Letters Addressed to Trinitarians and Calvinists: Occasioned by Dr. Wood's Letters to UnitariansHilliard and Metcalf, 1820 - 150 pages |
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... heart . But these are exceptions from the general character of human nature , and , as such , have no place in the present argument ; and if they had any , would be decisive , not in favour of the Orthodox doc- trine , but against it ...
... heart . But these are exceptions from the general character of human nature , and , as such , have no place in the present argument ; and if they had any , would be decisive , not in favour of the Orthodox doc- trine , but against it ...
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... heart , implying deep - rooted and radical wickedness , express- ed by " the imaginations of the heart . " But this is all perfectly consistent with their coming into being , in- nocent and pure . It is not what they are by nature , but ...
... heart , implying deep - rooted and radical wickedness , express- ed by " the imaginations of the heart . " But this is all perfectly consistent with their coming into being , in- nocent and pure . It is not what they are by nature , but ...
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... heart is deceitful above all things , and desperate- ly wicked . " Admit that it relates to a prevailing trait in the human character ; do we not well know , that in the common use of language , such general expres- sions are seldom to ...
... heart is deceitful above all things , and desperate- ly wicked . " Admit that it relates to a prevailing trait in the human character ; do we not well know , that in the common use of language , such general expres- sions are seldom to ...
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... heart . " However de- ceitful men may be , and able to impose on men ; there is one , who is able to detect , and will not fail to pun- ish . 66 From the New Testament , the first passage selected , as implying the doctrine under ...
... heart . " However de- ceitful men may be , and able to impose on men ; there is one , who is able to detect , and will not fail to pun- ish . 66 From the New Testament , the first passage selected , as implying the doctrine under ...
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... hearts by faith , that they might be rooted and grounded in love ; " very suitable to be addressed to professed believers as a promiscuous body : but such as we should hardly expect , if the persons designated were by the very ...
... hearts by faith , that they might be rooted and grounded in love ; " very suitable to be addressed to professed believers as a promiscuous body : but such as we should hardly expect , if the persons designated were by the very ...
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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.