 | Classical philology - 1818 - 426 pages
...own poets have said, For ке are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art or man's device." Of this God it appears that those of the popular religion had an idea : for the... | |
 | Samuel Chapman Loveland - Congregational churches - 1818 - 244 pages
...St. Paul's words on this subject are very express ; "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God. we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or 'silver, or stone graven by art or man's device." Does not the force of this passage plainly rest on the natural idea, that there... | |
 | Duncan Mearns - Apologetics - 1818 - 212 pages
...poets have said, For we are also his off' spring. Forasmuch then as we are the off' spring of God, we ought not to think that ' the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or ' stone, graven by art or man's device.' f * ' Their previous conceptions, instead of helping them, b«. ' hoved to be... | |
 | George Tomline - Bible - 1818 - 608 pages
...learning and the liberal arts, was " wholly given to idolatry (I) ;" and he told the Athenians, that they ought not " to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven byart and man's device (m)." In his Epistle to the Romans he condemns those who " changed the glory... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1818 - 616 pages
...reAfts xvii. prefentations ! It is St. Paul's difcourfe ; Being, faith he, a9- the offspring of God, we ought not to think, that the Godhead is like unto gold, orjilver, orjlone, graven by art and man's device. How injurious alfo to that moft excellent nature... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1818 - 624 pages
...fuch mean rexvii. prefentations ! It is St. Paul's difcourfe; Being, faith he, the offspring of God, we ought not to think, that the Godhead is like unto gold, orjilver, orjlone, graven by art and man's device. How injurious alfo to that moft excellent nature... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 440 pages
...practices as dishonour our Maker : Acts, xvii. 29, he saith, Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or silver, or stone engraven by art and mans device. And in Rom. i. 22, 23, in numbering and particularizing the sins of... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 302 pages
...poets have said, For we are also the offspring of God. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device." Here the apostle, iu order to confute the subtle arguments of the Epicurians Christian... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 528 pages
...the earth. But now from hence the apostle argues", " Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think, that the godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone graven by art and man's device :" If the invisible, inexpressible part of man is the image of God, and we are his sons... | |
 | Arminianism - 1821 - 992 pages
...above, cannot consist of component parts; because he is Immaterial and Immortal. Hence it is written, " We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device," Acts xvii. 29. And though in the Scripture, mention is made of GOD'S eyes, his ears,... | |
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Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 
