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Page viii
... especially on the doctrine of God's sovereignty in election , against which he at that time violently rebelled . When only ten years of age he wrote a short , quaint , some- what humorous little tract on the immortality of the soul ; at ...
... especially on the doctrine of God's sovereignty in election , against which he at that time violently rebelled . When only ten years of age he wrote a short , quaint , some- what humorous little tract on the immortality of the soul ; at ...
Page xv
... especially feared that the duties of the office would seriously interrupt the literary work in which he was now engrossed . Nevertheless , on the recommendation of a Council called at his desire to advise in the matter , he accepted the ...
... especially feared that the duties of the office would seriously interrupt the literary work in which he was now engrossed . Nevertheless , on the recommendation of a Council called at his desire to advise in the matter , he accepted the ...
Page xviii
... especially contribute to this result , large constructive imagina- tion and a marvellously acute power of abstract reasoning . With the vision of the seer he looks steadily upon his world , which is the world of all time and space and ...
... especially contribute to this result , large constructive imagina- tion and a marvellously acute power of abstract reasoning . With the vision of the seer he looks steadily upon his world , which is the world of all time and space and ...
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... especially tend to commend and oblige the attention and observation . Those things that we are not much dependent upon , ' tis easy to neglect ; but we can scarce do any other than mind that which we have a great dependence on . By ...
... especially tend to commend and oblige the attention and observation . Those things that we are not much dependent upon , ' tis easy to neglect ; but we can scarce do any other than mind that which we have a great dependence on . By ...
Page 39
... especially so with respect to reasonable , intelligent creatures ; who are next to God in the gradation of the different orders of beings , and whose business is most immediately with God ; who were made on purpose for those exercises ...
... especially so with respect to reasonable , intelligent creatures ; who are next to God in the gradation of the different orders of beings , and whose business is most immediately with God ; who were made on purpose for those exercises ...
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Page 8 - And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Page 8 - Him : the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to usward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power...
Page 92 - What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction; and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory...
Page 118 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 131 - And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
Page 14 - Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Page 34 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 34 - At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. 26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Page 93 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Page 42 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...