A Review of Doct. Emmons's Theory of God's Agency on Mankind: Addressed to the Congregational Clergy of New England |
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... Necessity OF THE MORAL EVIL EXISTING IN THE UNIVERSE TO A DISPLAY OF THE PIVINE GLORY . 10000 NEW - YORK : PUBLISHED BY JOHN SAYRE , 146 BROADWAY . ............. BT165 R 4 Southern District of New - York , 1821 . REVIEW ...
... Necessity OF THE MORAL EVIL EXISTING IN THE UNIVERSE TO A DISPLAY OF THE PIVINE GLORY . 10000 NEW - YORK : PUBLISHED BY JOHN SAYRE , 146 BROADWAY . ............. BT165 R 4 Southern District of New - York , 1821 . REVIEW ...
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... Glory . " In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States , en- titled " An Act for the encouragement of Learning , by securing the Co- pies of Maps , Charts , and Books , to the authors and proprietors of such copies ...
... Glory . " In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States , en- titled " An Act for the encouragement of Learning , by securing the Co- pies of Maps , Charts , and Books , to the authors and proprietors of such copies ...
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... glory ; but it cannot be demonstrated from that , that man is uni- versally and absolutely destitute of power . God is glorified by the display of his at- tributes . If , then , it follows from the fact , that God has formed and governs ...
... glory ; but it cannot be demonstrated from that , that man is uni- versally and absolutely destitute of power . God is glorified by the display of his at- tributes . If , then , it follows from the fact , that God has formed and governs ...
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... glory , does not present any ground for the inference that he is absolutely destitute of power ; but , on the contrary , conducts us to the con- conclusion , that he is endowed with power . From neither of these known truths then ...
... glory , does not present any ground for the inference that he is absolutely destitute of power ; but , on the contrary , conducts us to the con- conclusion , that he is endowed with power . From neither of these known truths then ...
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... glory . Why , then , is not this doctrine , if true , revealed to us ? why , at least , are there not some hints of it ? Were prophets and apostles ignorant of it ? Was it left " hid from the foundation of the world ” till this late age ...
... glory . Why , then , is not this doctrine , if true , revealed to us ? why , at least , are there not some hints of it ? Were prophets and apostles ignorant of it ? Was it left " hid from the foundation of the world ” till this late age ...
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Page 145 - Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men : forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 143 - God that made the world, and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands ; neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things...
Page 145 - Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 143 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 185 - Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment...
Page 145 - For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Page 165 - Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 137 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 17 - He not only prepared these persons to act, but made them act. He not only exhibited motives of. action before their minds, but disposed their minds to comply with the motives exhibited. But there was no possible way in which he could dispose them to act right or wrong, but only by producing right or wrong volitions in their hearts.
Page 185 - And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh : and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my hand-maidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy...