The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.D., Sometime Rector of St. Giles's in the Fields, Volume 5Clarendon Press, 1826 |
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... contrary reasons , and bandied to and fro by cross and opposite importunities . For now his soul , acquiescing in God , as in its proper place and element , doth no more dispute , no longer waves between two loadstones ; but being [ in ] ...
... contrary reasons , and bandied to and fro by cross and opposite importunities . For now his soul , acquiescing in God , as in its proper place and element , doth no more dispute , no longer waves between two loadstones ; but being [ in ] ...
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... contrary ; and yet we acknowledge his will is as kind and benign to us as ours is to ourselves . Why then , which of the two wills do we think is the wisest ? God's , sure , we will all acknowledge . Well then , is it not much safer for ...
... contrary ; and yet we acknowledge his will is as kind and benign to us as ours is to ourselves . Why then , which of the two wills do we think is the wisest ? God's , sure , we will all acknowledge . Well then , is it not much safer for ...
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... contrary to his command , I run from a certain benefit to a certain mischief . But while I submit my will to God's , I am guided by God's wisdom ; and in every genuine act of obedi- ence , I am as infallible as omniscience itself ...
... contrary to his command , I run from a certain benefit to a certain mischief . But while I submit my will to God's , I am guided by God's wisdom ; and in every genuine act of obedi- ence , I am as infallible as omniscience itself ...
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... contrary to another . For between a spiritual heaven and a carnal mind , a divine heaven and a devilish mind , there is an irreconcileable distance ; and for such a mind to live happily upon such a heaven , is as impossible in the ...
... contrary to another . For between a spiritual heaven and a carnal mind , a divine heaven and a devilish mind , there is an irreconcileable distance ; and for such a mind to live happily upon such a heaven , is as impossible in the ...
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... contrary to all the acts of our heavenly fruition and enjoyment . For that which God designs in all his commands is to educate and train up our nature for heaven , to discipline and exercise it in the beatifical acts of the heavenly ...
... contrary to all the acts of our heavenly fruition and enjoyment . For that which God designs in all his commands is to educate and train up our nature for heaven , to discipline and exercise it in the beatifical acts of the heavenly ...
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Page 347 - 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 269 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Page 278 - In this was manifested the love of GOD towards us, because that GOD sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved GOD, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 367 - CAN a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
Page 83 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Page 92 - Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing : let them not feed, nor drink water : but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God : yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Page 321 - ... the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation ; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their torment, ascendeth up for ever and ever : and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Page 3 - Then said Jesus unto His disciples, If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
Page 292 - 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 138 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.