A Theodicy: Or, Vindication of the Divine Glory, as Manifested in the Constitution and Government of the Moral World |
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... EVIL , OR SIN , CONSISTENT WITH THE HOLI- NESS OF GOD ...... ............... ........... 31 CHAPTER I. - THE SCHEME OF NECESSITY DENIES THAT MAN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF SIN ....... ..................................
... EVIL , OR SIN , CONSISTENT WITH THE HOLI- NESS OF GOD ...... ............... ........... 31 CHAPTER I. - THE SCHEME OF NECESSITY DENIES THAT MAN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF SIN ....... ..................................
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... consistent with the goodness of God .............. 250 § III . - The imputation of sin not consistent with human , much less with the divine goodness ... . .................. ... ............. § IV . The true ends , or final causes , of ...
... consistent with the goodness of God .............. 250 § III . - The imputation of sin not consistent with human , much less with the divine goodness ... . .................. ... ............. § IV . The true ends , or final causes , of ...
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... consistent with the goodness of God . 312 § II - The Scripture doctrine of election consistent with the impartiality of the divine goodness . 317 § III . The Calvinistic scheme of election inconsistent with the impartiality and glory of ...
... consistent with the goodness of God . 312 § II - The Scripture doctrine of election consistent with the impartiality of the divine goodness . 317 § III . The Calvinistic scheme of election inconsistent with the impartiality and glory of ...
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... CONSISTENT WITH THE HOLINESS OF GOD . What Time this World's great Workmaister did cast , To PART I THE EXISTENCE OF MORAL EVIL, OR SIN, CONSISTENT WITH THE HOLI- NESS OF ...............
... CONSISTENT WITH THE HOLINESS OF GOD . What Time this World's great Workmaister did cast , To PART I THE EXISTENCE OF MORAL EVIL, OR SIN, CONSISTENT WITH THE HOLI- NESS OF ...............
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... well known that both of them maintained the spirituality of God , as well as the reality of moral distinctions prior to all human laws . The second scheme of fatalism rises above the first in 34 [ Part L MORAL EVIL CONSISTENT.
... well known that both of them maintained the spirituality of God , as well as the reality of moral distinctions prior to all human laws . The second scheme of fatalism rises above the first in 34 [ Part L MORAL EVIL CONSISTENT.
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Page 20 - To ask or search, I blame thee not ; for heaven Is as the book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous works...
Page 29 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 113 - By nature free, not overruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity: Our voluntary service he requires, Not our necessitated; such with him Finds no acceptance, nor can find ; for how Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve Willing or no, who will but what the'y must By destiny, and can no other choose?
Page 30 - The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 204 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell ; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Page 132 - All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. Such I created all the ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood, and them who fail'd; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
Page 232 - But He, who knew what human hearts would prove, How slow to learn the dictates of his love, That, hard by nature and of stubborn will, A life of ease would make them harder still, In pity to the souls his grace design'd To rescue from the ruins of mankind, Call'd for a cloud to darken all their years, And said, ' Go spend them in the vale of tears.
Page 20 - Imports not, if thou reckon right; the rest From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide...
Page 241 - How long, speaking to those who are passing through it, how long, ye simple ones, will ye love folly, and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge ? Turn ye at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make known my words unto you.
Page 298 - But endless punishment! hopeless misery, through a duration to which the enormous terms above imagined, will be absolutely nothing ! I acknowledge my inability (I would say it reverently) to admit this belief, together with a belief in the divine goodness — the belief that " God is love," that his tender mercies are over all his works.