An Appeal to the Serious and Candid Professors of Christianity: On the Following Topics, Viz., I. The Use of Reason in Matters of Religion. II. The Power of Man to Do the Will of God. III. Original Sin. IV. Election and Reprobation. V. The Dignity of Christ. VI. Atonement for Sin by the Death of Christ. VII. A Concise History of the Rise of Those Doctrines |
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... truth , I shall be so happy as to bring you to entertain the same views of these things with myself , we shall rejoice together ; and if , after all that I may be able to ad- vance , you should still think differently from me , I trust ...
... truth , I shall be so happy as to bring you to entertain the same views of these things with myself , we shall rejoice together ; and if , after all that I may be able to ad- vance , you should still think differently from me , I trust ...
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... truths con- tained in the Scriptures ; and what faculty can we employ for this purpose , but that which is commonly called reason , whereby we are capable of thinking , reflecting , comparing , and judging of things ? 1 Cor . xiv . 20 ...
... truths con- tained in the Scriptures ; and what faculty can we employ for this purpose , but that which is commonly called reason , whereby we are capable of thinking , reflecting , comparing , and judging of things ? 1 Cor . xiv . 20 ...
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... truth as it is in Jesus , and obey it in the love thereof . Do not think that , by recommending the use of reason , I am about to decry the Scriptures . My appeal shall be to both , upon every subject on which I address you ; and I ...
... truth as it is in Jesus , and obey it in the love thereof . Do not think that , by recommending the use of reason , I am about to decry the Scriptures . My appeal shall be to both , upon every subject on which I address you ; and I ...
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... truth which is so clearly and fully revealed , that it is not possible for men to refuse their assent to it ; or else it would , no doubt , have been long ago expunged from our creed , as utterly irreconcileable with the more favourite ...
... truth which is so clearly and fully revealed , that it is not possible for men to refuse their assent to it ; or else it would , no doubt , have been long ago expunged from our creed , as utterly irreconcileable with the more favourite ...
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... truth here contended for , I shall briefly consider and reply to the principal of them . It is often said that Christ speaks of his humanity only , whenever he represents himself as inferior to the Father , and dependent upon him . But ...
... truth here contended for , I shall briefly consider and reply to the principal of them . It is often said that Christ speaks of his humanity only , whenever he represents himself as inferior to the Father , and dependent upon him . But ...
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Page 67 - Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot : who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Page 41 - Him that overcometh, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out : and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God : and I will write upon him my new name.
Page 57 - When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God...
Page 34 - For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Page 60 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Page 40 - Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God : whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Page 47 - 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 16 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Page 80 - Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay; but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Page 59 - Then said the Jews unto him ; Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ? Jesus said unto them ; Verily, verily, I say unto you : Before Abraham was, I am.