The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life ...G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830 |
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... mind would expatiate with peculiar ease , profit and entertainment . Those studies , which to some are too fatiguing to the mind , and wearying to the constitution , were to him but a natural play of genius , and which his mind without ...
... mind would expatiate with peculiar ease , profit and entertainment . Those studies , which to some are too fatiguing to the mind , and wearying to the constitution , were to him but a natural play of genius , and which his mind without ...
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... mind the meaning of the terms . By last end being meant , that which is regarded and sought by an agent , as agreeable or desirable for its own sake ; a subordinate that which is sought only for the sake of something else . Fifthly ...
... mind the meaning of the terms . By last end being meant , that which is regarded and sought by an agent , as agreeable or desirable for its own sake ; a subordinate that which is sought only for the sake of something else . Fifthly ...
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... mind , on sedate and calm re- flection . 1. It seems a thing in itself proper and desirable , that the glorious attributes of God , which consist in a sufficiency to cer- tain acts and effects , should be exerted in the production of ...
... mind , on sedate and calm re- flection . 1. It seems a thing in itself proper and desirable , that the glorious attributes of God , which consist in a sufficiency to cer- tain acts and effects , should be exerted in the production of ...
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... mind as future . God did not love angels in the strictest sense , but in consequence of his intending to create them , and so having an idea of future ex- isting angels . Therefore his love to them was not properly what excited him to ...
... mind as future . God did not love angels in the strictest sense , but in consequence of his intending to create them , and so having an idea of future ex- isting angels . Therefore his love to them was not properly what excited him to ...
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... mind . He beheld them with equal clearness , certainty and fulness , in every respect , as he doth now . They were always equally present ; as with him there is no variableness or succession . He ever beheld and en- joyed them perfectly ...
... mind . He beheld them with equal clearness , certainty and fulness , in every respect , as he doth now . They were always equally present ; as with him there is no variableness or succession . He ever beheld and en- joyed them perfectly ...
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Page 161 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath : for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 395 - Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth : for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Page 277 - Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Page 440 - ARISE, shine ; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people : but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee ; and the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Page 44 - Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever.
Page 464 - And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow , of wines on the lees well refined.
Page 559 - When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer.
Page 475 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 43 - He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God ; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Page 589 - So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.