way of being satisfied about it , as the nature of the thing does not admit : For , though a man saw the place of punishment with his eyes , he could not see that it is eternal ...
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... punishing itself . Pride makes every affront almost a torment ; envy hinders a man from relishing his own enjoyment , till he see his neighbour's misery ; impiety makes those thoughts and discourses of God ( which otherwise would be ...
... punishing itself . Pride makes every affront almost a torment ; envy hinders a man from relishing his own enjoyment , till he see his neighbour's misery ; impiety makes those thoughts and discourses of God ( which otherwise would be ...
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Page 62 - 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 109 - 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 122 - ... filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding ; 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 long-suffering with joyfulness...
Page 236 - 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 111 - 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...
Page 122 - The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead...
Page 107 - Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
Page 187 - The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream : and he that hath my word let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat ? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as a fire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words, every one from his neighbour.
Page 153 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Page 240 - But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them