The Works of President Edwards, Volume 7James Black & Son, 1817 - Congregational churches |
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... probable . There is a difference between suspending our judgment , or forbearing to condemn , or having some hope that possibly the thing may be so , and so hoping the best ; and a positive judgment in favour of a person . For having ...
... probable . There is a difference between suspending our judgment , or forbearing to condemn , or having some hope that possibly the thing may be so , and so hoping the best ; and a positive judgment in favour of a person . For having ...
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... probable , there was not one erroneous judgment in the whole thousand . We all have innumerable judgments about one thing or other , concerning religious , moral , secular , and philosophical affairs , concerning past , present , and ...
... probable , there was not one erroneous judgment in the whole thousand . We all have innumerable judgments about one thing or other , concerning religious , moral , secular , and philosophical affairs , concerning past , present , and ...
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... probable that every one is true . It is an easy mathematical demonstration . Hence the negative of the foregoing question by no means implies a pre- tence of any scheme , that shall be effectual to keep all hypo- crites out of the ...
... probable that every one is true . It is an easy mathematical demonstration . Hence the negative of the foregoing question by no means implies a pre- tence of any scheme , that shall be effectual to keep all hypo- crites out of the ...
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... probable ex- hibition , can amount to a visibility to the eye of man's reason or judgment . The eye which God has given to man is the eye of reason ; and the eye of a Christian is reason sanctified , regu- lated , and enlightened , by a ...
... probable ex- hibition , can amount to a visibility to the eye of man's reason or judgment . The eye which God has given to man is the eye of reason ; and the eye of a Christian is reason sanctified , regu- lated , and enlightened , by a ...
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... probable to God's people by reason of the imperfect and dark state they are in , and so may oblige their charity , which yet is not real , and which would not appear at all probable to angels , who stand in a clearer light . And the ...
... probable to God's people by reason of the imperfect and dark state they are in , and so may oblige their charity , which yet is not real , and which would not appear at all probable to angels , who stand in a clearer light . And the ...
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Page 31 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Page 66 - Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
Page 405 - Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded...
Page 488 - And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Page 475 - 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 498 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 29 - Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Page 40 - The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach ; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and with, the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Page 31 - And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie ; but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Page 366 - Spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.