A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian ethics, (or private duties)Richard Edwards, 1825 |
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... Object . I. You have written too many books already . Who do you think hath so little to do as to read them all ? Is it not pride and self - conceitedness to think that your scrib- blings are worthy to be read ? and that the world hath ...
... Object . I. You have written too many books already . Who do you think hath so little to do as to read them all ? Is it not pride and self - conceitedness to think that your scrib- blings are worthy to be read ? and that the world hath ...
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... Object . II . Your writings differing from the common judgment , have already caused offence to the godly . ' · Answ . 1. To the godly that were of a contrary opinion only . Sores that will not be healed , use to be exasperated by the ...
... Object . II . Your writings differing from the common judgment , have already caused offence to the godly . ' · Answ . 1. To the godly that were of a contrary opinion only . Sores that will not be healed , use to be exasperated by the ...
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... Object . IV . Your ecclesiastical cases are dangerously reconciling , tending to abate men's zeal against error . ' Answ . The world hath long enough escaped the danger of peace and reconciliation . It had been well if they had as long ...
... Object . IV . Your ecclesiastical cases are dangerously reconciling , tending to abate men's zeal against error . ' Answ . The world hath long enough escaped the danger of peace and reconciliation . It had been well if they had as long ...
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... Object . VI . You confound your reader by curiosity of distinctions . " Answ . I. If they are vain or false , shame them by detect- ing it , or you shame yourselves by blaming them , when you cannot shew the error . Expose not ...
... Object . VI . You confound your reader by curiosity of distinctions . " Answ . I. If they are vain or false , shame them by detect- ing it , or you shame yourselves by blaming them , when you cannot shew the error . Expose not ...
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... object , if he had not purchased you the promise and gift of pardon and salvation to all believers . Objection . But , perhaps , you will say , " That if we had loved God , without a Saviour , we should have been saved ; for God cannot ...
... object , if he had not purchased you the promise and gift of pardon and salvation to all believers . Objection . But , perhaps , you will say , " That if we had loved God , without a Saviour , we should have been saved ; for God cannot ...
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Page 19 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 52 - But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it ; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while : for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
Page 400 - Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee ; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Page 436 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Page 110 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord GOD will help me ; therefore shall I not be confounded : therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Page 372 - And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.
Page 162 - And he said, This will I do : I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Page 162 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 88 - For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.