The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life ...G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830 |
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... signify the manner of event by some other name . Even in many things which are seen in the material and inanimate world , which do not obviously come to pass according to any settled course , men do not call the manner of the event by ...
... signify the manner of event by some other name . Even in many things which are seen in the material and inanimate world , which do not obviously come to pass according to any settled course , men do not call the manner of the event by ...
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... signify only that which has a positive efficiency or influence to produce a thing , or bring it to pass . But there are many things which have no such positive productive influence : which yet are Causes in this respect , that they have ...
... signify only that which has a positive efficiency or influence to produce a thing , or bring it to pass . But there are many things which have no such positive productive influence : which yet are Causes in this respect , that they have ...
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... signify , that I am sensible , there are some , who , when they talk of Liberty of the Will as consisting in Indifference , express themselves as though they would not be understood to mean the In- difference of the inclination or ...
... signify , that I am sensible , there are some , who , when they talk of Liberty of the Will as consisting in Indifference , express themselves as though they would not be understood to mean the In- difference of the inclination or ...
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... signify something that is good : men are habituated to un- derstand by it the same as honest and upright ; which terms excite an idea of something good in the strictest and highest sense ; good in the sight of Him , who sees not only ...
... signify something that is good : men are habituated to un- derstand by it the same as honest and upright ; which terms excite an idea of something good in the strictest and highest sense ; good in the sight of Him , who sees not only ...
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... signify this , then doubtless common sense requires men being the authors of their own acts of will , in order to their being es- teemed worthy of praise or dispraise on account of them . And common sense teaches that they must be the ...
... signify this , then doubtless common sense requires men being the authors of their own acts of will , in order to their being es- teemed worthy of praise or dispraise on account of them . And common sense teaches that they must be the ...
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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...