 | George Tomline - Bible - 1818 - 608 pages
...learning and the liberal arts, was " wholly given to idolatry (I) ;" and he told the Athenians, that they ought not " to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven byart and man's device (m)." In his Epistle to the Romans he condemns those who " changed the glory... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1818 - 624 pages
...heaven, to crouch unto fuch mean rexvii. prefentations ! It is St. Paul's difcourfe; Being, faith he, the offspring of God, we ought not to think, that the Godhead is like unto gold, orjilver, orjlone, graven by art and man's device. How injurious alfo to that moft excellent nature... | |
 | Samuel Chapman Loveland - Congregational churches - 1818 - 250 pages
...striking. St. Paul's words on this subject are very express ; "Forasmuch then as we are the oilspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto geld or silver; or stone graven by art or man's device." Does not the force of this passage plainly... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 440 pages
...exhortation to discountenance such unworthy practices as dishonour our Maker : Acts, xvii. 29, he saith, Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we...the Godhead is like unto gold or silver, or stone engraven by art and mans device. And in Rom. i. 22, 23, in numbering and particularizing the sins of... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1819 - 636 pages
...he saw that city ic, 24 to fun of idols; he upon that charges them for thinking that the Godhead was like unto gold or silver, or stone graven by art or man's device : he argues from the majesty of God, who made the world and all things therein, and was the Lord of... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 302 pages
...and have our being ; as certain also of your poets have said, For we are also the offspring of God. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we...is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." Here the apostle, iu order to confute the subtle arguments of the Epicurians... | |
 | Arminianism - 1822 - 872 pages
...GOD. Whom, therefore, ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you, — GOD, that made the world. — Forasmuch, then, as we are the offspring of GOD, we...is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." Admitting the word which is rendered " too superstitious " to have a good sense,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 528 pages
...yet an image it is, and the best that is upon the earth. But now from hence the apostle argues", " Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we...godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone graven by art and man's device :" If the invisible, inexpressible part of man is the image of God, and we are... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1822 - 494 pages
...GOD. Whom, therefore, ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you, — God that made the world. — Forasmuch, then, as we are the offspring of God, we...think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, 01 stone, graven by art or man's device." Admitting the word which is rendered " too superstitious,"... | |
 | Arminianism - 1821 - 992 pages
...above, cannot consist of component parts; because he is Immaterial and Immortal. Hence it is written, " We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device," Acts xvii. 29. And though in the Scripture, mention is made of GOD'S eyes, his... | |
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Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 
