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... creating . " Since all men are dependent agents , all their motions , exercises , or actions must originate from a ... created , as well as * The Doctor's volumes are not numbered ; for convenience , we shall designate that published ...
... creating . " Since all men are dependent agents , all their motions , exercises , or actions must originate from a ... created , as well as * The Doctor's volumes are not numbered ; for convenience , we shall designate that published ...
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... created ; or that their free and voluntary exercises are the production of divine power . " Vol . i . p . 231 . " It is agreeable to the nature of virtue or true holiness to be created . " p . 279 . " Holiness is something which has a ...
... created ; or that their free and voluntary exercises are the production of divine power . " Vol . i . p . 231 . " It is agreeable to the nature of virtue or true holiness to be created . " p . 279 . " Holiness is something which has a ...
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... is seen with suffi- cient clearness , that he regards the mode of the divine agency as that of creating . In the passages from vol . i . pp . 231 , 279 , 280 , and 281 , he represents the agency of God , in regard to the holy acts of 18.
... is seen with suffi- cient clearness , that he regards the mode of the divine agency as that of creating . In the passages from vol . i . pp . 231 , 279 , 280 , and 281 , he represents the agency of God , in regard to the holy acts of 18.
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... creating agency ; and in the passage from vol . ii . p . 40 , he represents precisely the same kind and degree of divine agen- cy as necessary to men in doing evil , as in doing good ; and God's agency as con- cerned in precisely the ...
... creating agency ; and in the passage from vol . ii . p . 40 , he represents precisely the same kind and degree of divine agen- cy as necessary to men in doing evil , as in doing good ; and God's agency as con- cerned in precisely the ...
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... creating . He cannot consistently employ it to denote any other mode , nor mean by it any thing less , than that God creates the acts of men . He cannot mean by it , that God merely brings men into a state , in which they are disposed ...
... creating . He cannot consistently employ it to denote any other mode , nor mean by it any thing less , than that God creates the acts of men . He cannot mean by it , that God merely brings men into a state , in which they are disposed ...
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Page 151 - Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men : 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 fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 149 - God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands ; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things...
Page 151 - Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 154 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 149 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 191 - Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment...
Page 151 - For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Page 171 - Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page vi - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 143 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.