The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life ...G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830 |
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... decrees against them from the Mandarin . This ingenious people , when their houses are on fire , to the imminent peril of their wooden gods , hold them to the flames , in hopes of extinguish- ing them by it . The Tyrians were a wise ...
... decrees against them from the Mandarin . This ingenious people , when their houses are on fire , to the imminent peril of their wooden gods , hold them to the flames , in hopes of extinguish- ing them by it . The Tyrians were a wise ...
Page 252
... decree of fate , I should have had just cause of resentment against the gods , for hurrying me away from my parents , my wife and my children , in the flower of my youth , by an untime- ly death . " § 21. Socrates , Plato , and Cicero ...
... decree of fate , I should have had just cause of resentment against the gods , for hurrying me away from my parents , my wife and my children , in the flower of my youth , by an untime- ly death . " § 21. Socrates , Plato , and Cicero ...
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... decree , consistent with the freedom of men's will , which is a doctrine utterly rejected by the generality of that sort of men who deny the eternity of hell torments . If it be said , that God has not absolutely de- termined the ...
... decree , consistent with the freedom of men's will , which is a doctrine utterly rejected by the generality of that sort of men who deny the eternity of hell torments . If it be said , that God has not absolutely de- termined the ...
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... , those things that come to pass universally , of which all mankind are the subjects , in temporal death , which is so dreadful to nature . MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS . CONCERNING THE DIVINE DECREES IN GENERAL , 404 MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS ,
... , those things that come to pass universally , of which all mankind are the subjects , in temporal death , which is so dreadful to nature . MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS . CONCERNING THE DIVINE DECREES IN GENERAL , 404 MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS ,
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... decree them . 2. The Arminians ridicule the distinction between the secret and revealed will of God , or , more properly expressed , the dis- tinction between the decree and law of God ; because we say he may decree one thing , and ...
... decree them . 2. The Arminians ridicule the distinction between the secret and revealed will of God , or , more properly expressed , the dis- tinction between the decree and law of God ; because we say he may decree one thing , and ...
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Page 319 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page 556 - 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.
Page 507 - And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
Page 554 - Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: 43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Page 397 - ... the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation ; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their torment, ascendeth up for ever and ever : and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Page 470 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 486 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 154 - And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Page 558 - And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming : even him , whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish ; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 577 - The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.