The Works of President Edwards, Volume 6James Black & Son, 1817 - Congregational churches |
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... objects of their lusts . We should take heed that at this day we be not like the Gadarenes , who - when Christ came into their country in the exercise of his glorious power and grace , triumphing over a legion of devils , and delivering ...
... objects of their lusts . We should take heed that at this day we be not like the Gadarenes , who - when Christ came into their country in the exercise of his glorious power and grace , triumphing over a legion of devils , and delivering ...
Page 92
... object against injuring one temporal affair for the sake of another of much greater importance : And therefore , if eternal things are as real as temporal things , and are indeed of infinitely greater importance ; then why may we not ...
... object against injuring one temporal affair for the sake of another of much greater importance : And therefore , if eternal things are as real as temporal things , and are indeed of infinitely greater importance ; then why may we not ...
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... object go upon quite wrong notions of things . For though persons ought to take heed that they do not make an ado without necessity ; for this will be the way in time to have such appearances lose all their effect ; yet the unavoidable ...
... object go upon quite wrong notions of things . For though persons ought to take heed that they do not make an ado without necessity ; for this will be the way in time to have such appearances lose all their effect ; yet the unavoidable ...
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... object not against the saints and angels in heaven singing praises and hallelujahs to God , with- out ceasing day or night ; and therefore doubtless will allow that the more the saints on earth are like them in their dispo- sitions ...
... object not against the saints and angels in heaven singing praises and hallelujahs to God , with- out ceasing day or night ; and therefore doubtless will allow that the more the saints on earth are like them in their dispo- sitions ...
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... objects and circumstances , may be from the intervention or interposition of some infirmity , blindness , inadvertence , deceit or corruption of ours . So that although the disposition in general ought to be allowed and promoted , and ...
... objects and circumstances , may be from the intervention or interposition of some infirmity , blindness , inadvertence , deceit or corruption of ours . So that although the disposition in general ought to be allowed and promoted , and ...
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Page 413 - At that day ye shall ask in my name : and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you : for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Page 395 - And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
Page 458 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge ; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness ; And to godliness brotherly kindness ; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 460 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God : I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Page 265 - Now the just shall live by faith : but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition ; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Page 380 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Page 505 - But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all : and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest ; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
Page 426 - In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Page 237 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour ; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Page 71 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.