An Essay in which the Doctrine of a Positive Divine Efficiency: Exciting the Will of Men to Sin, as Held by Some Modern Writers, is Candidly Discussed, and Shewn to be 1. Unphilosophical. 2. Inconsistent with the Plain and Obvious Sense of the Holy Scriptures, and of Course a Departure from the Simplicity of the Gospel; and 3. A Novel Doctrine, Utterly Repugnant to the Faith of the Christian Church in All Past Ages |
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... created agents , instru- ments or second causes , an influence , energy , or ac- tivity , sufficient , under his upholding and all - controll- ing Providence , to produce any effect , or at least any moral effect ; or that it is ...
... created agents , instru- ments or second causes , an influence , energy , or ac- tivity , sufficient , under his upholding and all - controll- ing Providence , to produce any effect , or at least any moral effect ; or that it is ...
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... Creation and Providence . This is denominated the religion of nature , natural theol- ogy , moral philosophy , & c . The other is the volume of revelation . In this God has , by express and clear declarations , exhibited to our view ...
... Creation and Providence . This is denominated the religion of nature , natural theol- ogy , moral philosophy , & c . The other is the volume of revelation . In this God has , by express and clear declarations , exhibited to our view ...
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... creation . But one text of Scripture lev- els all the arguments of its self - confident advocates in the dust . In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . " Gen. i , 1 . It is a common thing for the most renowned chris ...
... creation . But one text of Scripture lev- els all the arguments of its self - confident advocates in the dust . In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth . " Gen. i , 1 . It is a common thing for the most renowned chris ...
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... created object or energy , yet cause and effect , in relation to the works of God , signify more than these philosophers will allow . But admitting for the sake of argument this notion to be perfectly correct , then nothing can be more ...
... created object or energy , yet cause and effect , in relation to the works of God , signify more than these philosophers will allow . But admitting for the sake of argument this notion to be perfectly correct , then nothing can be more ...
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... created agents , second causes , and instruments , as acting upon and exciting the minds of men . because , when the Scriptures represent God as har- dening the hearts of sinners , and turning them what way he will , it is a mere ...
... created agents , second causes , and instruments , as acting upon and exciting the minds of men . because , when the Scriptures represent God as har- dening the hearts of sinners , and turning them what way he will , it is a mere ...
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Page 82 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own : for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Page 62 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual. . . . For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 88 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Page 17 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 106 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Page 42 - 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 76 - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him; for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.
Page 44 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Page 93 - What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction...
Page 73 - Then answered Jesus, and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do : for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.