| Samuel Stanhope Smith - Natural theology - 1815 - 570 pages
...might stand, not of works, but of him that callelh, it was said, the greater shall serve the younger ; as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Can words proclaim, with more decisive evidence, the preordination of events, and of those events particularly.... | |
| Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1816 - 524 pages
...predestination, without any difference of merit. If you inquire the cause, the apostle assigns the following; " For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I...will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." (y) And what is this but a plain declaration of the Lord, that he finds no cause in men to induct-... | |
| Theology - 1816 - 304 pages
...Ggd's hardening the hearts of sinBay then * Is their unrighteousness with God ? God forhid. For he with to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and 1 will have compaseion on whom I will have compassion, fr-o then it is not of him that willeth, nor... | |
| Samuel Whelpley - Calvinism (anti) - 1817 - 626 pages
...his will can be unjust, arhitrary, rash, or capricious. It is proper for him to say, " I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." Those acts of God, which are called sovereign acts, are such as infinite goodness approves, and are,... | |
| sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 628 pages
...stand, not of works, but of him that calleth ; it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger : as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated (c);' some have been induced to think, that the Apostle Paul has taken away free-will, through which... | |
| Thomas Belsham - Unitarianism - 1817 - 386 pages
...purpose of God, according to election, might stand, it was said, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated ;" ie I have chosen, without regard to personal merit, to grant privileges to Jacob which will be denied... | |
| Arminianism - 1817 - 370 pages
...Paul's words in the epistle to the Romans : ' It was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger : as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated,' chap. ix. 12, 13. For it is undeniably plain, that both these scriptures relate not to the persons... | |
| Samuel Whelpley - Calvinism (anti) - 1817 - 414 pages
...his will can be unjust, arhitrary, rash, or capricious. It is proper for him to say, " I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion OB whom I will have compassion." Those acts of God, which are called sovereign acts, are such as infinite... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
..." For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ." — " What shall we say then ? Is there unrighteousness with God ? God forbid. So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that shewcth mercy, &c.... | |
| Future punishment - 1817 - 334 pages
...elder shall serve the younger : 13. As it ia written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. 14. What shall we say then ? is there unrighteousness with God ? God forbid. 15. For He saith unto Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion... | |
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