A Treatise on Free Agency: Maintaining that the Immutability of the Divine Nature is Perfectly Compatible with the Moral Freedom of the Intellectual World; Also, A Dissertation on the Mosaic Account of the Creation; Comprising Its Most Remarkable Internal Evidences Respecting the Antiquity of the Earth, &c |
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Page vii
... LORD MARQUESS , IN presuming to dedicate this little work to your Lordship , I do so with sentiments of no ordinary description . Among many inducements , however , to entertain my feel- ings in silence , I am not ignorant of your ...
... LORD MARQUESS , IN presuming to dedicate this little work to your Lordship , I do so with sentiments of no ordinary description . Among many inducements , however , to entertain my feel- ings in silence , I am not ignorant of your ...
Page ix
... Lord Marquess , With unfeigned and profound respect , Your Lordship's most obedient , faithful , and devoted Servant , EDWARD DOWLING . Phibsboro ' , near Dublin , Jan. 31 , 1829 . ADDRESS TO THE READER . In the present undertaking it ...
... Lord Marquess , With unfeigned and profound respect , Your Lordship's most obedient , faithful , and devoted Servant , EDWARD DOWLING . Phibsboro ' , near Dublin , Jan. 31 , 1829 . ADDRESS TO THE READER . In the present undertaking it ...
Page xiv
... Lord of hosts , it is evident , that the frequency of human apostacy would carry its enormous evils to the very verge of general desolation . At the same time , then , that we cannot but ad- mit the manifest and flagrant abuses of free ...
... Lord of hosts , it is evident , that the frequency of human apostacy would carry its enormous evils to the very verge of general desolation . At the same time , then , that we cannot but ad- mit the manifest and flagrant abuses of free ...
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... , we may here select a few remarkable passages to that effect . The martyr Stephen , ( see Acts vii . 59 , ) as he was about to expire , said , " Lord Jesus , receive my spirit . " Now , if he were merely 50 ON FREE - AGENCY .
... , we may here select a few remarkable passages to that effect . The martyr Stephen , ( see Acts vii . 59 , ) as he was about to expire , said , " Lord Jesus , receive my spirit . " Now , if he were merely 50 ON FREE - AGENCY .
Page 51
... Lord and Master ; he would simply have said , receive me to thyself . His calling on Christ , then , to receive his spirit , manifestly implied his desire that , although his body would be consigned to the grave , ( perhaps till the ...
... Lord and Master ; he would simply have said , receive me to thyself . His calling on Christ , then , to receive his spirit , manifestly implied his desire that , although his body would be consigned to the grave , ( perhaps till the ...
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Page 51 - But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Page 196 - Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare if thou hast understanding.
Page 113 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon. they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 94 - And we indeed justly ; for we receive the due reward of our deeds : but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Page 104 - I HAVE loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us ? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: Yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, And laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Page 108 - But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth ; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
Page 95 - For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Page 110 - And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Page 104 - Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places ; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down ; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.
Page 99 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.