The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick, Volume 8 |
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... obedience ; seeing no obedience can be according to the law , unless it proceed from a sense of the commandment of God requiring it . It is true , Adam had not the law written upon tables of stone ; but it was written upon his mind ...
... obedience ; seeing no obedience can be according to the law , unless it proceed from a sense of the commandment of God requiring it . It is true , Adam had not the law written upon tables of stone ; but it was written upon his mind ...
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... obedience ; for to say that " the Lord gathereth where he hath not strawed , " is but the blasphemy of a wicked heart against so good and bountiful a God , Matt . xxv . 24-26 . From what has been said , it may be gathered , that the ...
... obedience ; for to say that " the Lord gathereth where he hath not strawed , " is but the blasphemy of a wicked heart against so good and bountiful a God , Matt . xxv . 24-26 . From what has been said , it may be gathered , that the ...
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... obedient even unto death . " And herein believers have the advantage of Adam , that they can never totally nor finally fall away from grace . Thus was man made originally righteous , being created in OF MAN'S ORIGINAL RIGHTEOUSNESS . 15.
... obedient even unto death . " And herein believers have the advantage of Adam , that they can never totally nor finally fall away from grace . Thus was man made originally righteous , being created in OF MAN'S ORIGINAL RIGHTEOUSNESS . 15.
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... obedience was the condition : life was the thing promised , and death the penalty . As for the condition , one great branch of the natural law was , that man should believe what- soever God revealed , and should do whatsoever he ...
... obedience was the condition : life was the thing promised , and death the penalty . As for the condition , one great branch of the natural law was , that man should believe what- soever God revealed , and should do whatsoever he ...
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... work and the promised reward . Before that covenant , man was bound to perfect obedience , in virtue of his natural dependence on God ; and death was naturally the wages of sin , which 18 OF MAN'S ORIGINAL HAPPINESS .
... work and the promised reward . Before that covenant , man was bound to perfect obedience , in virtue of his natural dependence on God ; and death was naturally the wages of sin , which 18 OF MAN'S ORIGINAL HAPPINESS .
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Page 155 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 155 - The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
Page 188 - Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God,, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
Page 460 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people...
Page 64 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Page 64 - Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 290 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool : his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him : thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him : the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
Page 308 - Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 349 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Page 364 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. " Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.