The Works of President Edwards ...G. & C. & H. Carvell, 1830 |
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... Event without a Cause IV . Volition not without a Cause v . These Evasions Impertinent 26 32 38 2888 15 18 42 45 50 55 59 VI . Of choosing in Things Indifferent 62 68 77 IX . Will connected with Understanding 80 x . Acts connected with ...
... Event without a Cause IV . Volition not without a Cause v . These Evasions Impertinent 26 32 38 2888 15 18 42 45 50 55 59 VI . Of choosing in Things Indifferent 62 68 77 IX . Will connected with Understanding 80 x . Acts connected with ...
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... event , any otherwise than as we voluntarily oppose it . Things are said to be what must be , or necessarily are , as to us , when they are , or will be , though we desire or endeavour the con- trary , or try to prevent or remove their ...
... event , any otherwise than as we voluntarily oppose it . Things are said to be what must be , or necessarily are , as to us , when they are , or will be , though we desire or endeavour the con- trary , or try to prevent or remove their ...
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... event has fixed and decided the matter , as to its existence ; and has made it impossible but that ex- istence should be truly predicated of it . Thus the existence of whatever is already come to pass , is now become necessary ; it is ...
... event has fixed and decided the matter , as to its existence ; and has made it impossible but that ex- istence should be truly predicated of it . Thus the existence of whatever is already come to pass , is now become necessary ; it is ...
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... event , or any thing whatsoever that ever has had , or will have a beginning , has come into being necessarily , or will hereafter necessarily exist . And therefore this is the Neces- sity which especially belongs to controversies about ...
... event , or any thing whatsoever that ever has had , or will have a beginning , has come into being necessarily , or will hereafter necessarily exist . And therefore this is the Neces- sity which especially belongs to controversies about ...
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... event , but for something which has absolutely no previous ground or reason , with which its existence has any fixed and certain connection . SECT . IV . Of the Distinction of natural and moral Necessity , and Inability . That Necessity ...
... event , but for something which has absolutely no previous ground or reason , with which its existence has any fixed and certain connection . SECT . IV . Of the Distinction of natural and moral Necessity , and Inability . That Necessity ...
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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?