Hulsean Lectures for the Year 1839. Man's Responsibility in Reference to His Religious Belief, Explained and Applied

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B. Fellowes, 1840 - Belief and doubt - 242 pages

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Page xxvii - Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
Page xxviii - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Page 100 - According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue...
Page 97 - Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Page 1 - He that believeth on him is not condemned : but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Page 2 - But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Page 94 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Page 135 - How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
Page 23 - 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 xiii - The evidence of religion not appearing obvious, may constitute one particular part of some men's trial in the religious sense ; as it gives scope for a virtuous exercise, or vicious neglect, of their understanding, in examining or not examining into that evidence. There seems no possible reason to be given, why we may not be in a state of moral probation, with regard to the exercise of our understanding upon the subject of religion, as we are with regard to our behaviour in common affairs. The former...

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