Comparative Theology: Or, the True and Solid Grounds of Pure and Peaceable Theology. ... Proposed in a University-discourse. And Now Translated from the Printed Latin Copy, with Some Few Enlargements by the Author

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R. & A. Foulis, 1752 - Theology, Doctrinal - 131 pages
 

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Page 126 - To the Jews he became as a Jew, that he might gain the Jews; to them that were under the law, as under the law, that he might gain them that were under the law; to them that were without law, as without law, that he might gain them that were without law. To the weak," he says, " became I as weak, that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some
Page 85 - Whofoever is born of God, doth not commit fin : for his feed remaineth in him, and he cannot fin, becaufe he is born of God.
Page 126 - Jews becoming a Jew, that he might gain the Jews — to them that were under the law as under the law, that he might gain them that were under the law — to them that were without law as without law, that he might gain them that were without law — to the weak becoming as weak, that he might gain the weak — in a word, " making himself all things to all men, that he might by all means save some.
Page 61 - ... all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth : but whether there be prophecies, they fhall fail ; whether there be tongues, they fhall ceafe; whether there be knowledge, it fhall vaniili away.
Page 46 - ... the righteousness of God. This David does more than a hundred times, and as often Osiander hesitates not to pervert his meaning. Not a whit more solid is his objection, that the name of righteousness is rightly and properly applied to that by which we are moved to act aright, but that it is God only that worketh in us both to will and to do, (Phil.
Page 95 - DOCTRINE — of the Gospel, a Divine Bridge. The doctrine of the Gospel is like a bridge, by which alone men can go from this valley of misery to the regions of bliss and happiness ; and the principles of religion, or truths of the Gospel, are like во many arches which, united together, make up this bridge.
Page 96 - ... do, as it were, cut out an arch from the bridge; whereby a breach is made in it, and the paffage by it unto heaven is thus cut ofFand obftrufted.
Page 1 - COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY; OR, The true and folid grounds of pure and peaceable THEOLOGY. ' A fubjeft very necsffar^ though hitherto • almoft wholly neglefied, > Propofed in an Univerfity•Difcourfe.
Page 1 - Tranflated from the printed Latin copy, with fome few enlargements by the Author.
Page 6 - Theology, or the refpeftive knowledge of religion ponders the weight or importance, and obferves the order, refpecT: and relation of things belonging to religion; whether they be points of doftrine, or precepts, or facred rites; and 7HEOLOGT.

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