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... human nature , so rude and untractable , and so incapable of arts and discipline , that if the reports concerning them are to be believed , and if that weakens the argument from the common consent of mankind on the one hand , it ...
... human nature , so rude and untractable , and so incapable of arts and discipline , that if the reports concerning them are to be believed , and if that weakens the argument from the common consent of mankind on the one hand , it ...
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... human intellect when unassisted by revelation . Some few individuals , in the different ages of the world , have indeed rejected all belief in the existence of a God ; but we may generally trace the rejection of a Deity to the source of ...
... human intellect when unassisted by revelation . Some few individuals , in the different ages of the world , have indeed rejected all belief in the existence of a God ; but we may generally trace the rejection of a Deity to the source of ...
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... human reason only , but has confirmed and established it by Revelation . The unity of God is expressly declared in many passages of Scripture : " Hear , O Israel ; the Lord our God is one Lord ( e ) . " - " Unto thee it was shewed ...
... human reason only , but has confirmed and established it by Revelation . The unity of God is expressly declared in many passages of Scripture : " Hear , O Israel ; the Lord our God is one Lord ( e ) . " - " Unto thee it was shewed ...
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... human merit could have the remotest claim , surely we may pronounce that the goodness of God is infinite , " boundless as his universal works , and endless as the ages of eternity ( y ) . " - " The Lord is good to all , and his tender ...
... human merit could have the remotest claim , surely we may pronounce that the goodness of God is infinite , " boundless as his universal works , and endless as the ages of eternity ( y ) . " - " The Lord is good to all , and his tender ...
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... human reason , that there is no way of accounting for the general adoption of so singular a belief , but by supposing that it was revealed by God to the early patriarchs , and that it was transmitted by them to their posterity . In its ...
... human reason , that there is no way of accounting for the general adoption of so singular a belief , but by supposing that it was revealed by God to the early patriarchs , and that it was transmitted by them to their posterity . In its ...
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Page 433 - For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the LORD, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Page 293 - PREDESTINATION to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
Page 151 - Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne...
Page 222 - Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam — as the Pelagians do vainly talk — but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam ; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the Flesh lusteth always contrary to the Spirit; and therefore, in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 472 - The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another; but rather it is a Sacrament of our Redemption by Christ's death: insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith, receive the same, the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ; and likewise the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ.
Page 251 - God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 328 - Ceremonies, and authority in Controversies of Faith: and yet it is not lawful for the Church to ordain any thing that is contrary to God's Word written, neither may it so expound one place of Scripture, that it be repugnant to another. Wherefore, although the Church be a witness and a keeper of Holy Writ, yet, as it ought not to decree any thing against the same, so besides the same ought it not to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of Salvation.
Page 92 - The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for. blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Page 107 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 557 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, neither by the earth, | neither by any other oath : but let your yea, be yea; and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation.