The Works of Robt. Leighton, Volume 1W. Nicholson, 1805 - Theology |
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... God's election , chosen or pickt out ; strangers to men amongst whom they dwelt , but known and foreknown to God ; removed from their own country , to which men have naturally an unalterable affection , but made heirs of a better , as ...
... God's election , chosen or pickt out ; strangers to men amongst whom they dwelt , but known and foreknown to God ; removed from their own country , to which men have naturally an unalterable affection , but made heirs of a better , as ...
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... God's own hand for him- self " . Know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself : therefore , saith ... God calling us to his obedience , then let us pray with the spouse , draw me . She cannot go nor stir without that ...
... God's own hand for him- self " . Know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself : therefore , saith ... God calling us to his obedience , then let us pray with the spouse , draw me . She cannot go nor stir without that ...
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... God in the view of that , as the con- dition of election itself , as it is called , has chosen them : for , 1. Nothing at all is futurum , or can have that imagined futurition , but as it is , and because it is decreed by God to be ...
... God in the view of that , as the con- dition of election itself , as it is called , has chosen them : for , 1. Nothing at all is futurum , or can have that imagined futurition , but as it is , and because it is decreed by God to be ...
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... God ! Now the connexion of these , we are for our pro- fit to take notice of , that effectual calling is insepa ... God's image in their own souls , those are the counter - part of the golden characters of his love , in which their ...
... God ! Now the connexion of these , we are for our pro- fit to take notice of , that effectual calling is insepa ... God's image in their own souls , those are the counter - part of the golden characters of his love , in which their ...
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... God by fixed believing , points at the love of election , and tells the soul that its course is Heavenward , towards the haven of eternal rest . He that loves , may be sure he was loved first ; and he that chuses God for his delight and ...
... God by fixed believing , points at the love of election , and tells the soul that its course is Heavenward , towards the haven of eternal rest . He that loves , may be sure he was loved first ; and he that chuses God for his delight and ...
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Page 43 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 421 - Likewise, .ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life ; that your prayers be not hindered.
Page 405 - Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...
Page 39 - And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Page 109 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ...
Page 432 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded : and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Page 152 - Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot : who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Page 163 - Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
Page 214 - THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made...
Page 468 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it...