Letters Addressed to Trinitarians and Calvinists: Occasioned by Dr. Wood's Letters to UnitariansHilliard and Metcalf, 1820 - 150 pages |
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... certainly a very extraordinary thought , that in defending his system against an ob- jection to which it is thought liable , he should have nothing to do with the very objection itself , nor with the difficulty it involves . Did the ...
... certainly a very extraordinary thought , that in defending his system against an ob- jection to which it is thought liable , he should have nothing to do with the very objection itself , nor with the difficulty it involves . Did the ...
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... certainly cannot be true . In proportion then to the difficulty of reconciling it , the proof of it from scripture and our experience ought to be clear , and not liable to objection . The neglect , therefore , to remove this fundamental ...
... certainly cannot be true . In proportion then to the difficulty of reconciling it , the proof of it from scripture and our experience ought to be clear , and not liable to objection . The neglect , therefore , to remove this fundamental ...
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... certainly admits of no such recon- ciliation with any notion we can have of the moral per- fection of the Author of our being . As Dr. Woods , however , makes no attempt to show how they are capable of being reconciled ; as he has ...
... certainly admits of no such recon- ciliation with any notion we can have of the moral per- fection of the Author of our being . As Dr. Woods , however , makes no attempt to show how they are capable of being reconciled ; as he has ...
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... certainly an extraordinary fact , if a fact it is , that God should first give to man a corrupt nature , wholly averse to good and inclined to evil , and at the same time endow him with a moral discernment and feelings , which lead him ...
... certainly an extraordinary fact , if a fact it is , that God should first give to man a corrupt nature , wholly averse to good and inclined to evil , and at the same time endow him with a moral discernment and feelings , which lead him ...
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... certainly no cause to feel ourselves humbled under a sense of any thing that we are by nature . We have occasion to be ashamed only of what we have become by practice . For the nature God has given us no sentiment but that of gratitude ...
... certainly no cause to feel ourselves humbled under a sense of any thing that we are by nature . We have occasion to be ashamed only of what we have become by practice . For the nature God has given us no sentiment but that of gratitude ...
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Page 72 - Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind ; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Page 70 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name : those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the Son of Perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Page 66 - At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: for the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Page 76 - Seed in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed.
Page 91 - Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name : and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.
Page 77 - For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion 16 So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Page 115 - All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by his Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ...
Page 79 - Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit, yet they never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved...
Page 56 - The rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonour and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 114 - This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from any thing at all foreseen in man; who is altogether passive therein, until, being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit, he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it.