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... suppose I need have no hesitation in stating , what was then generally recognized , that in this work the tone of opposition to the prevailing doctrines of Orthodoxy was more explicit , decided , and fundamental than had been common ...
... suppose I need have no hesitation in stating , what was then generally recognized , that in this work the tone of opposition to the prevailing doctrines of Orthodoxy was more explicit , decided , and fundamental than had been common ...
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... suppose there will be little dispute respecting the class in which they are to be reckoned . We have no doubt , that what we consider the corruptions of Christianity are the cause of unbelief in some , and of indifference and inat ...
... suppose there will be little dispute respecting the class in which they are to be reckoned . We have no doubt , that what we consider the corruptions of Christianity are the cause of unbelief in some , and of indifference and inat ...
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... suppose , with very little attention . to its force or meaning . If there be any one who seriously thinks it true , who thinks that we regard no other duties than those of man to man , and rely on no other motives to virtue than what ...
... suppose , with very little attention . to its force or meaning . If there be any one who seriously thinks it true , who thinks that we regard no other duties than those of man to man , and rely on no other motives to virtue than what ...
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... suppose no attempt could be more hopeless , than the attempt to undeceive him . But , to notice another charge , it is said that we deprive religion of all its doctrines which may give joy or consolation , that our principles afford no ...
... suppose no attempt could be more hopeless , than the attempt to undeceive him . But , to notice another charge , it is said that we deprive religion of all its doctrines which may give joy or consolation , that our principles afford no ...
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... suppose there are some men , who receive what is most essen- tial in it , who yet may be shocked at the horri- ble absurdity of language in which parts of it are sometimes expressed . Let such men define their notions , and see how far ...
... suppose there are some men , who receive what is most essen- tial in it , who yet may be shocked at the horri- ble absurdity of language in which parts of it are sometimes expressed . Let such men define their notions , and see how far ...
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Page 170 - 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 185 - 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 191 - 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 146 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than- violence ; for this was all thy care, To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse...
Page 200 - I have trodden the wine-press alone ; and of the people there was none with me : for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and 1 will stain all my raiment.
Page 185 - The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity, all mankind descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him in his first transgression.
Page 243 - But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.
Page 178 - So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell ; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great towards them as to those that are actually suffering: the executions of the fierceness of his wrath in hell, and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is...
Page 244 - I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian religion who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human l* Novum Organum lib. ii. aph. 29. reason. Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure.
Page 179 - The God that holds you over the pit of hell much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked...