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... grace , and displays the same divine wisdom , power , and love . But an extensive knowledge of what God has created for His glory and for our instruction , can in general only be attained by human writings . Bishop Reynolds re- marks ...
... grace , and displays the same divine wisdom , power , and love . But an extensive knowledge of what God has created for His glory and for our instruction , can in general only be attained by human writings . Bishop Reynolds re- marks ...
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... grace , and often hinders and hurts the soul . It has pleased God to make manifest the inefficiency of human acquirements of themselves , that He might the more display the necessity and excellence of His own grace ; but in every age ...
... grace , and often hinders and hurts the soul . It has pleased God to make manifest the inefficiency of human acquirements of themselves , that He might the more display the necessity and excellence of His own grace ; but in every age ...
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... grace , and the depression of human pride , it is in conclusion strenu- ously maintained that God has greatly blessed and honored men , like Bunyan , not without knowledge , but without learning ; and has left learned men , and ...
... grace , and the depression of human pride , it is in conclusion strenu- ously maintained that God has greatly blessed and honored men , like Bunyan , not without knowledge , but without learning ; and has left learned men , and ...
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... grace . This moral reaction is always at work , and in seek- ing first the kingdom of God and His righteousness , we are most effectually securing every other good . As Solomon , by seeking wisdom rather than riches , gained both ; so ...
... grace . This moral reaction is always at work , and in seek- ing first the kingdom of God and His righteousness , we are most effectually securing every other good . As Solomon , by seeking wisdom rather than riches , gained both ; so ...
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... grace ; the one , by human learning , the other by divine ; the one reads the Scriptures without , the other within ; the one understands as a son of man , the other as a son of God ; the one per- ceives by the proportion of the world ...
... grace ; the one , by human learning , the other by divine ; the one reads the Scriptures without , the other within ; the one understands as a son of man , the other as a son of God ; the one per- ceives by the proportion of the world ...
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Page 229 - The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Page 86 - But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Page 282 - Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any : even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 136 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing...
Page 269 - I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious...
Page 61 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 41 - For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God.
Page 16 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Page 14 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 114 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.