A Comprehensive View of the Leading and Most Important Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion:: Digested in Such Order as to Present to the Pious and Reflecting Mind, a Basis for the Superstructure of the Entire System of the Doctrines of the Gospel |
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... virtue in faith it confers a right to the blessings of the covenant , 356 . OF THE COVENANT OF GRACE : Three preliminary questions , 361. the necessity of atonement , 362. the jus- tice and utility of vicarious satisfaction , 365 ...
... virtue in faith it confers a right to the blessings of the covenant , 356 . OF THE COVENANT OF GRACE : Three preliminary questions , 361. the necessity of atonement , 362. the jus- tice and utility of vicarious satisfaction , 365 ...
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... virtue and piety . The second , or popular mode of reasoning , is infinitely more simple and obvious . And consists of a species of ar- gument which naturally offers itself to every man , as soon as he opens his eyes with intelligence ...
... virtue and piety . The second , or popular mode of reasoning , is infinitely more simple and obvious . And consists of a species of ar- gument which naturally offers itself to every man , as soon as he opens his eyes with intelligence ...
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... virtue , while , to use an expression of Male- branche , " it sees all things in God , and God in all things . " This argument we may see admirably illustrated by the famous Genevan philosopher Bonnet , and by those very res- pectable ...
... virtue , while , to use an expression of Male- branche , " it sees all things in God , and God in all things . " This argument we may see admirably illustrated by the famous Genevan philosopher Bonnet , and by those very res- pectable ...
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... virtues which are as- sisted by the stability of nature . For a clear and lumin- ous illustration of the utility of general laws , and for a judi- cious explanation , and justification of the apparent and par- tial ills which result ...
... virtues which are as- sisted by the stability of nature . For a clear and lumin- ous illustration of the utility of general laws , and for a judi- cious explanation , and justification of the apparent and par- tial ills which result ...
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... in order to employ their activity , and ex- ercise their virtues , we have no grounds on which we can form a rational judgment . Even conjecture , therefore , ought to be silent concerning it , lest we should unawares 14.
... in order to employ their activity , and ex- ercise their virtues , we have no grounds on which we can form a rational judgment . Even conjecture , therefore , ought to be silent concerning it , lest we should unawares 14.
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Page 152 - But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Page 129 - And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul...
Page 228 - And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Page 152 - Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Page 382 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Page 227 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 230 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Page 137 - But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Page 425 - Christ; according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love ; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved...
Page 128 - The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand, a nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young.