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Page 29
... These methods of falvation are matter of great complaint with unbelievers : they think it highly unreasonable , that God should pro- pose such things as objects of faith ; and from the unreasonableness of the impofition they argue ...
... These methods of falvation are matter of great complaint with unbelievers : they think it highly unreasonable , that God should pro- pose such things as objects of faith ; and from the unreasonableness of the impofition they argue ...
Page 30
... these things were fufficiently published to the world , when men were endued with reafon . But all the methods of religion beyond these were , and ftill are , myfterious : the intention of God to redeem the world from fin by fending his ...
... these things were fufficiently published to the world , when men were endued with reafon . But all the methods of religion beyond these were , and ftill are , myfterious : the intention of God to redeem the world from fin by fending his ...
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... these things , and to truft him that we fhall receive the benefit of them : for this is all the faith , or pofitive obedience , that is required of us ; as will in its due place appear . But to return to the question , whether it can be ...
... these things , and to truft him that we fhall receive the benefit of them : for this is all the faith , or pofitive obedience , that is required of us ; as will in its due place appear . But to return to the question , whether it can be ...
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... these things cannot be done by the means of reason and nature , they must be done by fuch means as reafon and nature know nothing of ; that is , in other words , they must be done by myfterious means , of the pro- priety of which we can ...
... these things cannot be done by the means of reason and nature , they must be done by fuch means as reafon and nature know nothing of ; that is , in other words , they must be done by myfterious means , of the pro- priety of which we can ...
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... thing in the world , them- felves not excepted . Since then to comprehend the reason and nature of things , is neither neceffary to our believing the reality of them , nor yet to our receiving benefit and advantage from them ; how comes ...
... thing in the world , them- felves not excepted . Since then to comprehend the reason and nature of things , is neither neceffary to our believing the reality of them , nor yet to our receiving benefit and advantage from them ; how comes ...
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Page 374 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man : but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 119 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 258 - Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet'; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.' '"Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 327 - And he said. Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
Page 377 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 176 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 139 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts : and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 280 - And to whom sware He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Page 209 - Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand...
Page 320 - Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling : for it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.