The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index, Volume 2Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1844 |
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... understanding . But then the understanding must be taken in a large sense , as including the whole faculty of perception or apprehension , and not merely what is called reason or judgment . If by the dictate of the understanding is ...
... understanding . But then the understanding must be taken in a large sense , as including the whole faculty of perception or apprehension , and not merely what is called reason or judgment . If by the dictate of the understanding is ...
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... page says , " the word preferring seems best to express the act of volition ; " but adds , that " it does it not precisely ; ⚫ Human Understanding . Edit . 7. vol . i . p . 197 . Vol . II . 1 : for ( says he ) though a man would.
... page says , " the word preferring seems best to express the act of volition ; " but adds , that " it does it not precisely ; ⚫ Human Understanding . Edit . 7. vol . i . p . 197 . Vol . II . 1 : for ( says he ) though a man would.
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... they may not persuade him but yet his Will and Desire do not run counter . The thing which he wills , : * Human Understanding , vol . i . p . 203 , 204 . the very same he desires ; and he does not 2 FREEDOM OF THE WILL .
... they may not persuade him but yet his Will and Desire do not run counter . The thing which he wills , : * Human Understanding , vol . i . p . 203 , 204 . the very same he desires ; and he does not 2 FREEDOM OF THE WILL .
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... understanding , or perceiving faculty . Nothing can n induce or invite the mind to will or act any thing , any further than it is per- ceived , or is some way or other in the mind's view ; for what is wholly unperceived , and perfectly ...
... understanding , or perceiving faculty . Nothing can n induce or invite the mind to will or act any thing , any further than it is per- ceived , or is some way or other in the mind's view ; for what is wholly unperceived , and perfectly ...
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... understanding . But then the understanding must be taken in a large sense , as including the whole faculty of perception or apprehension , and not merely what is called reason or judgment . If by the dictate of the understanding is ...
... understanding . But then the understanding must be taken in a large sense , as including the whole faculty of perception or apprehension , and not merely what is called reason or judgment . If by the dictate of the understanding is ...
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Page 216 - 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, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Page 69 - 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.
Page 322 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 75 - For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Page 406 - 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. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 225 - When he gave to the sea his decree that the waters should not pass his commandment. When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 600 - Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Page 68 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, And will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, And give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles ; To open the blind eyes, To bring out the prisoners from the prison, And them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Page 164 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 210 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.