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... , in his attack on Christianity , sums up all his objections at the close . The first and greatest is this and I give it in his own words , 1 Cor . xii . 7 . though it is contrary to my practice , and opinion 30 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY .
... , in his attack on Christianity , sums up all his objections at the close . The first and greatest is this and I give it in his own words , 1 Cor . xii . 7 . though it is contrary to my practice , and opinion 30 CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY .
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... practice , and opinion of propriety , often to cite the cavils of unbelievers : " The idea or belief of a word of God existing in print , or in writing , or in speech , is inconsistent with itself , for reasons already assigned . These ...
... practice , and opinion of propriety , often to cite the cavils of unbelievers : " The idea or belief of a word of God existing in print , or in writing , or in speech , is inconsistent with itself , for reasons already assigned . These ...
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... practice , so particularly in our doubts , difficulties , distresses , and afflictions ; to beget joy , peace , and satisfaction in us , in all our performances , and in all our sufferings , whence the title of Comforter belongeth to ...
... practice , so particularly in our doubts , difficulties , distresses , and afflictions ; to beget joy , peace , and satisfaction in us , in all our performances , and in all our sufferings , whence the title of Comforter belongeth to ...
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... practice of virtue ; when he weighs with himself the necessity of practising every duty , and forsaking every kind of wickedness , in order to secure a good title to the promises of the gospel ; when he takes a view of those particular ...
... practice of virtue ; when he weighs with himself the necessity of practising every duty , and forsaking every kind of wickedness , in order to secure a good title to the promises of the gospel ; when he takes a view of those particular ...
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... practice . He cannot be very wrong in his notions , whilst he believes that man's will is neither so free , as without God's grace to do good , nor so enslaved , as not to be at liberty either to concur with or to resist that grace ...
... practice . He cannot be very wrong in his notions , whilst he believes that man's will is neither so free , as without God's grace to do good , nor so enslaved , as not to be at liberty either to concur with or to resist that grace ...
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Page 43 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 308 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 18 - The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree ; him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. And we are his witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Page 116 - No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him ; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Page 182 - Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue : whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises : that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 84 - Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
Page 305 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Page 129 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 197 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 298 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.