A Body of Divinity...: With Notes, Original and Selected, Volume 1W.W. Woodward, 1814 |
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... creatures which glorify God , by answering the end of their creation , though they know it not : but intelligent creatures , and parti- cularly men , are said to glorify God actively ; and this they do by admiring and adoring his divine ...
... creatures which glorify God , by answering the end of their creation , though they know it not : but intelligent creatures , and parti- cularly men , are said to glorify God actively ; and this they do by admiring and adoring his divine ...
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... creatures in the world . ( d ) P 2. These creatures could not make themselves , for that which is nothing cannot act ; if it makes itself , it acts before it ( d ) “ As for our own existence , we perceive it so plainly , and so ...
... creatures in the world . ( d ) P 2. These creatures could not make themselves , for that which is nothing cannot act ; if it makes itself , it acts before it ( d ) “ As for our own existence , we perceive it so plainly , and so ...
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... creature , and contrary to the fixed laws of nature ; and therefore is too great a work for a creature , who can do nothing but in a natural way , even as an artificer , though he can build an house with fit materials , yet he cannot ...
... creature , and contrary to the fixed laws of nature ; and therefore is too great a work for a creature , who can do nothing but in a natural way , even as an artificer , though he can build an house with fit materials , yet he cannot ...
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... creatures could not produce themselves , they must be created by one who is not a creature . Now , if there be no medium between God and the creature , or between infinite and finite , between a self - existent or unde- rived , and a ...
... creatures could not produce themselves , they must be created by one who is not a creature . Now , if there be no medium between God and the creature , or between infinite and finite , between a self - existent or unde- rived , and a ...
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... creatures . The clouds send down rain that moistens the earth , and makes it fruitful ; and this is not poured forth by ... creature . The sun doth not enlighten or give warmth to the world , or the clouds or air refresh the earth at our ...
... creatures . The clouds send down rain that moistens the earth , and makes it fruitful ; and this is not poured forth by ... creature . The sun doth not enlighten or give warmth to the world , or the clouds or air refresh the earth at our ...
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Popular passages
Page 367 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Page 338 - Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Page 36 - He shall not be afraid of evil tidings : his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
Page 126 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 336 - Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
Page 267 - 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.
Page 504 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 304 - I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. " Surely," shall one say, " in the Lord have I righteousness and strength :" even to him shall men come ; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Page 530 - As the godly consideration of predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up' their mind to high and heavenly things...
Page 42 - For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.