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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... produces in saints be morally good and praiseworthy , we see not why the evil exercises of sinners would not be crim- inal , though produced in the same way . Nor is the question about the manner , how moral evil first gained existence ...
... produces in saints be morally good and praiseworthy , we see not why the evil exercises of sinners would not be crim- inal , though produced in the same way . Nor is the question about the manner , how moral evil first gained existence ...
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... produce volition , without this inward di- vine influence . The mind can only look at these motives ; it cannot move a step to choose them , until this choice is excited by a positive direct influ- ence on the heart . The justice of ...
... produce volition , without this inward di- vine influence . The mind can only look at these motives ; it cannot move a step to choose them , until this choice is excited by a positive direct influ- ence on the heart . The justice of ...
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... produce any effect , or at least any moral effect ; or that it is impossible he should give or impart any such energy or activity ? In this case I would ask them , how they came by this knowl- edge , and how they prove the truth of such ...
... produce any effect , or at least any moral effect ; or that it is impossible he should give or impart any such energy or activity ? In this case I would ask them , how they came by this knowl- edge , and how they prove the truth of such ...
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... producing its proper effects , but the preservation of these energies , and affording them opportunity and ... produce moral evil , and this fact we readily admit . This therefore is not the point at issue . But it lies in this ...
... producing its proper effects , but the preservation of these energies , and affording them opportunity and ... produce moral evil , and this fact we readily admit . This therefore is not the point at issue . But it lies in this ...
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... produced without any such positive divine efficien- cy . In this view of the question , it is impertinent to say , they ... produce the exercises or volitions , which pertain to their different characters . Accordingly , I have heard the ...
... produced without any such positive divine efficien- cy . In this view of the question , it is impertinent to say , they ... produce the exercises or volitions , which pertain to their different characters . Accordingly , I have heard the ...
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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...