| Josiah Hopkins - Presbyterian Church - 1825 - 322 pages
...defmition of faith it will be seen, agrees with that of the Apostle : " He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." a When by the Holy Spirit, the affections of the heart are changed, the darkness of the rnind removed,... | |
| Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 506 pages
...engaged and resolved either to give his mercies, or to deny them. " He that cometh to God, must believe that He is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek himc." " He that calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saved : but how shall they call on him, on... | |
| John Evans - Christian life - 1825 - 568 pages
...6. " Without faith it is impossible to please God ; for he that cometh. to God,. must believe tliat he is, and that he 'is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." The perfections of God may be proved from the nature and reason of things, Rom. i. £0. " The invisible... | |
| Timothy Dwight - Theology, Doctrinal - 1825 - 604 pages
...without faith it is impossible to please God ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he ?.v, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Faith, in its first and simple sense, is assent lo probable evidence. Few of the propositions, to which we... | |
| Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1825 - 426 pages
...practice of the very first principles of religion. For, " he that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." And it is diligently seeking him that they hate and set themselves against. 4. Do not they judge heaven... | |
| Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 632 pages
...saved who knew not the person of Christ, determinately. For he that cometh to God must believe that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him; who is no respecter of persons, but in every nation, he that feareth God and worketh righteousness... | |
| James Sherman - God - 1826 - 188 pages
...be like the Athenians, who erected an altar to the unknown God. " He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Next to the belief of his existence this must follow. " There are three that bear record in heaven;... | |
| John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 650 pages
...unto prayer, which without it is but vain babbling. Whoever cometh unto God hereby, ' must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.' (2dly.) There is in it also a representation of our wills, affections, and desires of our souls, unto... | |
| John William Fletcher - 1826 - 610 pages
...Heathen, and much more for a Christian, to work righteousness without believing in some degree ' that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him,' as well as the punisher of them that presumptnously sin against him. — ' For without faith it is... | |
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