Calvinistic Controversy: Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election, and Several Numbers on the Same Subject, Originally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal |
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... natural ability in all men to serve God and get to heaven , will help this difficulty . For allowing , in the argument , that the reprobates have ability to serve God and gain heaven , without grace , and in spite of God's decree ...
... natural ability in all men to serve God and get to heaven , will help this difficulty . For allowing , in the argument , that the reprobates have ability to serve God and gain heaven , without grace , and in spite of God's decree ...
Page 49
... natural nor moral ability to serve God , nor makes it possible for him to be saved , it follows that the atonement is made only for the elect . But as this is contrary to the word of God , the doctrine that leads to this conclusion must ...
... natural nor moral ability to serve God , nor makes it possible for him to be saved , it follows that the atonement is made only for the elect . But as this is contrary to the word of God , the doctrine that leads to this conclusion must ...
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... natural ability to understand it , ( and therefore , Calvinism itself being judge , we are not criminal , ) or it is because the teachers of Cal- vinism have not had natural ability to make it plain . But if Calvinism is not essentially ...
... natural ability to understand it , ( and therefore , Calvinism itself being judge , we are not criminal , ) or it is because the teachers of Cal- vinism have not had natural ability to make it plain . But if Calvinism is not essentially ...
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... natural ability to receive salvation , although he laboured under an invincible moral inability , which would for ever keep him from Christ until drawn by irresistible grace . This discovery led to other refine- ments in language , so ...
... natural ability to receive salvation , although he laboured under an invincible moral inability , which would for ever keep him from Christ until drawn by irresistible grace . This discovery led to other refine- ments in language , so ...
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... natural ability to convert him- self and get to heaven without grace . The two pillars of the new system are , 1. " Sin is not a propagated property of the human soul , but consists wholly in moral exercise . " 2. " Sin is not the 92 ...
... natural ability to convert him- self and get to heaven without grace . The two pillars of the new system are , 1. " Sin is not a propagated property of the human soul , but consists wholly in moral exercise . " 2. " Sin is not the 92 ...
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Page 159 - THE condition of man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith and calling upon God : Wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God, by Christ, preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 7 - According as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Page 159 - Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam — as the Pelagians do vainly talk — but it is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam ; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the Flesh lusteth always contrary to the Spirit; and therefore, in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 38 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 26 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 31 - 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.
Page 27 - Then were they in fact chosen and taken out of the world ; " elect" (saith St. Paul) " through belief of the truth :" or (as St. Peter expresses it) " elect according to the foreknowledge of God, through sanctification of the Spirit.
Page 18 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words : Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain...
Page 231 - But as many as received Him, to them gave He the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on His Name : Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Page 174 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.