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The term is used by Calvinists - not to convey the idea of producing a superadded physical power , or natural faculty , but - to represent a positive and actual agency by the Holy Spirit , enabling the person to exercise the powers he ...
The term is used by Calvinists - not to convey the idea of producing a superadded physical power , or natural faculty , but - to represent a positive and actual agency by the Holy Spirit , enabling the person to exercise the powers he ...
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The end of divine operations must be to produce a virtuous principle , or in the language of the prophet , to “ take away the heart of stone , and to give a heart of flesh SECT . III . 35 On Divine Operations .
The end of divine operations must be to produce a virtuous principle , or in the language of the prophet , to “ take away the heart of stone , and to give a heart of flesh SECT . III . 35 On Divine Operations .
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He discovers the evil of sin and the beauty of holiness - he is wise unto salvation - he chooses an end worthy of Gud to reveal , and adopts the means prescribed for obtaining it - in proportion to the principle produced by divine ...
He discovers the evil of sin and the beauty of holiness - he is wise unto salvation - he chooses an end worthy of Gud to reveal , and adopts the means prescribed for obtaining it - in proportion to the principle produced by divine ...
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Spirit of promise ; " The order to be here * noticed is this , --- first , the hearing of the word ; secondly , belief produced by that ; thirdly , the communication of the Spirit in consequence of that belief .
Spirit of promise ; " The order to be here * noticed is this , --- first , the hearing of the word ; secondly , belief produced by that ; thirdly , the communication of the Spirit in consequence of that belief .
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There can be no belief without a testimony ; but surely the thing believed can no more produce the principle or spirit of faith , than the act of reasoning can produce the reasoning faculty , or the act of volition produce the will .
There can be no belief without a testimony ; but surely the thing believed can no more produce the principle or spirit of faith , than the act of reasoning can produce the reasoning faculty , or the act of volition produce the will .
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| Title | A Defence of Modern Calvinism: Containing an Examination of the Bishop of Lincoln's Work, Entitled a Refutation of Calvinism |
| Author | Edward Williams |
| Publisher | J. Black, 1812 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 28 Apr 2015 |
| Length | 544 pages |
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