Select Practical Theology of the Seventeenth Century: Comprising the Best Practical Works of the Great English Divines, and Other Congenial Authors of that AgeChauncey Goodrich, 1830 - Theology |
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... thoughts ; questions and problems of like weighty importance , very often , with those which , the above- named author ( Sen. de Brev . vit . ) tells us , this disease among the Greeks prompted them to trouble themselves about , as ...
... thoughts ; questions and problems of like weighty importance , very often , with those which , the above- named author ( Sen. de Brev . vit . ) tells us , this disease among the Greeks prompted them to trouble themselves about , as ...
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... soon he can again reduce him to a very paroxysm of anguish and despair . It would discover us to have very vile and low thoughts of God , if we did not judge it altogether unanswerable to his perfections , to design no THE ...
... soon he can again reduce him to a very paroxysm of anguish and despair . It would discover us to have very vile and low thoughts of God , if we did not judge it altogether unanswerable to his perfections , to design no THE ...
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... thoughts were pitched upon this . ) Only withal let it be considered , how much more easy it is , to imagine another sense , and suppose it possible , than to disprove this , or evince it impossible . How far probable it is , must be ...
... thoughts were pitched upon this . ) Only withal let it be considered , how much more easy it is , to imagine another sense , and suppose it possible , than to disprove this , or evince it impossible . How far probable it is , must be ...
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... thoughts and discourse to it . And we have it here represented to us in all the particulars that can be supposed to have any nearer interest in the business of blessedness , or to be more intimate and intrinsical thereunto . For ( the ...
... thoughts and discourse to it . And we have it here represented to us in all the particulars that can be supposed to have any nearer interest in the business of blessedness , or to be more intimate and intrinsical thereunto . For ( the ...
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... thoughts such a state of this glory ( in forming that indeterminate notion we have now of it ) as may remier it ( though confessedly above the measure of our present understandings as to a distinct knowledge of it ) not manifestly ...
... thoughts such a state of this glory ( in forming that indeterminate notion we have now of it ) as may remier it ( though confessedly above the measure of our present understandings as to a distinct knowledge of it ) not manifestly ...
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Page 299 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son ? And again, when he bringeth in the first Begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
Page 368 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Page 458 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Page 391 - ... of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you...
Page 408 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Page 89 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Page 491 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 504 - There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
Page 300 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, And his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 381 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.