The Works of President Edwards, Volume 5James Black & Son, 1817 - Congregational churches |
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... wonderful work of God afforded a great increase of gospel light to the church , hereby it had a clearer manifestation of a future state , and of the glorious reward of the saints in heaven . We are told , 2 Tim , i . 10. That life and ...
... wonderful work of God afforded a great increase of gospel light to the church , hereby it had a clearer manifestation of a future state , and of the glorious reward of the saints in heaven . We are told , 2 Tim , i . 10. That life and ...
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... wonderful redeeming power and grace , so that the gates of hell could not prevail against it . Thus I have shown how God carried on the great affair of redemption ; how the building went on during this first period , from the fall of ...
... wonderful redeeming power and grace , so that the gates of hell could not prevail against it . Thus I have shown how God carried on the great affair of redemption ; how the building went on during this first period , from the fall of ...
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... wonderfully preserving that family of which the Redeemer was to proceed , when all the rest of the world was drowned ... wonderful type of the redemption of Christ , of that redemption that is sealed by the baptism of water , and is so ...
... wonderfully preserving that family of which the Redeemer was to proceed , when all the rest of the world was drowned ... wonderful type of the redemption of Christ , of that redemption that is sealed by the baptism of water , and is so ...
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... the general corruption . Although God had lately wrought so wonderfully for the deliverance of his church , and had shewn so great mercy towards it , as for its sake even to destroy all the rest 40 PERIOD I. HISTORY OF REDEMPTION .
... the general corruption . Although God had lately wrought so wonderfully for the deliverance of his church , and had shewn so great mercy towards it , as for its sake even to destroy all the rest 40 PERIOD I. HISTORY OF REDEMPTION .
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... wonderfully preserved Abraham and Lot , Isaac and Jacob , and their families , amongst them , though they were few in number , and they might quickly have destroyed them ; which is taken notice of as a wonderful instance of God's pre ...
... wonderfully preserved Abraham and Lot , Isaac and Jacob , and their families , amongst them , though they were few in number , and they might quickly have destroyed them ; which is taken notice of as a wonderful instance of God's pre ...
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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.