An Essay in which the Doctrine of a Positive Divine Efficiency: Exciting the Will of Men to Sin, as Held by Some Modern Writers, is Candidly Discussed, and Shewn to be 1. Unphilosophical. 2. Inconsistent with the Plain and Obvious Sense of the Holy Scriptures, and of Course a Departure from the Simplicity of the Gospel; and 3. A Novel Doctrine, Utterly Repugnant to the Faith of the Christian Church in All Past AgesSamuel T. Armstrong, 1820 - 132 من الصفحات |
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... mean not to offend , but it appears to me , that the pride of reasoning and confi- dent speculation is as much the danger of re- ligious people in North America , as antinomian laxity and selfishness , is of those in Old Eng- land ...
... mean not to offend , but it appears to me , that the pride of reasoning and confi- dent speculation is as much the danger of re- ligious people in North America , as antinomian laxity and selfishness , is of those in Old Eng- land ...
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... meaning , and the point aimed at , a great deal of useless contention , heat and bitterness , would have been avoided . If any one should condescend to read what follows in these sheets , I beseech him , therefore , here to pause and ...
... meaning , and the point aimed at , a great deal of useless contention , heat and bitterness , would have been avoided . If any one should condescend to read what follows in these sheets , I beseech him , therefore , here to pause and ...
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... means adapted ; but , then , if we would not misunderstand them , it must care- fully be observed , that in their view , no motives , means , instruments , or second causes , have any power to produce volition , without this inward di ...
... means adapted ; but , then , if we would not misunderstand them , it must care- fully be observed , that in their view , no motives , means , instruments , or second causes , have any power to produce volition , without this inward di ...
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... means in them- selves ? " Is this the idea , that means independently of God have no energy ? If so , who will contend with them ? Do they suppose that any man , who believes the Bible , would advance such an idea , as that God ever ...
... means in them- selves ? " Is this the idea , that means independently of God have no energy ? If so , who will contend with them ? Do they suppose that any man , who believes the Bible , would advance such an idea , as that God ever ...
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... means , there is great danger of their readers being misguided . According to their theory , means are absolutely nothing . Motives are no means of mov- ing rational creatures to act , and it is absurd for them to talk of them as means ...
... means , there is great danger of their readers being misguided . According to their theory , means are absolutely nothing . Motives are no means of mov- ing rational creatures to act , and it is absurd for them to talk of them as means ...
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الصفحة 82 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own : for he is a liar, and the father of it.
الصفحة 62 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual. . . . For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
الصفحة 88 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
الصفحة 17 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
الصفحة 106 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
الصفحة 42 - Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
الصفحة 76 - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him; for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.
الصفحة 44 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
الصفحة 93 - What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction...
الصفحة 73 - Then answered Jesus, and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do : for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.