A Treatise on Various Subjects: Viz. I. On the Original Purity of Human Nature. ... XI. Of Communion with God, ... Wherein Various Difficult Cases of Conscience are Answered, ... By John Brine |
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... fuch Failure , and unlawful Acting . Confcience cannot accufe of Offence , farther than a Perception of what ought to be done , and what ought to be avoided extends . muft , therefore , be concluded , that Man was acquainted with his ...
... fuch Failure , and unlawful Acting . Confcience cannot accufe of Offence , farther than a Perception of what ought to be done , and what ought to be avoided extends . muft , therefore , be concluded , that Man was acquainted with his ...
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... fuch as God ap- proved of . It is irrational to imagine , that the Mind of Man was not the Subject of any Habits good or evil , as he was created of God , for that supposes , that he was neither holy , nor unholy . The Difpofition of ...
... fuch as God ap- proved of . It is irrational to imagine , that the Mind of Man was not the Subject of any Habits good or evil , as he was created of God , for that supposes , that he was neither holy , nor unholy . The Difpofition of ...
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... fuch Dif- pofitions , as Men univerfally give Evidence have Place in their Minds . The Abfurdity of fuch an Imagination , I cannot but think muft be evident to every one , who is not void of all Confideration , and is not abfolutely a ...
... fuch Dif- pofitions , as Men univerfally give Evidence have Place in their Minds . The Abfurdity of fuch an Imagination , I cannot but think muft be evident to every one , who is not void of all Confideration , and is not abfolutely a ...
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... fuch as he now is ? It is not fo great a Dishonour to God , to deny that he is the Author of the Being of Man , as it is to affert that he created him fuch as he now is , in the Temper and Difpofition of his Mind . And to fuppofe , that ...
... fuch as he now is ? It is not fo great a Dishonour to God , to deny that he is the Author of the Being of Man , as it is to affert that he created him fuch as he now is , in the Temper and Difpofition of his Mind . And to fuppofe , that ...
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... fuch Love is not a blind Paffion ; but a holy Affection , raised in the Mind by a Perception of His infinite Excellencies . Ig- norant Devotion is every whit as good in itself , as undifcerning Affection towards the Deity . Again , the ...
... fuch Love is not a blind Paffion ; but a holy Affection , raised in the Mind by a Perception of His infinite Excellencies . Ig- norant Devotion is every whit as good in itself , as undifcerning Affection towards the Deity . Again , the ...
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Page 302 - I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. 9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
Page 166 - Though the fig tree do not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 111 - Cursed is every one -which continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.
Page 134 - For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Page 166 - ... that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil ; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Page 368 - His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, Washed with milk, and fitly set.
Page 166 - The gracious declaration, that " all things work together for good to them who love God, and are the called according to his purpose...
Page 325 - Doctrines which they have no relish fur, it may be, some in their congregation firmly believe, and therefore, they dare not at once, and in a plain manner, deny them, but by long silence about them, and now and then advancing principles not consistent with them, they insensibly instil them into the minds of their hearers, and draw them off from that regard they once paid to those other principles.
Page 363 - Maiyotte. who is black, but comely as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon, seems to be aware of the fact.
Page 380 - I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God, for he bath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with jewels.