Symbolism: Or, Exposition of the Doctrinal Differences Between Catholics and Protestants as Evidenced by Their Symbolical Writings

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Edward Dunigan, 1844 - 575 pages

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Page 500 - To me belongs all actual and all possible good, all created and uncreated beauty, all that eye hath seen or imagination conceived ; and more than that, for eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive what God hath prepared for them that love Him.
Page 177 - BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Page 476 - The form of this reply has undoubtedly much, that is objectionable; for, we are expressly required to put off the old man, and to put on the new one.
Page 385 - Until we all meet into the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ.
Page 368 - But the Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments rightly administered.
Page 289 - Come to me all you that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you.
Page 478 - And, in fact, every believer, till he comes to glory, works for as well as from life. "3. We have received it as a maxim, that 'a man is to do nothing in order to justification.
Page 478 - That even adultery and murder do not hurt the pleasant children, but rather work for their good : God sees no sin in believers, whatever sin they may commit. My sins may displease God, my person is always acceptable to Him. Though I should outsin Manasses, I should not be less a pleasant child, because God always views me in Christ. Hence, in the midst of adulteries, murders, and incests, He can address me with," thou art all fair, my love, my undefiled; there is no spot in thee.
Page 439 - I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever : yea and the bread which 1 will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
Page 180 - ... to hope. Hence the forgiveness of sins for Christ's sake, is undoubtedly a remission of the guilt and the punishment, which he hath taken and borne upon himself; but it is likewise the transfusion of his spirit to us, so that we enter into a. full vital communion with the second Adam, in like manner as we had with the first. There can be no doubt, that the transition from the life of the flesh to the life of the spirit, as above described, cannot ordinarily be sudden; that, on the contrary, the...

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