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... free agency , and his position in a covenant with God . For Baptism is a covenant . The Church in Eng- land no longer registers the vow with the same so- lemn forms which the ancient Church once used- bringing men together before ...
... free agency , and his position in a covenant with God . For Baptism is a covenant . The Church in Eng- land no longer registers the vow with the same so- lemn forms which the ancient Church once used- bringing men together before ...
Page 271
... free will , so im- portant in the science of Ethics , and ( what is still better ) on our practical duties connected with it . What , then , is the machinery , if we may so speak , employed in the creation of man's ... FREE AGENCY .
... free will , so im- portant in the science of Ethics , and ( what is still better ) on our practical duties connected with it . What , then , is the machinery , if we may so speak , employed in the creation of man's ... FREE AGENCY .
Page 272
... free from any restraint , but by being placed between two counteracting re- straints . Here is the world and the flesh dragging him down to sin ; there is the voice of God , speak- ing through parents , ministers ... FREE AGENCY .
... free from any restraint , but by being placed between two counteracting re- straints . Here is the world and the flesh dragging him down to sin ; there is the voice of God , speak- ing through parents , ministers ... FREE AGENCY .
Page 273
... free . And thus God , in making man's nature the slave of pleasure , has yet so arranged both pleasure and pain - mixing in the cup of vice pleasure at the brim and pain in the dregs , and in the cup of virtue pain in the ... FREE AGENCY .
... free . And thus God , in making man's nature the slave of pleasure , has yet so arranged both pleasure and pain - mixing in the cup of vice pleasure at the brim and pain in the dregs , and in the cup of virtue pain in the ... FREE AGENCY .
Page 274
... - sonality — he has power , energy , force — a fact which cannot be tested until he is seen to act in opposition to some mighty influence , to which Nature has sub- jected him . And when he does resist pleasure , 274 FREE AGENCY .
... - sonality — he has power , energy , force — a fact which cannot be tested until he is seen to act in opposition to some mighty influence , to which Nature has sub- jected him . And when he does resist pleasure , 274 FREE AGENCY .
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Page 226 - BAPTISM is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened ; but it is also a sign of regeneration, or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church ; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be. the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed; faith is confirmed and grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God.
Page 100 - And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body...
Page 223 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 260 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Page 120 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Page 260 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth; when he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by him, as one brought up with him; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of...
Page 184 - Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law : for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.
Page 164 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 86 - And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them...
Page 153 - For I know that in me (that is in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.