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... God provided and promised to Adam eternal happiness , and called for perfect obedience ; which appears from God's threatening , Gen. ii . 17 ; for if man must die if he disobeyed , it implies strongly , that God's covenant was with him ...
... God provided and promised to Adam eternal happiness , and called for perfect obedience ; which appears from God's threatening , Gen. ii . 17 ; for if man must die if he disobeyed , it implies strongly , that God's covenant was with him ...
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... God , who knoweth the heart . The covenant being revealed to man created after God's own image , he could not but perceive the equity and benefit of it ; and so heartily approve , embrace , accept , and consent to it . And this ...
... God , who knoweth the heart . The covenant being revealed to man created after God's own image , he could not but perceive the equity and benefit of it ; and so heartily approve , embrace , accept , and consent to it . And this ...
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... God's creature , by the law of crea- tion , he owed all obedience and subjection to God his creator . Nom . Why ... God's ap- pointment , serve him after a reasonable manner . Secondly , It was meet there should be such a covenant made ...
... God's creature , by the law of crea- tion , he owed all obedience and subjection to God his creator . Nom . Why ... God's ap- pointment , serve him after a reasonable manner . Secondly , It was meet there should be such a covenant made ...
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... God's own words seem to imply , Gen. iii . 22. ‡ * The punishment of death upon the breach of his commandment touching the forbidden fruit . † That is , an equitable covenant , fair and reasonable . The author says , that some learned ...
... God's own words seem to imply , Gen. iii . 22. ‡ * The punishment of death upon the breach of his commandment touching the forbidden fruit . † That is , an equitable covenant , fair and reasonable . The author says , that some learned ...
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... God's express com- mand , in eating the forbidden fruit , and so became guilty of the breach of the covenant . Nom . But , sir , how could Adam , who had his understand- ing so sound , and his will so free to choose good , be so dis ...
... God's express com- mand , in eating the forbidden fruit , and so became guilty of the breach of the covenant . Nom . But , sir , how could Adam , who had his understand- ing so sound , and his will so free to choose good , be so dis ...
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Page 68 - ... just because they were so submissive to the Law ! Jesus was not thinking of the number but of the nature of good works, not of religious observances themselves, but of the principle that ought to underlie them, when he said to his followers, " I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.