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... PARDON . The consideration of this attribute is comfortable in our assurances of , and reflections upon the pardon of sin , or seeking of it . As God punishes men for sin according to his knowledge of them , which is greater than the ...
... PARDON . The consideration of this attribute is comfortable in our assurances of , and reflections upon the pardon of sin , or seeking of it . As God punishes men for sin according to his knowledge of them , which is greater than the ...
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... pardoning . For man had broken the law , and plunged himself into a gulf of misery ; the sword of vengeance was unsheathed by justice , for the punishment of the criminal ; the bowels of compassion were stirred by mercy , for the rescue ...
... pardoning . For man had broken the law , and plunged himself into a gulf of misery ; the sword of vengeance was unsheathed by justice , for the punishment of the criminal ; the bowels of compassion were stirred by mercy , for the rescue ...
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... pardoning the malefactor ? Besides the irrepara- ble dishonour to the law , the falsifying thy veracity in not executing the denounced threatening , he would receive encouragement by such grace to spurn more at thy sovereignty , and ...
... pardoning the malefactor ? Besides the irrepara- ble dishonour to the law , the falsifying thy veracity in not executing the denounced threatening , he would receive encouragement by such grace to spurn more at thy sovereignty , and ...
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... pardoned ; justice will complain if man be not punished ; therefore an expedient is found out by the wisdom of God to ... pardon , by transferring the punishment of our crimes upon a surety , exact- ing a recompense from his blood by ...
... pardoned ; justice will complain if man be not punished ; therefore an expedient is found out by the wisdom of God to ... pardon , by transferring the punishment of our crimes upon a surety , exact- ing a recompense from his blood by ...
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... pardoning of sin , a condition that despoils nature of all its pretended excellence : beats down the glory of man at the foot of God . ( 1 Cor . i . 29 , 31. ) It subjects the reason and will of man to the wisdom and authority of God ...
... pardoning of sin , a condition that despoils nature of all its pretended excellence : beats down the glory of man at the foot of God . ( 1 Cor . i . 29 , 31. ) It subjects the reason and will of man to the wisdom and authority of God ...
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Page 374 - Both young men, and maidens; old men and children: let them praise the name of the Lord: For his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 271 - Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price : neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.
Page 251 - Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? 50 Hath not my hand made all these things?
Page 105 - They shall abundantly utter The memory of Thy great goodness, And shall sing of Thy righteousness. THE LORD is gracious, and full of compassion ; Slow to anger, and of great mercy.
Page 278 - The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 362 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 246 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
Page 334 - It is as high as heaven ; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
Page 199 - Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?' saith the Lord God: 'and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Page 368 - And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen ; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them?