Memoirs of Simon Episcopius: ... who was Condemned by the Synod of Dort as a Dangerous Heretic, and ... was Sentenced to Perpetual Banishment by the Civil Authorities of Holland ... : to which is Added, a Brief Account of the Synod of Dort and of the Sufferings to which to Followers of Arminius Were Exposed ... |
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Page 197 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
Page 242 - ... the high and mighty lords, the states general of the United Netherlands...
Page 61 - Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to "Whom be glory for ever and ever, amen
Page 64 - Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
Page 89 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixt fate, freewill, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 12 - I would myself carry wood to burn my own son, were he such a wretch as thou.
Page 204 - When they shall look upon the damned, and see their misery, how will heaven ring with the praises of God's justice towards the wicked, and his grace towards the saints ! And with how much greater enlargement of heart will they praise Jesus Christ, their Redeemer, that ever he was pleased to set his love upon them, his dying love!
Page 530 - ... either founds his persuasion absolutely on nothing, or on an immediate revelation, — on a preternatural discovery of a matter of fact on which the Scriptures are totally silent. This absurd notion of unconditional promises, by severing the assurance of salvation from all the fruits of the Spirit, from every trace and feature of a renovated nature and a regenerate state, opens the widest possible door to licentiousness.
Page 352 - Sibrandus, who had debated with him while he was yet a beardless boy, — " but in whom all the elements were so mixed, that Nature might stand up and say,
Page 204 - The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners," " Wrath upon the Wicked to the uttermost," " The Future Punishment of the Wicked," and other things of that sort? Nay, can you find a worthy woman, of any considerable culture, who will read the fourteenth chapter of Numbers, and declare that a true picture of the God she worships? Only a she-dragon...