The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life ...G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830 |
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... give notice , that though I generally speak of that doctrine , concerning Free - will and moral Agency , which I oppose , as an Arminian doctrine ; yet I would not be understood as asserting , that every Divine or Author , whom I have ...
... give notice , that though I generally speak of that doctrine , concerning Free - will and moral Agency , which I oppose , as an Arminian doctrine ; yet I would not be understood as asserting , that every Divine or Author , whom I have ...
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... give some instances of this moral Inability . - A woman of great honour and chastity may have a moral Inability to prostitute herself to her slave . A child of great love and duty to his parents , may be thus unable to kill his father ...
... give some instances of this moral Inability . - A woman of great honour and chastity may have a moral Inability to prostitute herself to her slave . A child of great love and duty to his parents , may be thus unable to kill his father ...
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... give itself up to what is vulgarly called accident , * by deter- mining to touch that square which happens to be most in view , which my eye is especially upon at that moment , or which happens to be then most in my mind , or which I ...
... give itself up to what is vulgarly called accident , * by deter- mining to touch that square which happens to be most in view , which my eye is especially upon at that moment , or which happens to be then most in my mind , or which I ...
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... give itself up to accident , by touching that which shall be most in the eye , or the idea of which shall be most prevalent in the mind , & c . The mind is not absolutely indifferent whether it proceeds by this rule or no ; but chooses ...
... give itself up to accident , by touching that which shall be most in the eye , or the idea of which shall be most prevalent in the mind , & c . The mind is not absolutely indifferent whether it proceeds by this rule or no ; but chooses ...
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... give due attention to these two re- marks , especially the former , as being of the utmost importance in the controversy . If he be pleased to examine , with this view , the most popular advocates for the liberty of indifference , he ...
... give due attention to these two re- marks , especially the former , as being of the utmost importance in the controversy . If he be pleased to examine , with this view , the most popular advocates for the liberty of indifference , he ...
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Page 462 - And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Page 442 - I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Page 435 - And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Page 475 - In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise...
Page 560 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 463 - As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Page 137 - Thus saith God, the Lord, he that created the heavens and stretched them out: he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it: he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein...
Page 505 - For until the law sin was in the world : but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of Him that was to come.
Page 137 - A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Page 149 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...