An Humble Inquiry Into the Rules of the Word of God: Concerning the Qualifications Requisite to a Complete Standing and Full Communion in the Visible Christian Church. By the Late Jonathan Edwards, ... With an Appendix by Mr. FoxcroftHugh Inglis. Sold by M. Gray, 1790 - 221 pages |
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... common belief that Jefus is the Meffiah , or a belief of the being of a God . It is the credible profeffion and vifibility of these things , that is the church's rule in this cafe . Chriftian piety or godlinefs may be a qualification ...
... common belief that Jefus is the Meffiah , or a belief of the being of a God . It is the credible profeffion and vifibility of these things , that is the church's rule in this cafe . Chriftian piety or godlinefs may be a qualification ...
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... common virtues , which do not in the leaft change the nature , and mortify the corruption of the heart ; as is held by all orthodox divines , and as Mr. Stoddard in particular abundantly infifted . However , if any body difputes it , I ...
... common virtues , which do not in the leaft change the nature , and mortify the corruption of the heart ; as is held by all orthodox divines , and as Mr. Stoddard in particular abundantly infifted . However , if any body difputes it , I ...
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... common grace , or moral fincerity ( as it is called ) , but faving grace . - Yet there are many other clear evi- dences of the fame thing , which may in fome meas fure appear in all the following part of this difcourfe .--- Wherefore ...
... common grace , or moral fincerity ( as it is called ) , but faving grace . - Yet there are many other clear evi- dences of the fame thing , which may in fome meas fure appear in all the following part of this difcourfe .--- Wherefore ...
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... common faith , it would not have been any vifible entering into the covenant of grace ; for a common faith is not the condition of that covenant ; nor would there properly have been any covenanting in the cafe . If we fuppofe , the ...
... common faith , it would not have been any vifible entering into the covenant of grace ; for a common faith is not the condition of that covenant ; nor would there properly have been any covenanting in the cafe . If we fuppofe , the ...
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... common among that people ; God declares them to be an hypocritical nation , Ifa . x . 6 . And it is certain , this was the cafe with them in the wildernefs ; they there profeffed that refpect to God which they had not ; as is evident by ...
... common among that people ; God declares them to be an hypocritical nation , Ifa . x . 6 . And it is certain , this was the cafe with them in the wildernefs ; they there profeffed that refpect to God which they had not ; as is evident by ...
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Page 91 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 90 - Christ : whom having not seen, ye love ; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory : receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Page 66 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer...
Page 111 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations : that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
Page 28 - And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Page 36 - For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
Page 86 - For none of us liveth to himself, and none dieth to himself : for whether we live, we live unto the Lord, or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Whether we live therefore or die we are the Lord's.
Page 32 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 82 - Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God,, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
Page 84 - Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.