Last Thoughts on Important Subjects: In Three Parts . I. Man's Liability to Sin. II. Supplemental Illustrations. III. Man's Capacity to ObeyBrown, Shattuck, and Company, 1833 - 323 pages |
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... course have been educated in some serious errors of opinion ; nor is it improbable that such has been the fact in every denomination . What then can be more obvious than that it is the duty of adult persons , carefully to inquire for ...
... course have been educated in some serious errors of opinion ; nor is it improbable that such has been the fact in every denomination . What then can be more obvious than that it is the duty of adult persons , carefully to inquire for ...
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... course must also be thus liable . No considerate person will venture to deny , that all the animal and intellectual properties which God bestowed on the first parents of our race , were favors , and the fruits of divine wisdom and be ...
... course must also be thus liable . No considerate person will venture to deny , that all the animal and intellectual properties which God bestowed on the first parents of our race , were favors , and the fruits of divine wisdom and be ...
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... course be regarded as a kind of physical and hereditary calamity . But if we re- gard our liability to sin as having resulted from the favors of God to us , —and our sinfulness as con- sisting in a voluntary abuse of these favors ; sin ...
... course be regarded as a kind of physical and hereditary calamity . But if we re- gard our liability to sin as having resulted from the favors of God to us , —and our sinfulness as con- sisting in a voluntary abuse of these favors ; sin ...
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... course excusable in proportion to the extent of the disability or privation . If in the way supposed in the popular theory , men have now but half the understanding or the ability to perform the will of God , which they would have ...
... course excusable in proportion to the extent of the disability or privation . If in the way supposed in the popular theory , men have now but half the understanding or the ability to perform the will of God , which they would have ...
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... course be regarded as some excuse for such words or actions as are sup- posed to proceed from that evil source ? That it should be otherwise in the view of those who adopt the hypothesis , seems to me impossible ; and in making this ...
... course be regarded as some excuse for such words or actions as are sup- posed to proceed from that evil source ? That it should be otherwise in the view of those who adopt the hypothesis , seems to me impossible ; and in making this ...
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Page 165 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart : and thou shalt" teach them diligently unto thy children," and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 144 - They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation. IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
Page 61 - Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Page 26 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man : but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 135 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds ; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him...
Page 68 - When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Page 143 - The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression.
Page 62 - Therefore, as by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation ; even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification •of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners ; so by the obedience of one, shall many be made righteous.
Page 169 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 62 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one. Jesus Christ...