The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life ...G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830 - Congregational churches |
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... promises to his creatures , could not properly be what moved him to create the world ; nor could such a fulfilment of his promises to his creatures be his last end in giving the creatures being . But yet after the world is created ...
... promises to his creatures , could not properly be what moved him to create the world ; nor could such a fulfilment of his promises to his creatures be his last end in giving the creatures being . But yet after the world is created ...
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... promises of making God's people happy , that God there- in might be glorified . 66 So is that in Isa . xliii . as we shall see plainly , if we take the whole that is said from the beginning of the chapter , ver . 1-7 . It is wholly a ...
... promises of making God's people happy , that God there- in might be glorified . 66 So is that in Isa . xliii . as we shall see plainly , if we take the whole that is said from the beginning of the chapter , ver . 1-7 . It is wholly a ...
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... promised to be effected , is plainly an accomplish- ment of the joy , gladness , and happiness of God's people , in- stead of their mourning and sorrow ; and the end in which God's design in this work is obtained and summed up , is his ...
... promised to be effected , is plainly an accomplish- ment of the joy , gladness , and happiness of God's people , in- stead of their mourning and sorrow ; and the end in which God's design in this work is obtained and summed up , is his ...
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... promised him , and of the joy set before him . But we must understand him , that this was not his ultimate aim ; it was not the end that chiefly governed his conduct and therefore , when in opposition to this , in the latter part of the ...
... promised him , and of the joy set before him . But we must understand him , that this was not his ultimate aim ; it was not the end that chiefly governed his conduct and therefore , when in opposition to this , in the latter part of the ...
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... promises of rewards , and of their fulfilment . 2 Cor . i . 20. " For all the promises of God in him are yea , and in him Amen , TO THE GLORY OF GOD by us . " And this is spoken of as the end of the execution of God's threatenings , in ...
... promises of rewards , and of their fulfilment . 2 Cor . i . 20. " For all the promises of God in him are yea , and in him Amen , TO THE GLORY OF GOD by us . " And this is spoken of as the end of the execution of God's threatenings , in ...
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Page 483 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out.
Page 443 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles ; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 470 - And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow , of wines on the lees well refined.
Page 323 - Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples : and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Page 50 - Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever.
Page 547 - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; We have waited for him, and he will save us: This is the Lord ; we have waited for him , We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Page 398 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Page 578 - Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God : and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God...
Page 283 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 185 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.