The Quarterly Christian SpectatorS. Cooke, 1835 - Theology |
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... God and Jesus to some barbarous land ; yes , then the hoary patriarch , who , at God's command , bound on the altar his son , his only son , he whose faith , as manifested in that act , has spoken in resistless tones to unnumbered ...
... God and Jesus to some barbarous land ; yes , then the hoary patriarch , who , at God's command , bound on the altar his son , his only son , he whose faith , as manifested in that act , has spoken in resistless tones to unnumbered ...
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... God , except as the Spirit of God shall previously move upon his darkened soul ? The result is , that he sits down to wait God's time , in his coldness and backsliding . Such , we believe , is the actual influence of the view ...
... God , except as the Spirit of God shall previously move upon his darkened soul ? The result is , that he sits down to wait God's time , in his coldness and backsliding . Such , we believe , is the actual influence of the view ...
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... God's time . He must follow the inspired direction , " work out your own salvation with fear and trembling , for it is God that worketh in you , both to will and to do , of his good pleasure . " As to motives to such effort , ( another ...
... God's time . He must follow the inspired direction , " work out your own salvation with fear and trembling , for it is God that worketh in you , both to will and to do , of his good pleasure . " As to motives to such effort , ( another ...
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... God's presence , and a reliance upon his aid , in all the varied employments and concerns of life . Most christians feel , that on important occasions , and in trying emergencies , they are to look to God , for the temper and spirit ...
... God's presence , and a reliance upon his aid , in all the varied employments and concerns of life . Most christians feel , that on important occasions , and in trying emergencies , they are to look to God , for the temper and spirit ...
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... God for power , as well as for willingness , to do his duty . Such views must , of necessity , preclude any definite or practical sense of guilt . For how is it possible , that a man should feel guilty of having done wrong , when he ...
... God for power , as well as for willingness , to do his duty . Such views must , of necessity , preclude any definite or practical sense of guilt . For how is it possible , that a man should feel guilty of having done wrong , when he ...
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Page 382 - What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Page 213 - What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine ; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Page 210 - Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes : and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city...
Page 53 - Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Page 204 - Withhold not correction from the child : for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
Page 544 - And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Page 301 - Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment...
Page 206 - For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, "Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Page 97 - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known ; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some Eternal Spirit...
Page 217 - Behold I will send you Elijah, the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. "And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.