Letters on the Trinity and on the Divinity of Christ: Addressed to the Rev. William E. Channing in Answer to His Sermon On the Doctrines of Christianity |
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... prove that the Scriptures demand the exercise of reason ? Take , for example , the style in which they ge- nerally speak of God , and observe how habitually they apply to him hu- man passions and organs . Recollect the declarations of ...
... prove that the Scriptures demand the exercise of reason ? Take , for example , the style in which they ge- nerally speak of God , and observe how habitually they apply to him hu- man passions and organs . Recollect the declarations of ...
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... prove the divine origin of Chris- tianity are addressed ; and it is by reason that we prove , or are led to admit , this origin , on general or historical grounds . Reason prescribes , or at any rate developes and sanctions , the laws ...
... prove the divine origin of Chris- tianity are addressed ; and it is by reason that we prove , or are led to admit , this origin , on general or historical grounds . Reason prescribes , or at any rate developes and sanctions , the laws ...
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... proves that they were com- monly understood , or at least used in the Church , at a pe- riod so early , and in reference to the very distinction in the Godhead which is the subject of the present discus- sion . The object which ...
... proves that they were com- monly understood , or at least used in the Church , at a pe- riod so early , and in reference to the very distinction in the Godhead which is the subject of the present discus- sion . The object which ...
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... prove , that there is actually a great variety of opinion among Trinitarians , in regard to the principal thing con- cerned , merely because endeavours to define this thing have produced a great variety of illustration ? I cannot help ...
... prove , that there is actually a great variety of opinion among Trinitarians , in regard to the principal thing con- cerned , merely because endeavours to define this thing have produced a great variety of illustration ? I cannot help ...
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... proved without revelation . It may perhaps be rendered faintly probable . Then you de- pend on Scripture proof for the establishment of this doc- trine . But have the Scriptures anywhere told us what the divine unity is ? Will you ...
... proved without revelation . It may perhaps be rendered faintly probable . Then you de- pend on Scripture proof for the establishment of this doc- trine . But have the Scriptures anywhere told us what the divine unity is ? Will you ...
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Page 124 - Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 89 - And they sung a new song, saying. Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Page 113 - Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest: because I said I am the Son of God?
Page 83 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Page 89 - The word is nigh thec, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith which we preach ; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Page 112 - But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 92 - Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me ; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear : and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Page 84 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 87 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 95 - Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar : and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips ; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.