A Treatise on Free Agency: Maintaining that the Immutability of the Divine Nature is Perfectly Compatible with the Moral Freedom of the Intellectual World; Also, A Dissertation on the Mosaic Account of the Creation; Comprising Its Most Remarkable Internal Evidences Respecting the Antiquity of the Earth, &c |
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... thing inconsistent with its very constitution , in which He was pleased originally to implant a spiritual similitude of his own unfettered mind . In If , therefore , in any of your conceptions , God may appear either chained or ...
... thing inconsistent with its very constitution , in which He was pleased originally to implant a spiritual similitude of his own unfettered mind . In If , therefore , in any of your conceptions , God may appear either chained or ...
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... events would not have proved less certain , if it were possible for them to have been unforeknown ! Foreknowledge , in fact , cannot of itself , or as an immediate cause , be the source of any thing ex- ON FREE - AGENCY . 5.
... events would not have proved less certain , if it were possible for them to have been unforeknown ! Foreknowledge , in fact , cannot of itself , or as an immediate cause , be the source of any thing ex- ON FREE - AGENCY . 5.
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... thing ex- cept what is altogether peculiar to the divine mind . And the like may be deduced , as to all other attributes of the same eternally and inces- santly energetic class . But at the very thresh- old of our inquiry , numerous ...
... thing ex- cept what is altogether peculiar to the divine mind . And the like may be deduced , as to all other attributes of the same eternally and inces- santly energetic class . But at the very thresh- old of our inquiry , numerous ...
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... of God , could not be the cause of any thing created , or of any operation thereof ; if it would require an eternity of operation to pro- duce its effects . For under this supposition , its effects must either co 10 ON FREE - AGENCY .
... of God , could not be the cause of any thing created , or of any operation thereof ; if it would require an eternity of operation to pro- duce its effects . For under this supposition , its effects must either co 10 ON FREE - AGENCY .
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... thing created , or of any operation thereof ; -its effects in the former instance being eternal ; or in the latter case , being such as could never exist , as it is not possible for any effect whatever to prove subsequent to an eternity ...
... thing created , or of any operation thereof ; -its effects in the former instance being eternal ; or in the latter case , being such as could never exist , as it is not possible for any effect whatever to prove subsequent to an eternity ...
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Page 51 - But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Page 196 - Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? declare if thou hast understanding.
Page 113 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon. they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 94 - And we indeed justly ; for we receive the due reward of our deeds : but this man hath done nothing amiss.
Page 104 - I HAVE loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us ? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: Yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau, And laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Page 108 - But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth ; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
Page 95 - For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Page 110 - And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
Page 104 - Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places ; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down ; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.
Page 99 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.