An Inquiry Into the Popular Notion of an Unoriginated, Infinite and Eternal Prescience: With a Preface Containing a Dialogue Between the Author and One of His ReadersW. Baynes, 1828 |
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... render my meaning a little more intelligible . I mean by competency , something that may possibly be adequate and successful , but at the same time , may possibly fail . I mean by infallibility , that which must of necessity be ...
... render my meaning a little more intelligible . I mean by competency , something that may possibly be adequate and successful , but at the same time , may possibly fail . I mean by infallibility , that which must of necessity be ...
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... rendered absolutely impossible at the present moment , and that which is possible to - day may be rendered absolutely impossible by to - morrow : and so on ad infinitum : and therefore , although all things which will ever be possible ...
... rendered absolutely impossible at the present moment , and that which is possible to - day may be rendered absolutely impossible by to - morrow : and so on ad infinitum : and therefore , although all things which will ever be possible ...
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... render one of these possibilities an everlasting reality , and annihilate the other possibility for ever and ever . until one of those events shall actually transpire , the issue of my life will be as much a contingency to the infinite ...
... render one of these possibilities an everlasting reality , and annihilate the other possibility for ever and ever . until one of those events shall actually transpire , the issue of my life will be as much a contingency to the infinite ...
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... rendered contingent , and if he may discover properties in things which are allowed to have no real existence in the things themselves ; then he may possibly know a truth to be a falsehood , or a falsehood to be a truth ; evil to be ...
... rendered contingent , and if he may discover properties in things which are allowed to have no real existence in the things themselves ; then he may possibly know a truth to be a falsehood , or a falsehood to be a truth ; evil to be ...
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... render an eternal pre- science as powerless as blank ignorance itself . In that case , the issues which it would certainly anticipate , must be as perfectly fortuitous as though they were no longer the objects of a certain knowledge ...
... render an eternal pre- science as powerless as blank ignorance itself . In that case , the issues which it would certainly anticipate , must be as perfectly fortuitous as though they were no longer the objects of a certain knowledge ...
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Page 144 - Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
Page 178 - Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you : searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Page 164 - But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up. take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
Page 156 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
Page 148 - For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Page 165 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 143 - For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host : and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to come upon us.
Page 149 - Behold my servant, whom I have chosen ; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased ; I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.
Page 148 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words ; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles, and wonders, and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know...
Page 152 - When the even, was come, they brought unto him many, that were possessed with devils : and he cast out the spirits, with his word, and healed all, that were sick : *' that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, " Himself took our infirmities, and bare our