An Inquiry Into the Comparative Moral Tendency of Trinitarian and Unitarian Doctrines: In a Series of Letters to the Rev. Dr. Miller, of PrincetonWells and Lilly, 1823 - 418 pages |
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... obedience and holiness , 184 . LETTER IV . General Remarks on the Doctrine of Atonement , with a brief out- line of the Opinions of Unitarians on this Subject . Object and importance of the doctrine , 186. Charge against Unitarians con ...
... obedience and holiness , 184 . LETTER IV . General Remarks on the Doctrine of Atonement , with a brief out- line of the Opinions of Unitarians on this Subject . Object and importance of the doctrine , 186. Charge against Unitarians con ...
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... obedience and right practice , open the same vivid prospects of fu- ture glory to the righteous , and of future suffering and despair to the wicked . Such are the nature and grounds of your severe judgment , respecting the faith and ...
... obedience and right practice , open the same vivid prospects of fu- ture glory to the righteous , and of future suffering and despair to the wicked . Such are the nature and grounds of your severe judgment , respecting the faith and ...
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... obedience , repentance , reformation , and a holy life . We are not hence to infer , that the trinity is an error of no consequence . All error is injurious . Of truth we can say with certainty , that it will always lead to good ends ...
... obedience , repentance , reformation , and a holy life . We are not hence to infer , that the trinity is an error of no consequence . All error is injurious . Of truth we can say with certainty , that it will always lead to good ends ...
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... obedience of his laws ; the moment you suppose him to be God , the example and the motive vanish . Much ingenuity has been exercised in attempts to remove this difficulty , by striving to make it appear , * Heb . ii . 17 , iv . 15 ...
... obedience of his laws ; the moment you suppose him to be God , the example and the motive vanish . Much ingenuity has been exercised in attempts to remove this difficulty , by striving to make it appear , * Heb . ii . 17 , iv . 15 ...
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... obedience and holiness . If any thing will subdue the hardness of the sinner's heart , and awaken him to a sense of the folly and danger of sin ; if any thing will quicken the sensibility of conscience , and impress the laws of heaven ...
... obedience and holiness . If any thing will subdue the hardness of the sinner's heart , and awaken him to a sense of the folly and danger of sin ; if any thing will quicken the sensibility of conscience , and impress the laws of heaven ...
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Page 106 - For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Page 32 - So the Father is God, the Son is God : and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods : but one God.
Page 124 - Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Page 206 - We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings...
Page 297 - ALL, those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call by his word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ...
Page 255 - Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.
Page 314 - The rest of mankind, God •was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 413 - Do you believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice? 2. Do you sincerely receive and adopt the confession of faith of this church, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures?
Page 100 - Take away this persecuting, burning, cursing, damning of men for not subscribing to the words of men as the words of God ; require of Christians only to believe Christ, and to call no man master but Him only...
Page 181 - Christ not risen : and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God ; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ : whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.