Sermons, on a Number of Connected Subjects: In which an Attempt is Made to Explain the Leading Principles of Revealed Religion; to Show Their Consistency, Reasonableness and Importance; and to Guard Them Against Dangerous Misconstructions and False Inferences, and Against the Specious Objections of Unbelievers |
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... sense excuses no man , in any case . Still , however , their mouths are not stopped . Still they do not feel themselves guilty before God . Grant- ing , say they , that all our inability does lie in the bad- ness of our heart ; yet ...
... sense excuses no man , in any case . Still , however , their mouths are not stopped . Still they do not feel themselves guilty before God . Grant- ing , say they , that all our inability does lie in the bad- ness of our heart ; yet ...
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... sense , or certainly not with more universality than this , we must understand our Saviour , when he says to his disciples , Matt . x . 22 , " Ye shall be hated of all men for my name sake . " And the evangelist , when he relates what ...
... sense , or certainly not with more universality than this , we must understand our Saviour , when he says to his disciples , Matt . x . 22 , " Ye shall be hated of all men for my name sake . " And the evangelist , when he relates what ...
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... sense , if they will . But , 3. There is yet another sense which the words of our text may well admit , without implying the doc- trine of universal salvation . The apostle may be un- derstood to speak of God's preceptive will to us ...
... sense , if they will . But , 3. There is yet another sense which the words of our text may well admit , without implying the doc- trine of universal salvation . The apostle may be un- derstood to speak of God's preceptive will to us ...
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... sense , must be admitted . But that this was only because he saw it necessary for the greatest general good , must be believed , if we believe his word . And in this way , all that is seen or said , of the wrath and vengeance of God ...
... sense , must be admitted . But that this was only because he saw it necessary for the greatest general good , must be believed , if we believe his word . And in this way , all that is seen or said , of the wrath and vengeance of God ...
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... , and justice should be done ; but when there is no need of it , what glory can there be in speaking the one , or in doing the other ? Be- nevolence , according to common sense , is the soul 48 [ Ser . III . Divine Goodness .
... , and justice should be done ; but when there is no need of it , what glory can there be in speaking the one , or in doing the other ? Be- nevolence , according to common sense , is the soul 48 [ Ser . III . Divine Goodness .
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Page 302 - The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
Page 390 - When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open unto us;' and he shall answer and say unto you, 'I know ye not whence ye are.
Page 394 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding — if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures, — then shall thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God..
Page 401 - Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Page 53 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 192 - I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 74 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 302 - And his name, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know ; yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. And now, brethren, I wot, that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
Page 114 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil?
Page 301 - And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; , 3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.