 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, Joseph Samuel Exell, Charles Neil - 1889 - 528 páginas
...given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning : that is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace, and conversion the actual fixing on God, as the terminus ad quern. One gives posse agere, the other actu... | |
 | Edward Henry Perowne - 1892 - 144 páginas
...the change which is produced in the individual soul by the operation of the Holy Ghost, when a man is brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace. Compare Mark x. 6; xiii. 19; Rom. i. 20: and especially Rev. iv. n with Eph. ii. 10; iv. 24. 16. as... | |
 | Thomas Willing Balch - 1907 - 502 páginas
...of his obedience and death. He was, also, the substitute and surety of believers; and when they are brought out of a state of nature, into a state of grace, his obedience and sufferings are considered by God, the Judge, as their own. But if they do not persevere,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1843 - 224 páginas
...of God. Now, this call is a special work of the Spirit, by the ministry of the word, whereby a man is brought out of a state of nature, into a state of grace; "out of darkness into light, from being vessels of wrath, to be made heirs of life." I grant, that... | |
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In regeneration there is a power conferred ; conversion is the exercise of this power. In regeneration there is given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning ; that is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into... 
