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... receive it . This is the unalterable state between God and the creature . Goodness , for ever and ever , can only belong to God , as essential to him , and inseparable from him , as his own unity . " God could not make the creature to ...
... receive it . This is the unalterable state between God and the creature . Goodness , for ever and ever , can only belong to God , as essential to him , and inseparable from him , as his own unity . " God could not make the creature to ...
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... received from him ; therefore , if it is to offer and send up to God affections , and aspirations , that are divine and godly , it must of necessity have the divine and godly nature , living and breathing in it . Can any thing reflect ...
... received from him ; therefore , if it is to offer and send up to God affections , and aspirations , that are divine and godly , it must of necessity have the divine and godly nature , living and breathing in it . Can any thing reflect ...
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... receive , is and can be nothing else but proud , rank enthusiasm . Now as infinitely absurd as this conclusion is , no one that condemns continual , immediate inspiration , as gross enthusiasm , can possibly do it with less ab- surdity ...
... receive , is and can be nothing else but proud , rank enthusiasm . Now as infinitely absurd as this conclusion is , no one that condemns continual , immediate inspiration , as gross enthusiasm , can possibly do it with less ab- surdity ...
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... Receive ye the Holy Ghost , & c . yet this also would not do ; they were still unable to preach , or bear witness to the truth as it is in Jesus . And the reason is , there was still a higher dispensation to come , which stood in such ...
... Receive ye the Holy Ghost , & c . yet this also would not do ; they were still unable to preach , or bear witness to the truth as it is in Jesus . And the reason is , there was still a higher dispensation to come , which stood in such ...
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... receive of mine , and shall shew it unto you : I said of mine , because all things that the Father hath are mine . " John xvi . Now when Christ had told them of the necessity of a higher state than that they were in , and the neces ...
... receive of mine , and shall shew it unto you : I said of mine , because all things that the Father hath are mine . " John xvi . Now when Christ had told them of the necessity of a higher state than that they were in , and the neces ...
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Page 39 - O GOD, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee ; mercifully grant that thy HOLY SPIRIT may in all things direct and rule our hearts, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord.
Page 93 - John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose : he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire...
Page 130 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Page 130 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 60 - And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
Page 100 - Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Page 123 - But when he had turned about, and looked on his disciples, he "rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, 'Satan ; for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
Page 6 - His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel : his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life ; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame ; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith and practice of the Christian world.
Page 89 - God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind, and with all his strength...
Page 8 - A Demonstration of the gross and fundamental errors of a late book, called, A plain account of the nature and end of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.