The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 5S. Converse, 1829 |
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... practice 253 XIII . Christian practice is the chief sign to others .... 273 XIV . Christian practice is the chief sign to ourselves .. 285 APPENDIX TO THE TREATISE ON THE AFFECTIONS . LETTER 1. To Mr. GILLESPIE , in answer to objections ...
... practice 253 XIII . Christian practice is the chief sign to others .... 273 XIV . Christian practice is the chief sign to ourselves .. 285 APPENDIX TO THE TREATISE ON THE AFFECTIONS . LETTER 1. To Mr. GILLESPIE , in answer to objections ...
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... practice , because they are not affected with what they hear . I am bold to assert , that there never was any considerable change wrought in the mind or conversation of any person , by any thing of a religious nature that ever he read ...
... practice , because they are not affected with what they hear . I am bold to assert , that there never was any considerable change wrought in the mind or conversation of any person , by any thing of a religious nature that ever he read ...
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... practice , and of the dreadfulness of sin , as committed against a God of terrible majesty , infinite holiness and hatred of sin , and strict justice in punishing of it . But some persons have frightful apprehensions of hell - a ...
... practice , and of the dreadfulness of sin , as committed against a God of terrible majesty , infinite holiness and hatred of sin , and strict justice in punishing of it . But some persons have frightful apprehensions of hell - a ...
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... practice appear to him in their awful blackness ; they look dreadful ; and it often appears a very mys- terious thing , that any grace can be consistent with such corrup- tion , or should be in such a heart . But a false hope hides cor ...
... practice appear to him in their awful blackness ; they look dreadful ; and it often appears a very mys- terious thing , that any grace can be consistent with such corrup- tion , or should be in such a heart . But a false hope hides cor ...
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... practice . And consequenly , an error may be the occasion of those truly holy exercises that are from the infallible Spirit of God . And if so , it is certainly too much for us to determine , to how great a degree the Spirit of God may ...
... practice . And consequenly , an error may be the occasion of those truly holy exercises that are from the infallible Spirit of God . And if so , it is certainly too much for us to determine , to how great a degree the Spirit of God may ...
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Page 291 - In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Page 405 - Now the just shall live by faith : but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition ; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Page 521 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 535 - And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
Page 121 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry; Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.
Page 289 - My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
Page 553 - At that day ye shall ask in my name : and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you : for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Page 463 - AND after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
Page 487 - 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 522 - And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord : that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.