The Works of President Edwards ...by Isaiah Thomas, jun., Sturtevant, printer .., 1809 - Congregational churches |
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... objects of faith as almost to forget it had any temporal concerns . They are grave and solemn . They descend to particulars , and survey the whole ground of duty and of guilt . They pursue the sinner into all his lurking places , and ...
... objects of faith as almost to forget it had any temporal concerns . They are grave and solemn . They descend to particulars , and survey the whole ground of duty and of guilt . They pursue the sinner into all his lurking places , and ...
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... object of Gospel preaching , these most successfully obtain it . The reader is compelled to think ; and e feels evidence . Obli gation arrests him , with a sensibility of which he was never con- scious before , and he realizes , with ...
... object of Gospel preaching , these most successfully obtain it . The reader is compelled to think ; and e feels evidence . Obli gation arrests him , with a sensibility of which he was never con- scious before , and he realizes , with ...
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... object of this acceptance and justification , which is the benefit arising therefrom more indirectly ; and therefore , if faith be an instrument , it is more properly the instrument by which we receive Christ , than the instrument by ...
... object of this acceptance and justification , which is the benefit arising therefrom more indirectly ; and therefore , if faith be an instrument , it is more properly the instrument by which we receive Christ , than the instrument by ...
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... object , that if so , then it may as well be argued , that there is also an infi- nite value or worthiness in holiness and love to God , because that also has an infinite object ; whereas the argument , from parity of reason , will ...
... object , that if so , then it may as well be argued , that there is also an infi- nite value or worthiness in holiness and love to God , because that also has an infinite object ; whereas the argument , from parity of reason , will ...
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... object against whom it is com- mitted . One sin cannot be more aggravated than another in that respect , because in this respect the aggravation of every sin is infinite ; but that does not hinder but that some sins may be more heinous ...
... object against whom it is com- mitted . One sin cannot be more aggravated than another in that respect , because in this respect the aggravation of every sin is infinite ; but that does not hinder but that some sins may be more heinous ...
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Page 308 - At that day ye shall ask in my name : and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you : for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Page 109 - Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
Page 44 - What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Page 287 - And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Page 102 - But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Page 87 - Now the just shall live by faith : but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition ; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Page 481 - Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Page 49 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost...
Page 13 - Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying ; Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Page 107 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision ; but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.