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The reason of mortals could never have discovered these truths unless revealed ,
and even after they are revealed , it is insufficient fully to comprehend them .
However unmeaning or uninteresting these doctrines may appear to some , who
...
The reason of mortals could never have discovered these truths unless revealed ,
and even after they are revealed , it is insufficient fully to comprehend them .
However unmeaning or uninteresting these doctrines may appear to some , who
...
Page 18
Reason , even unenlightened by revelation , suggests that there must be some “
first cause ” which produced all other causes ; some uncreated , eternal BEING
which gave existence to all other beings ; yet reason ascends no higher ;
although ...
Reason , even unenlightened by revelation , suggests that there must be some “
first cause ” which produced all other causes ; some uncreated , eternal BEING
which gave existence to all other beings ; yet reason ascends no higher ;
although ...
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... contradicts our daiJy experience , and insults the common reason of mankind .
” Every reader is at liberty to determine for himself ; but for my own part I cannot
believe the bible , and doubt the sovereignty of God in fore - ordaining all things ...
... contradicts our daiJy experience , and insults the common reason of mankind .
” Every reader is at liberty to determine for himself ; but for my own part I cannot
believe the bible , and doubt the sovereignty of God in fore - ordaining all things ...
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Never does man act a part nobler in itself , more becoming his station , than when
he lays his reason at the foot of the gospel , and receives implicitly whatever it
contains ; believes without reservé this wisdom of God in a mystery . 66 My favor
...
Never does man act a part nobler in itself , more becoming his station , than when
he lays his reason at the foot of the gospel , and receives implicitly whatever it
contains ; believes without reservé this wisdom of God in a mystery . 66 My favor
...
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But this communion is suddenly suspended ; the former smiles of his Creator are
now succeeded by fearful evidences of his wrath , and the mournful reason is
assigned in our text , “ for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God .
But this communion is suddenly suspended ; the former smiles of his Creator are
now succeeded by fearful evidences of his wrath , and the mournful reason is
assigned in our text , “ for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God .
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| Title | A Series of Discourses on the Leading Doctrines and Duties of Christianity, Volume 2 A Series of Discourses on the Leading Doctrines and Duties of Christianity, Alexander Proudfit |
| Author | Alexander Proudfit |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Dodd, Rumsey and Stevenson, 1815 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Mar 2008 |
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