The System of Doctrines: Contained in Divine Revelation, Explained and Defended. Showing Their Consistence and Connexion with Each Other. To which is Added a Treatise on the Millenium, Volume 1Lincoln & Edmands, 1811 - Millennium (Eschatology) |
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... possible way or supposition , or it being infinitely im- possible it should be otherwise ; universal non existence , being the greatest contradiction in nature . If it should be said , this runs all into darkness ; for we can no more ...
... possible way or supposition , or it being infinitely im- possible it should be otherwise ; universal non existence , being the greatest contradiction in nature . If it should be said , this runs all into darkness ; for we can no more ...
Page 45
... possible , if we make any proper use of our reason , that we should find ourselves inhabiting such bodies , without discerning the contrivance and wisdom of our make , and seeing and acknowledging the hand and skill of the wise Author ...
... possible , if we make any proper use of our reason , that we should find ourselves inhabiting such bodies , without discerning the contrivance and wisdom of our make , and seeing and acknowledging the hand and skill of the wise Author ...
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... possible cause or reason of any kind of limitation ; and therefore there can be none . 2. Necessary existence must be infinite ; for as there can be nothing to bound this necessity , it must take place with respect to every possible ...
... possible cause or reason of any kind of limitation ; and therefore there can be none . 2. Necessary existence must be infinite ; for as there can be nothing to bound this necessity , it must take place with respect to every possible ...
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... possible advantages , and possessed of the great- est abilities to search ; and though they exert all their powers and strength to the utmost , and wisely improve every advantage to get knowledge , without intermission , and without end ...
... possible advantages , and possessed of the great- est abilities to search ; and though they exert all their powers and strength to the utmost , and wisely improve every advantage to get knowledge , without intermission , and without end ...
Page 52
... power , without any rectitude , wisdom and goodness of heart , if this were possible , would not be desirable and amiable ; but worse than nothing , and infinitely dreadful . Therefore they 52 PART I. Concerning the Being.
... power , without any rectitude , wisdom and goodness of heart , if this were possible , would not be desirable and amiable ; but worse than nothing , and infinitely dreadful . Therefore they 52 PART I. Concerning the Being.
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Page 276 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Page 168 - He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart : that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them; These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
Page 34 - How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
Page 301 - Christ ; who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power, when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired by all them that believe.
Page 25 - For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me ; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Page 62 - In this was manifested the love of GOD towards us, because that GOD sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved GOD, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 482 - But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Page 333 - I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Page 158 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Page 57 - But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.