Dialogues, Letters, and Essays, on Various Subjects: To which is Annexed, An Essay on TruthS. Swift, 1811 - 251 pages |
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... respecting the nature of true holiness , as to make any essential mistake about it . Whether I can determine , with metaphysical accuracy , the different component parts of it , or not , yet , if I be a true Chris- tian , I shall feel ...
... respecting the nature of true holiness , as to make any essential mistake about it . Whether I can determine , with metaphysical accuracy , the different component parts of it , or not , yet , if I be a true Chris- tian , I shall feel ...
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... respecting what truth is , as to make any essential mistake about it . Whether I can deter- mine the question with accuracy , or not , yet , if I be a Christian , the truth dwelleth in me . As to the precise degree in which we must ...
... respecting what truth is , as to make any essential mistake about it . Whether I can deter- mine the question with accuracy , or not , yet , if I be a Christian , the truth dwelleth in me . As to the precise degree in which we must ...
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... respect to the foundation laid in Zion , will , if God give him not re- pentance to the acknowledging of the truth , err to his eternal overthrow . Crisp . Does not this last species of error seem near- ly related to unbelief ? Gai . I ...
... respect to the foundation laid in Zion , will , if God give him not re- pentance to the acknowledging of the truth , err to his eternal overthrow . Crisp . Does not this last species of error seem near- ly related to unbelief ? Gai . I ...
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... respect to divine things , as that they do not receive them , and cannot know them ? Gai . It will ; nor is there any thing more surprising in it than that a mercenary character should be a stranger to the joys of benevolence , or a ...
... respect to divine things , as that they do not receive them , and cannot know them ? Gai . It will ; nor is there any thing more surprising in it than that a mercenary character should be a stranger to the joys of benevolence , or a ...
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... respect to keeping or breaking the divine law ? Gai . I do . We are only required to love God with all our strength ; or to consecrate all our powers to his service , be they great or small . Crisp . Why then do we not keep the law ...
... respect to keeping or breaking the divine law ? Gai . I do . We are only required to love God with all our strength ; or to consecrate all our powers to his service , be they great or small . Crisp . Why then do we not keep the law ...
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Page 245 - loose livers, they will not be at a loss to find preachers after their own heart... Thus error is propagated, and thus it was propagated from a very early period. " The time will come, (said Paul to Timothy,) when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,,
Page 252 - errors of the age, in all probability, attaches to them ; and though it were otherwise, yet they are directed to carry it benevolently towards others who may err ; " In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God, peradventure, will give them repentance, to the acknowledging of the truth*." Finally : There is an important difference between
Page 235 - that they would have been exhorted to " look diligently, lest any man should fail of the grace of God ; lest any root of bitterness springing up should trouble them, and thereby many be defiled ; lest there should be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold hie birthright;
Page 44 - to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ ; neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the school authors say,) deserve grace of congruity : Yea, rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin*.
Page 82 - the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them-; but because they are spiritually discerned ? A. spiritual or holy temper of heart is that in the reception of gospel truth, which a relish for poetry is in entering into the spirit of a Milton, or a
Page 208 - of the world had been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in., heavenly places, might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God*.
Page 213 - Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—Surely I come quickly.
Page 215 - dead shall live, my deceased, they shall arise : awake and sing ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the deadf.
Page 213 - the coming of the day of God—And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to
Page 110 - grace, then is it no more of works ; otherwise grace is no more grace : but if it be of works, then is it no more grace ; otherwise