Wilson's Plea in the Case of Lyman Beecher, D.D.: Made Before the Synod of Cincinnati, October, 1835R.P. Brooks., 1837 - 120 pages |
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... moral obligation ; and the moment any cause should render love to God impossible , that moment the obligation to love , would cease , and man could no more have a depraved nature , than any other animal . A de- praved nature can no more ...
... moral obligation ; and the moment any cause should render love to God impossible , that moment the obligation to love , would cease , and man could no more have a depraved nature , than any other animal . A de- praved nature can no more ...
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... moral obligation . 3d . That where there is a want of ability to love God , obliga tion to love ceases , whatever may be the cause . 4th . That the sinner is able to do what God commands , and which being done would save the soul . 5th ...
... moral obligation . 3d . That where there is a want of ability to love God , obliga tion to love ceases , whatever may be the cause . 4th . That the sinner is able to do what God commands , and which being done would save the soul . 5th ...
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... moral government of God . 9th . That this has been the received doctrine of the orthodox church in all ages . By total depravity I mean the utter inability of fallen man to recover himself or do that which is spiritually good , to ...
... moral government of God . 9th . That this has been the received doctrine of the orthodox church in all ages . By total depravity I mean the utter inability of fallen man to recover himself or do that which is spiritually good , to ...
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... moral , was invented . Those who adopted this distinction , meant by natural ability , merely the possession of physical powers , and opportunities for their employment in the service of God . By moral ability , they meant a mind or ...
... moral , was invented . Those who adopted this distinction , meant by natural ability , merely the possession of physical powers , and opportunities for their employment in the service of God . By moral ability , they meant a mind or ...
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... moral power , then every volition would be of a moral nature and then brutes would be moral beings , for they possess will or the power of choice , and like all sentient beings , they make choice of happiness in preference to misery ...
... moral power , then every volition would be of a moral nature and then brutes would be moral beings , for they possess will or the power of choice , and like all sentient beings , they make choice of happiness in preference to misery ...
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Page 68 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 72 - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, GOD shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, GOD shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 76 - A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Page 68 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 103 - AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel : only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Page 26 - They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was IMPUTED, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
Page 20 - By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.
Page 90 - Which of you convinceth me of sin ? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words : ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Page 75 - They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
Page 114 - Adam's sin, and in a hereditary depravity ; and this continued to be the received doctrine of the churches of New England until after the time of Edwards. He adopted the views of the Reformers on the subject of original sin, as consisting in the imputation of Adam's sin, and a depraved nature transmitted by descent. But, after him, this...