On Man: His Motives, Their Rise, Operations, Opposition, and Results, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833 - Theological anthropology |
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... disposed to object to the stress here laid upon choice and its results , as tending to derogate from the influence and importance of divine grace , it may be observed , that there are just reasons for concluding that the gifts of God ...
... disposed to object to the stress here laid upon choice and its results , as tending to derogate from the influence and importance of divine grace , it may be observed , that there are just reasons for concluding that the gifts of God ...
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... disposed to learn and gain knowledge and a facility of action by successive advances . He acts volun- tarily and intentionally , not under instinctive im- pulses ; and whatever he does depends upon his own energies and exertions . Our ...
... disposed to learn and gain knowledge and a facility of action by successive advances . He acts volun- tarily and intentionally , not under instinctive im- pulses ; and whatever he does depends upon his own energies and exertions . Our ...
Page 43
... disposed as to be ready at hand when wanted , and that such of them as might have been placed below or behind , should , without jostling or disturbing others , make their way , and present themselves precisely where wanted , or why ...
... disposed as to be ready at hand when wanted , and that such of them as might have been placed below or behind , should , without jostling or disturbing others , make their way , and present themselves precisely where wanted , or why ...
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... disposed to think that it is the only and obvious mark of differ- ence which can be relied on . But it may be justly asserted , that the mere act of looking back on what has happened , or forward to what may happen , would be of little ...
... disposed to think that it is the only and obvious mark of differ- ence which can be relied on . But it may be justly asserted , that the mere act of looking back on what has happened , or forward to what may happen , would be of little ...
Page 105
... disposed to choose the former , and some the latter ; and the same person at one time making a wrong choice , urged blindly on by passion , and then , under the influence of reason , repenting sincerely for his guilt and folly . It ...
... disposed to choose the former , and some the latter ; and the same person at one time making a wrong choice , urged blindly on by passion , and then , under the influence of reason , repenting sincerely for his guilt and folly . It ...
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Popular passages
Page 312 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 353 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 352 - For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man ; but he that built all things is God.
Page 320 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 333 - The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you...
Page iii - Either make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Page 352 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Page 312 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 360 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 353 - For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did ; by the which we draw nigh unto God.