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... creation . The angels , that first inhabited this region where thou art to bring forth a new order of beings , were great and powerful spirits , highly endowed with the riches and powers of their creator . Whilst they stood ( as the ...
... creation . The angels , that first inhabited this region where thou art to bring forth a new order of beings , were great and powerful spirits , highly endowed with the riches and powers of their creator . Whilst they stood ( as the ...
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... creating fiat stopped the workings of these rebellious spirits , by dividing the ruins of their wasted kingdom , into an earth , a sun , stars , and separated elements . Had not this revolt of angels brought forth that disordered chaos ...
... creating fiat stopped the workings of these rebellious spirits , by dividing the ruins of their wasted kingdom , into an earth , a sun , stars , and separated elements . Had not this revolt of angels brought forth that disordered chaos ...
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... creating fiat spoke to these new rang- ed stars , and elements , and bid life awaken in them all according to its kind , they all obeyed my word , and every property of nature strove to bring forth , after the kind and manner as it had ...
... creating fiat spoke to these new rang- ed stars , and elements , and bid life awaken in them all according to its kind , they all obeyed my word , and every property of nature strove to bring forth , after the kind and manner as it had ...
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... created him . Adam had no more hurt , no more evil done to him , at his fall , than the very nature of his own action brought along with it upon himself . He lusted to have the sensibility of that good and evil which the beasts of this ...
... created him . Adam had no more hurt , no more evil done to him , at his fall , than the very nature of his own action brought along with it upon himself . He lusted to have the sensibility of that good and evil which the beasts of this ...
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... creation , as that a wrath in God ever punished any part of it . Nature and creature is the only source from whence , and the seat in which , wrath , pain , and vexation can dwell . Nor can they ever break forth either in nature , or ...
... creation , as that a wrath in God ever punished any part of it . Nature and creature is the only source from whence , and the seat in which , wrath , pain , and vexation can dwell . Nor can they ever break forth either in nature , or ...
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Page 251 - And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
Page 252 - the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, with all thy Soul, with ' all thy Mind, and with all thy Strength ; and thy Neighbour
Page 175 - If any man hath this world's goods, and seeth his brother hath need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion to him, how dwelleth the love of God in him...
Page 72 - Except a man hateth his father and mother, yea, and his own life, he cannot be My disciple, it is because our best tempers are yet carnal and full of the imperfections of our fallen nature. The doctrine is just and good ; not as if father and mother were to be hated ; but that love which an unregenerate person, or natural man...
Page 51 - Him abroad with thine outward eyes; thou seekest for Him in books, in controversies, in the church, and outward exercises, but there thou wilt not find Him till thou hast first found Him in thy heart. Seek for Him in thy heart, and thou wilt never seek in vain; for there He dwelleth, there is the seat of His Light and Holy Spirit.
Page 103 - Life, pretending to do wonders under extraordinary calls from God ? It is this : they have turned to God without turning from themselves ; would be alive in God before they were dead to their own nature ; a thing as impossible in itself as for a grain of wheat to be alive before it dies.
Page 83 - There is but one salvation for all mankind, and that is the life of God in the soul. God has but one design or intent towards all mankind, and that is to introduce or generate his own life, light and spirit in them, that all may be as so many images, temples, and habitations of the holy trinity.
Page 12 - First, It is plain that the Sin and Fall of Adam did not consist in this, vit., that he had only committed a single Act of Disobedience, and so might have been just as He was before, if God had pleased to overlook this single Act of Disobedience, and not to have brought a Curse upon him and his Posterity for it. — Nothing of this is the Truth of the Matter, either on the Part of GOD, or on the Part of Man. "Secondly, It is plain also that the Command of GOD, not to lust after, and eat of the forbidden...
Page 64 - Christ are not merely remembered but inwardly found and enjoyed as the real states of thy soul, which has followed Christ in the regeneration. When once thou art well grounded in this inward worship, thou wilt have learnt to live unto God above time and place. For every day will be Sunday to thee, and wherever thou goest, thou wilt have a priest, a church, and an altar along with thee.
Page 202 - If the Spirit of him, who raised Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, he also shall quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit, which dwelleth in you.'* In vain therefore is life expected, either for body or soul, but by the Holy Spirit dwelling in them.