The Works of President Edwards, Volume 5James Black & Son, 1817 - Congregational churches |
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... religion in the world , that there should be a family separated from all others . It proved to be high time to take this course , lest the church of Christ should wholly be carried away with the apostacy . For Abraham's own country and ...
... religion in the world , that there should be a family separated from all others . It proved to be high time to take this course , lest the church of Christ should wholly be carried away with the apostacy . For Abraham's own country and ...
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... religion might be upheld ; and there being now no written word , they by degrees , in a great measure , lost the true religion , and borrowed the idolatry of Egypt ; and the greater part of the people fell away to the worship of their ...
... religion might be upheld ; and there being now no written word , they by degrees , in a great measure , lost the true religion , and borrowed the idolatry of Egypt ; and the greater part of the people fell away to the worship of their ...
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... religion , and of being over - run with the idolatry of their neighbours . God now , therefore , by this redemption , separated them as a nation from all others , to subsist by themselves in their own political and ecclesiastical state ...
... religion , and of being over - run with the idolatry of their neighbours . God now , therefore , by this redemption , separated them as a nation from all others , to subsist by themselves in their own political and ecclesiastical state ...
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... religion was kept up for a while among some of the rest of Abraham's posterity , besides the family of Jacob ; and also in some of the posterity of Nahor , as we have instances in Job , and his three friends , and Elihu . The land of Uz ...
... religion was kept up for a while among some of the rest of Abraham's posterity , besides the family of Jacob ; and also in some of the posterity of Nahor , as we have instances in Job , and his three friends , and Elihu . The land of Uz ...
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... religion in the Israelitish church , as in that generation ; and as , in the Christian church , religion was in its most flourishing circumstances in the day of its espousals , in the apostles ' days , so it seems to have been with the ...
... religion in the Israelitish church , as in that generation ; and as , in the Christian church , religion was in its most flourishing circumstances in the day of its espousals , in the apostles ' days , so it seems to have been with the ...
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Page 13 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 247 - 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.
Page 406 - God : and the twelve were with him, and certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, and Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.
Page 405 - As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 87 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, And shall call his name Immanuel.
Page 400 - But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity : for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Page 217 - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee ; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee : for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Page 376 - For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God ; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Page 532 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 530 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.