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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... light , existence herself may lose her most attractive smiles . Though the direst spirit of the storm may veil the earth for a time in the darkness of his course , be not im- patient or desponding , but rest well assured that ...
... light , existence herself may lose her most attractive smiles . Though the direst spirit of the storm may veil the earth for a time in the darkness of his course , be not im- patient or desponding , but rest well assured that ...
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... happy standard of intellectual liberty in the regions of eternal light and truth : first , however , referring , to the following compen- dium . A TREATISE ON FREE - AGENCY . DEFINITION I. Of xvi ADDRESS TO THE READER .
... happy standard of intellectual liberty in the regions of eternal light and truth : first , however , referring , to the following compen- dium . A TREATISE ON FREE - AGENCY . DEFINITION I. Of xvi ADDRESS TO THE READER .
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... light be thrown , through the most confined vista , on any subject hitherto involved in obscurity , our exertions will not be totally useless or uncalled for ; " to justify the ways of God to man , " being the greatest incentive to the ...
... light be thrown , through the most confined vista , on any subject hitherto involved in obscurity , our exertions will not be totally useless or uncalled for ; " to justify the ways of God to man , " being the greatest incentive to the ...
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... light as a remote cause of what they could not immediately produce . This leads us , there- fore , into a further consideration of the subject , before we can arrive at the desired conclusion , or final object of our search . And , as ...
... light as a remote cause of what they could not immediately produce . This leads us , there- fore , into a further consideration of the subject , before we can arrive at the desired conclusion , or final object of our search . And , as ...
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... light from what it was as freely and originally rendered susceptible of acting in conformity to the wisdom that is perfect . And the effect of that violation , respecting either human or angelic apostacy , could not possibly have ...
... light from what it was as freely and originally rendered susceptible of acting in conformity to the wisdom that is perfect . And the effect of that violation , respecting either human or angelic apostacy , could not possibly have ...
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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.