A Review of Doct. Emmons's Theory of God's Agency on Mankind: Addressed to the Congregational Clergy of New England |
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... expressed in the following proposition : GOD CREATES ALL THE ACTS OF MEN . The mode of His agency is that of creat- ing , and it extends to all their actions . The manner in which the Doctor con- templates its mode and extent , the use ...
... expressed in the following proposition : GOD CREATES ALL THE ACTS OF MEN . The mode of His agency is that of creat- ing , and it extends to all their actions . The manner in which the Doctor con- templates its mode and extent , the use ...
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... expressed in the last part of that argument ; for if , as he assumes in the first part , the same kind and degree of divine agency must necessarily be exerted on men in their sinful as in their holy actions ; the ground of that ne ...
... expressed in the last part of that argument ; for if , as he assumes in the first part , the same kind and degree of divine agency must necessarily be exerted on men in their sinful as in their holy actions ; the ground of that ne ...
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... of the Spirit's agency in pro- ducing those effects . The language is figurative , and very dissimilar . The most common forms of expression employed to denote them , are , to be born again ; to be renewed in the spirit of the mind ; to ...
... of the Spirit's agency in pro- ducing those effects . The language is figurative , and very dissimilar . The most common forms of expression employed to denote them , are , to be born again ; to be renewed in the spirit of the mind ; to ...
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... expression are derived from the modes in which effects are produced in the material world ; and designate modes of operation universally and absolutely different from each other . To be born is a totally different operation from that of ...
... expression are derived from the modes in which effects are produced in the material world ; and designate modes of operation universally and absolutely different from each other . To be born is a totally different operation from that of ...
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... ex- ercise perfect benevolence towards God , and to pursue a course of conduct which shall be a proper expression of that be- nevolence , it is obvious that the service it requires 23 * 269 Since, then, God has the right of de- ...
... ex- ercise perfect benevolence towards God , and to pursue a course of conduct which shall be a proper expression of that be- nevolence , it is obvious that the service it requires 23 * 269 Since, then, God has the right of de- ...
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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.