A Vindication of Some of the Most Essential Doctrines of the Reformation: Being a Reply to Objections Raised Against These Doctrines in a Late Publication, Entitled: "The Errors of Hopkinsianism Detected and Refuted; in Six Letters, by Nathan Bangs ..." Addressed to the Author of the Present WorkAshbel Stoddard, 1817 - 264 pages |
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... suppose that this means , As it was writing , or about to be written by Judas . The quota- tion in John makes it evident , that one place where this had been written was Psal . xli . 9. By comparing all the Evangelists , we learn this ...
... suppose that this means , As it was writing , or about to be written by Judas . The quota- tion in John makes it evident , that one place where this had been written was Psal . xli . 9. By comparing all the Evangelists , we learn this ...
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... suppose man to be capable of willing or doing , without God's working in him both to will and to do ; or to suppose our moral actions were not determined by him , as much as the motion of the plan- ets . But when theology is the subject ...
... suppose man to be capable of willing or doing , without God's working in him both to will and to do ; or to suppose our moral actions were not determined by him , as much as the motion of the plan- ets . But when theology is the subject ...
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... suppose the Holy One should make an intelligent universe , which should be the whole of it , under the dominion of sin ; -or to suppose that the God of love should lay a plan , which should ensure misery to all his creatures that are ...
... suppose the Holy One should make an intelligent universe , which should be the whole of it , under the dominion of sin ; -or to suppose that the God of love should lay a plan , which should ensure misery to all his creatures that are ...
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... suppose that God has determined to bring many of them to repentance and to glory . Does this imply that God justifies the wicked while they remain wicked ; and that he takes them to heaven in their sins , because that while they are in ...
... suppose that God has determined to bring many of them to repentance and to glory . Does this imply that God justifies the wicked while they remain wicked ; and that he takes them to heaven in their sins , because that while they are in ...
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... suppose that God foreknows what might have been , in the same sense as he foreknows what will be ; i . e . he did not foreknow them both as events which would actually happen . But how came there to be any dif ference between the two ...
... suppose that God foreknows what might have been , in the same sense as he foreknows what will be ; i . e . he did not foreknow them both as events which would actually happen . But how came there to be any dif ference between the two ...
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Page 89 - For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Page 149 - I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles...
Page 81 - What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Page 153 - Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 151 - Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because he hath poured out his soul unto death : and he was numbered with the transgressors ; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Page 54 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Page 142 - Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven.
Page 68 - Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
Page 156 - They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Page 74 - But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth : 14 Whereunto He called you by our Gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.