Dialogues, Letters and Essays on Various Subjects: To which is Annexed, an Essay on Truth: Containing an Inquiry Into Its Nature and Importance; with the Causes of Error, and Reasons of Its Being Permitted |
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... did him any real service , yet has the presumption to ex- pect his reward . Crisp , This distinction seems of great importance , as it serves to reconcile those scriptures which speak in favour of the law , and those which speak ( 35 )
... did him any real service , yet has the presumption to ex- pect his reward . Crisp , This distinction seems of great importance , as it serves to reconcile those scriptures which speak in favour of the law , and those which speak ( 35 )
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... reward . In these passages we must observe that God's gracious decla- rations and promises are not made to this or that degree of goodness , but to every or any degree of it : or rather , it is not the degree , but the nature of it ...
... reward . In these passages we must observe that God's gracious decla- rations and promises are not made to this or that degree of goodness , but to every or any degree of it : or rather , it is not the degree , but the nature of it ...
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... rewarding them . It appears to have been thus in the case of Ahab , when he humbled himself ; and the Ninevites , when they repented at the preaching of Jonah ; as also in the case of the Young Ruler in the gospel , whom our Lord is ...
... rewarding them . It appears to have been thus in the case of Ahab , when he humbled himself ; and the Ninevites , when they repented at the preaching of Jonah ; as also in the case of the Young Ruler in the gospel , whom our Lord is ...
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... reward men for their actions , not because he approved of them as actions of theirs , but merely because they tended ... rewarded was , that what he had done subserved the divine purposes in punishing Tyre for her insulting treatment ...
... reward men for their actions , not because he approved of them as actions of theirs , but merely because they tended ... rewarded was , that what he had done subserved the divine purposes in punishing Tyre for her insulting treatment ...
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... rewards and punishments , he must act from what is apparent in the lives of men , having no other medium by which to judge of the temper of their hearts ; but it is not so with respect to legisla- tion , or the formation of the laws ...
... rewards and punishments , he must act from what is apparent in the lives of men , having no other medium by which to judge of the temper of their hearts ; but it is not so with respect to legisla- tion , or the formation of the laws ...
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Page 252 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Page 82 - I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good ; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Page 93 - For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 93 - We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not ; but he that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
Page 72 - Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Page 217 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Page 104 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
Page 200 - For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man...
Page 110 - Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 'And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 254 - Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming : even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.