 | 1860 - 918 pages
...upon which they are justified. I. I am to describe true believers. These are persons who have been brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace. All men are by nature morally depraved and entirely destitute of the least degree of true love to God.... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1863 - 514 pages
...you be ready lor it, by a readiness both of state and frame. By a readiness of state, I mean, a being brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace, or a getting in to Christ, and being found in him. By a readiness of frame, I mean, an habitual walking... | |
 | Stephen Charnock - 1865 - 548 pages
...given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning ; that is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace ; and conversion the actual fixing on God, as the terminus ad quern. One gives posse agere, the other actu... | |
 | Stephen Charnock - 1865 - 548 pages
...given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning ; that is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace ; and conversion the actual fixing on God, as the terminus ad quern. One gives posse agere, the other actu... | |
 | Septimus Sears - Sermons, English - 1865 - 692 pages
...God's marvellous light. Eemember, my hearers, you must, if ever you go to heaven, know what it is to be brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace — out of death into life — out of the bondage and service of sin and contentedness with a natural... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning : that is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace, and conversion the actual fixing on God, as the terminus ad quern. One gives posse agere, the other actu... | |
 | John Laidlaw - Bible - 1879 - 408 pages
...given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning ; that is, the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace ; and conversion the actual fixing on God, as the terminus ad quem. One gives posse agere, the other actu... | |
 | 1880 - 864 pages
...time when they shall become fixed is at hand. To which of the two classes do we belong ? Have you been brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace ? if not, you are there still ! Tremble lest God's sentence comes forth, ' He that is unjust, let him... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1879 - 662 pages
...this sinful error. When there has been such a time of great and long continued deadness, and many are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace. m so extraordinary a manner, and filled with such uncommon degrees of light. it is natural for such... | |
 | Great thoughts - 1882 - 742 pages
...given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning : that is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace, and conversion the actual fixing on God, as the terminai ad quem. One gives posse agere, the other actu... | |
| |
In regeneration there is a power conferred ; conversion is the exercise of this power. In regeneration there is given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning ; that is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into... 
