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 AgesSamuel T. Armstrong, 1820 - 132 páginas |
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... mean not to offend , but it appears to me , that the pride of reasoning and confi- dent speculation is as much the danger of re- ligious people in North America , as antinomian laxity and selfishness , is of those in Old Eng- land ...
... mean not to offend , but it appears to me , that the pride of reasoning and confi- dent speculation is as much the danger of re- ligious people in North America , as antinomian laxity and selfishness , is of those in Old Eng- land ...
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... means adapted ; but , then , if we would not misunderstand them , it must care- fully be observed , that in their view , no motives , means , instruments , or second causes , have any power to produce volition , without this inward di ...
... means adapted ; but , then , if we would not misunderstand them , it must care- fully be observed , that in their view , no motives , means , instruments , or second causes , have any power to produce volition , without this inward di ...
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... means in them- selves ? " Is this the idea , that means independently of God have no energy ? If so , who will contend with them ? Do they suppose that any man , who believes the Bible , would advance such an idea , as that God ever ...
... means in them- selves ? " Is this the idea , that means independently of God have no energy ? If so , who will contend with them ? Do they suppose that any man , who believes the Bible , would advance such an idea , as that God ever ...
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... means , there is great danger of their readers being misguided . According to their theory , means are absolutely nothing . Motives are no means of mov- ing rational creatures to act , and it is absurd for them to talk of them as means ...
... means , there is great danger of their readers being misguided . According to their theory , means are absolutely nothing . Motives are no means of mov- ing rational creatures to act , and it is absurd for them to talk of them as means ...
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... means to exe- cute his decrees , and yet he uses no means at all . To give you my views as differing from this theory . Suppose God creates an hand of mere lifeless clay . This hand he moves and causes to appear to do many things , but ...
... means to exe- cute his decrees , and yet he uses no means at all . To give you my views as differing from this theory . Suppose God creates an hand of mere lifeless clay . This hand he moves and causes to appear to do many things , but ...
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Página 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.
Página 70 - But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Página 64 - For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Página 83 - And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine : and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.
Página 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.
Página 19 - 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.
Página 106 - And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Página 85 - But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so. your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Página 88 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Página 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...