Letters Addressed to Trinitarians and Calvinists: Occasioned by Dr. Wood's Letters to UnitariansHilliard and Metcalf, 1820 - 150 pages |
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... seems to be taking a character of modera- tion , temperance , and urbanity , which promises a fa- vourable result . It assures us , that the great end , which , on each side , we propose to ourselves , will not be lost sight of in the ...
... seems to be taking a character of modera- tion , temperance , and urbanity , which promises a fa- vourable result . It assures us , that the great end , which , on each side , we propose to ourselves , will not be lost sight of in the ...
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... received doctrine of the Trinity is reconcile- able with the proper Unity of God , we must be allow- ed to consider the charge as still lying in its full force . Of this the most respectable Trinitarian writers seem not to 10.
... received doctrine of the Trinity is reconcile- able with the proper Unity of God , we must be allow- ed to consider the charge as still lying in its full force . Of this the most respectable Trinitarian writers seem not to 10.
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... seem not to be insensible . How much they are pressed with this difficulty , and how impossible they find it to ex- tricate themselves from it , appears in the variety of explanations which have been successively resort- ed to , and the ...
... seem not to be insensible . How much they are pressed with this difficulty , and how impossible they find it to ex- tricate themselves from it , appears in the variety of explanations which have been successively resort- ed to , and the ...
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... seems to me liable to objection . In his fourth Letter , in stating what was necessary on his part , and the mode of reasoning proper to be pursued , in order to relieve the system he has undertaken to defend , from the charge of ...
... seems to me liable to objection . In his fourth Letter , in stating what was necessary on his part , and the mode of reasoning proper to be pursued , in order to relieve the system he has undertaken to defend , from the charge of ...
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... seem at first to be at variance . But other cases , it is evi- dent , may be supposed , which would admit of no such explanation . And what I contend is , that the ortho- dox doctrine , as to the natural " character of man , and the ...
... seem at first to be at variance . But other cases , it is evi- dent , may be supposed , which would admit of no such explanation . And what I contend is , that the ortho- dox doctrine , as to the natural " character of man , and the ...
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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.