A Series of Lectures Delivered in Park Street Church, Boston, on Sabbath EveningsNathaniel Willis, 1813 - 327 pages |
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... answer to the first class I re- mark , that in two things all beings agree , -in following their inclinations , and in finding their happiness , so far as they find it at all , in the grati- fication of their inclinations . The only ...
... answer to the first class I re- mark , that in two things all beings agree , -in following their inclinations , and in finding their happiness , so far as they find it at all , in the grati- fication of their inclinations . The only ...
Page 117
... answer : by reasoning you may compose the passions of an angry man without at all changing his disposition . After you have calmed the risings of enmity against God , I ask , is the dominion of the limited affections in the least aba ...
... answer : by reasoning you may compose the passions of an angry man without at all changing his disposition . After you have calmed the risings of enmity against God , I ask , is the dominion of the limited affections in the least aba ...
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... answer- ed in what was said of the influence of light . But whatever the Spirit does , He certainly does not per- form impossibilities . If in the nature of things nothing can weaken the enmity that does not first déthrone the love of ...
... answer- ed in what was said of the influence of light . But whatever the Spirit does , He certainly does not per- form impossibilities . If in the nature of things nothing can weaken the enmity that does not first déthrone the love of ...
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... answer to their prayers : But if such prayers are answered it must be without the influence of Christ ; of course they might have been answered if Christ had never died . Why then did He die ? If one prayer of a sinner could ascend to ...
... answer to their prayers : But if such prayers are answered it must be without the influence of Christ ; of course they might have been answered if Christ had never died . Why then did He die ? If one prayer of a sinner could ascend to ...
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... answer is , 66 ASK IN FAITH , NOTHING WAVERING . " It is said indeed that " the kingdom of heaven suffereth vio- lence , and the violent take it by force ; " but if you have yet to learn what violence is meant , an Old- Testament saint ...
... answer is , 66 ASK IN FAITH , NOTHING WAVERING . " It is said indeed that " the kingdom of heaven suffereth vio- lence , and the violent take it by force ; " but if you have yet to learn what violence is meant , an Old- Testament saint ...
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Page 26 - Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Page 39 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 15 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God ; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
Page 211 - God: and I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good ; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
Page 171 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 128 - For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Page 29 - 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 36 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which 'God hath prepared for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Page 41 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 171 - According as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.