Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravity, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or MiseryW. Collins, 1830 - 526 pages |
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... reason on all subjects that come before us , whether physical or metaphysical , material or mental . When a statement of good is propounded to us , on evidence which carries our assent , we subject it instantly to a process of reasoning ...
... reason on all subjects that come before us , whether physical or metaphysical , material or mental . When a statement of good is propounded to us , on evidence which carries our assent , we subject it instantly to a process of reasoning ...
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... reason . It is so to ex- ercise our understandings on the objects of our pre- vious knowledge , as to adjust and arrange them ac- cording to their several properties and affinities , that our view of them , individually and combined ...
... reason . It is so to ex- ercise our understandings on the objects of our pre- vious knowledge , as to adjust and arrange them ac- cording to their several properties and affinities , that our view of them , individually and combined ...
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... reason has access . It is for the sake of it , and its felicities and adora- tions , that we are made to differ from the beasts that perish , and created capable of thought and reflection . Although its topics be numerous and somewhat ...
... reason has access . It is for the sake of it , and its felicities and adora- tions , that we are made to differ from the beasts that perish , and created capable of thought and reflection . Although its topics be numerous and somewhat ...
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... reason ; for , just because they are revealed as mysteries , on evidence which proves them true , it is reason's office to believe them on that ground alone . Nor do we favour the impious tenet , that reason , in her present moral be ...
... reason ; for , just because they are revealed as mysteries , on evidence which proves them true , it is reason's office to believe them on that ground alone . Nor do we favour the impious tenet , that reason , in her present moral be ...
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... reason is required religiously to traverse after her own manner , and in the exercise of her own skill , that , in this way , the truth revealed may have its proper and constitutional place in the soul of the man who receives it . And ...
... reason is required religiously to traverse after her own manner , and in the exercise of her own skill , that , in this way , the truth revealed may have its proper and constitutional place in the soul of the man who receives it . And ...
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Page 248 - For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance ; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
Page 485 - Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat ; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink ; I was a stranger and ye took me not in ; naked and ye clothed me not ; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 553 - ... 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 53 - What shall we say then ? Is the law sin ? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Page 389 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Page 468 - And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Page 343 - If there be a messenger with him, An interpreter, one among a thousand, To show unto man his uprightness : Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit : I have found a ransom.
Page 553 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself : But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. " Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Page 392 - Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ? for riches certainly make themselves wings ; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Page 140 - For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.