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... surely be also admitted , that a man may , by various bonds , -both bonds of nature and bonds of grace , -be attached to a particular community ; that he may still see not a little in it which he esteems good , and worthy of being ...
... surely be also admitted , that a man may , by various bonds , -both bonds of nature and bonds of grace , -be attached to a particular community ; that he may still see not a little in it which he esteems good , and worthy of being ...
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... surely the Spirit , personally considered , cannot , in any propriety of speech , be called a rule . There is , I admit , a figurative sense , in which one man may be said to be a rule to another , his example and authority being meant ...
... surely the Spirit , personally considered , cannot , in any propriety of speech , be called a rule . There is , I admit , a figurative sense , in which one man may be said to be a rule to another , his example and authority being meant ...
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... Surely this was admitting the Old Testament Scriptures to be a legitimate test of his doctrine . Who questions that ? you may say that which we insist on is , their not being the only or the primary test . I answer , if by a test is to ...
... Surely this was admitting the Old Testament Scriptures to be a legitimate test of his doctrine . Who questions that ? you may say that which we insist on is , their not being the only or the primary test . I answer , if by a test is to ...
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... surely , will be so pitifully weak as to adduce Paul's reference to the saying of the poet , Menander , as a proof of it ! -We have to observe , secondly , that to make this description of inward light the standard of divine ...
... surely , will be so pitifully weak as to adduce Paul's reference to the saying of the poet , Menander , as a proof of it ! -We have to observe , secondly , that to make this description of inward light the standard of divine ...
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... surely the object of their faith , or the thing believed : it was no more than the mode of its communication to the mind . When it is said " Their example can be no ways applicable to ' us , unless we believe in God as they did ; that ...
... surely the object of their faith , or the thing believed : it was no more than the mode of its communication to the mind . When it is said " Their example can be no ways applicable to ' us , unless we believe in God as they did ; that ...
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Page 201 - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Page 149 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon. they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 100 - Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Page 257 - He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Page 243 - But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see : and they that have not heard shall understand.
Page 60 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Page 302 - O send out thy light and thy truth : let them lead me ; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Page 64 - THAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life ; (for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us...
Page 160 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 148 - And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see ; and that they which see might be made blind.