Letters to a Friend: On the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties, of the Christian Religion, Volume 2Baldwin and Cradock, 1829 - Apologetics |
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... character and conduct of mankind , that " he " who runs may read ; " yet they require to be asserted repeatedly in the Word of God before they receive our assent and after all we yield that assent more reluct- antly than to any other ...
... character and conduct of mankind , that " he " who runs may read ; " yet they require to be asserted repeatedly in the Word of God before they receive our assent and after all we yield that assent more reluct- antly than to any other ...
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... character of a revelation from God to abound in enigmas , will soon find that the evangelical scheme is this : -God , fore- seeing the fatal apostasy into which the whole human race would fall , did not determine to deal in a way of ...
... character of a revelation from God to abound in enigmas , will soon find that the evangelical scheme is this : -God , fore- seeing the fatal apostasy into which the whole human race would fall , did not determine to deal in a way of ...
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... character ; his greatest solicitude is to be " a fellow worker with " God , and a fellow heir with the saints : " and im- pelled by the joint influence of delight and self - abase- ment , he may be ready to exclaim , with Baxter , " O ...
... character ; his greatest solicitude is to be " a fellow worker with " God , and a fellow heir with the saints : " and im- pelled by the joint influence of delight and self - abase- ment , he may be ready to exclaim , with Baxter , " O ...
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... character of persons of the most exalted rank . Blessed be God , there are those " Who wear a coronet and pray : ' there are also monarchs who delight in acknowledging their allegiance to the King of kings , and whose piety is to them a ...
... character of persons of the most exalted rank . Blessed be God , there are those " Who wear a coronet and pray : ' there are also monarchs who delight in acknowledging their allegiance to the King of kings , and whose piety is to them a ...
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... character is to be supported by laughing " indiscriminately at all the symptoms of religion ; the " one to evince that his courage is not sapped by con- " science , the other to make the best advantage of his " instinct of catching at ...
... character is to be supported by laughing " indiscriminately at all the symptoms of religion ; the " one to evince that his courage is not sapped by con- " science , the other to make the best advantage of his " instinct of catching at ...
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Page 17 - Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 98 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Page 307 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Page 3 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 314 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment ; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great ; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man ; for the judgment is God's : and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Page 315 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 268 - And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Page 315 - Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God : and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid .of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Page 98 - But unto the son He saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever : a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of Thy kingdom.
Page 299 - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world...