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... absurdity and con- tradiction . It is , however , often so defined as to con- found it with its supposed consequence , depravity . What the true signification of depravity is , and from what real source derived , will become distinct ...
... absurdity and con- tradiction . It is , however , often so defined as to con- found it with its supposed consequence , depravity . What the true signification of depravity is , and from what real source derived , will become distinct ...
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... absurdity , and absurdity become reason . And from the whole it conclusively follows , that sin , is not a personal quali- ty , but a personal act , in violation of divine law ; and is in no other sense a quality , but so far as it may ...
... absurdity , and absurdity become reason . And from the whole it conclusively follows , that sin , is not a personal quali- ty , but a personal act , in violation of divine law ; and is in no other sense a quality , but so far as it may ...
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... absurdities and contradictions ; for David's words neither assert nor imply that his moth- er had conceived or made him a sinner . Your sup- porting texts shall now be noticed in their arranged order . Second . " Were by nature the ...
... absurdities and contradictions ; for David's words neither assert nor imply that his moth- er had conceived or made him a sinner . Your sup- porting texts shall now be noticed in their arranged order . Second . " Were by nature the ...
Page 83
... absurdity of affirming a total passiveness in the subjects of this heavenly birth , and detect the fallacy of comparing their condi- tion to that of Lazarus raised from his grave ; or of Adam when created . For such comparisons result ...
... absurdity of affirming a total passiveness in the subjects of this heavenly birth , and detect the fallacy of comparing their condi- tion to that of Lazarus raised from his grave ; or of Adam when created . For such comparisons result ...
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... absurdity into plausible argument . This mirror was " love of being in gener- al , " set in a frame gilded with disinterested love . And such were the effects of this surprising mirror , that thousands looking therein became instantly ...
... absurdity into plausible argument . This mirror was " love of being in gener- al , " set in a frame gilded with disinterested love . And such were the effects of this surprising mirror , that thousands looking therein became instantly ...
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Page 59 - Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Page 312 - Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play (also read Exodus 32:6).
Page 68 - For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Page 286 - How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit...
Page 261 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Page 150 - Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of Hosts.
Page 182 - 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.
Page 281 - And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift : for the judgment was by one to condemnation ; but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
Page 292 - ... tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ; but glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: for there is no respect of persons with God.
Page 310 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.