The Works of President Edwards ...G. & C. & H. Carvell, 1830 |
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... argument on this subject , I would explain how I would be understood , when I use the word Cause in this discourse ; since , for want of a better word , I shall have occasion to use it in a sense which is more exten- sive , than that in ...
... argument on this subject , I would explain how I would be understood , when I use the word Cause in this discourse ; since , for want of a better word , I shall have occasion to use it in a sense which is more exten- sive , than that in ...
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... arguing from Effects to Causes ceaseth , and so all knowledge of any existence , besides what we have by the most direct and immediate intuition , particularly all our proof of the be- ing of God ceases : we argue His being from our own ...
... arguing from Effects to Causes ceaseth , and so all knowledge of any existence , besides what we have by the most direct and immediate intuition , particularly all our proof of the be- ing of God ceases : we argue His being from our own ...
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... argument a priori and one a posteriori , a distinction of considerable use , as well as of long standing among divines , metaphysicians , and logical writers . An argument from either of these , when legitimately applied , may amount to ...
... argument a priori and one a posteriori , a distinction of considerable use , as well as of long standing among divines , metaphysicians , and logical writers . An argument from either of these , when legitimately applied , may amount to ...
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... arguing from the creature to the Creator , and all our evidence of the Being of God , is cut off at one blow . In this case , we cannot prove that there is a God , either from the Being of the world , and the creatures in it , or from ...
... arguing from the creature to the Creator , and all our evidence of the Being of God , is cut off at one blow . In this case , we cannot prove that there is a God , either from the Being of the world , and the creatures in it , or from ...
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... argument for self - determining power , is the sup- posed experience we universally have of an ability to deter- mine our Wills , in cases wherein no prevailing motive is presented the Will , as is supposed , has its choice to make ...
... argument for self - determining power , is the sup- posed experience we universally have of an ability to deter- mine our Wills , in cases wherein no prevailing motive is presented the Will , as is supposed , has its choice to make ...
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Page 456 - And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Page 436 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 462 - We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Page 149 - Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, And he shall divide the spoil with the strong; Because he hath poured out his soul unto death: And he was numbered with the transgressors ; And he bare the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
Page 436 - I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Page 457 - As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Page 108 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Page 139 - A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Page 114 - But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Page 439 - What is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints ; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy Is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?