Six Sermons on Some of the Most Important Doctrines of Christianity: To which are Added Five Sermons on Occasional Subjects |
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... mind of man is enabled to form but an inade- quate idea ; of this he can only judge by its energies and operations . We are expressly forbidden , by the law of our Creator , to make any personal representation of our God : he is not the ...
... mind of man is enabled to form but an inade- quate idea ; of this he can only judge by its energies and operations . We are expressly forbidden , by the law of our Creator , to make any personal representation of our God : he is not the ...
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... mind , it is evidently necessary he must be a free agent if he had no power of doing wrong , he could have no merit in doing right ; he would have been a mere machine ; he would have resembled inert matter , which cannot act but as it ...
... mind , it is evidently necessary he must be a free agent if he had no power of doing wrong , he could have no merit in doing right ; he would have been a mere machine ; he would have resembled inert matter , which cannot act but as it ...
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... mind capable of , and inclined to , corruption ; and ( horrid to relate ) the first overt instance of it was , the murder of an amiable brother : Was this the kind of man , can we suppose , that God created ? This propensity to what is ...
... mind capable of , and inclined to , corruption ; and ( horrid to relate ) the first overt instance of it was , the murder of an amiable brother : Was this the kind of man , can we suppose , that God created ? This propensity to what is ...
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... minds upon them , by diligent research , but to find them out and cavil at them , and to maintain our own crude and hasty judgment , against the well digested opinions of learned and pious men . " The great vice of the present day ...
... minds upon them , by diligent research , but to find them out and cavil at them , and to maintain our own crude and hasty judgment , against the well digested opinions of learned and pious men . " The great vice of the present day ...
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... mind , and with all thy " strength , and thy neighbour as thyself , " is a sufficient summary of the Mosaic law , at once concise and comprehensive ; as our Saviour says , " on these two command- 66 ments hang all the law and the pro ...
... mind , and with all thy " strength , and thy neighbour as thyself , " is a sufficient summary of the Mosaic law , at once concise and comprehensive ; as our Saviour says , " on these two command- 66 ments hang all the law and the pro ...
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Page 54 - GOD, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.
Page 21 - God for us : nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others : (for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world) but now once, in the end of the world, hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Page 123 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh : how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God...
Page 19 - But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people : the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest...
Page 85 - For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me ; him shall ye hear in all things, whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Page 15 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac : and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead ; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Page 55 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.
Page 91 - Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Page 147 - Again ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not, forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths...
Page 183 - But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head and wash thy face ; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret : and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.