Theological Institutes: Or, A View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals, and Institutions of Christianity, Volume 1Carlton & Porter, 1857 - Apologetics |
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... MORAL AGENT . a . ) Man has always been considered capable of performing moral actions ; which are voluntary actions , having respect to some rule . b . ) Antecedent to human laws , there must have been a perception of the difference of ...
... MORAL AGENT . a . ) Man has always been considered capable of performing moral actions ; which are voluntary actions , having respect to some rule . b . ) Antecedent to human laws , there must have been a perception of the difference of ...
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... moral quality of actions . ( 1. ) Reason is an erring faculty , and its exercise is limited by our knowledge . ( 2. ) It is one thing to assent to a doctrine when discovered and proposed , and another to make such discovery origin- ally ...
... moral quality of actions . ( 1. ) Reason is an erring faculty , and its exercise is limited by our knowledge . ( 2. ) It is one thing to assent to a doctrine when discovered and proposed , and another to make such discovery origin- ally ...
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... moral taint in their nature : for the evil is not to be accounted for by the influence of education or ex- ample ... moral objection . Free agency not destroyed . 3. It is adapted to the moral destitution of man . 4. It presents an ...
... moral taint in their nature : for the evil is not to be accounted for by the influence of education or ex- ample ... moral objection . Free agency not destroyed . 3. It is adapted to the moral destitution of man . 4. It presents an ...
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... moral characters of Blount , Tyndal , Hobbes , Voltaire , & c . , not very honourable to the cause which they espouse . b . ) Compare pagan morality with that of the Scriptures . 1. Great moral qualities attributed to the divine Being ...
... moral characters of Blount , Tyndal , Hobbes , Voltaire , & c . , not very honourable to the cause which they espouse . b . ) Compare pagan morality with that of the Scriptures . 1. Great moral qualities attributed to the divine Being ...
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... moral powers . ( c . ) We say then , lastly , ( p . 396 , ) that there is no incongruity between divine prescience and human freedom , unless influence be super- added to necessitate the human will . Quotation from Edwards . VII ...
... moral powers . ( c . ) We say then , lastly , ( p . 396 , ) that there is no incongruity between divine prescience and human freedom , unless influence be super- added to necessitate the human will . Quotation from Edwards . VII ...
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Page 510 - And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Page 591 - Jesus heard that they had cast him out ; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
Page 258 - The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 572 - And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, "Fear not; I am the first and the last. I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Page 516 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 589 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 183 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 543 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.
Page lxiii - I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
Page 632 - And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus. And finding certain disciples, he said unto them ; Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed ? And they said unto him; We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.