An Essay in which the Doctrine of a Positive Divine Efficiency: Exciting the Will of Men to Sin, as Held by Some Modern Writers, is Candidly Discussed, and Shewn to be 1. Unphilosophical. 2. Inconsistent with the Plain and Obvious Sense of the Holy Scriptures, and of Course a Departure from the Simplicity of the Gospel; and 3. A Novel Doctrine, Utterly Repugnant to the Faith of the Christian Church in All Past AgesSamuel T. Armstrong, 1820 - 132 páginas |
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... admit . This therefore is not the point at issue . But it lies in this . One side affirm that no energy imparted to second causes , no arrangement , or direction and application of mo- tives or instruments , is sufficient to move the ...
... admit . This therefore is not the point at issue . But it lies in this . One side affirm that no energy imparted to second causes , no arrangement , or direction and application of mo- tives or instruments , is sufficient to move the ...
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... Admit no conclusion in any system , " says he , " to be valid , unless the conclusion itself , as well as the thesis from which it is deduced , be sufficiently set forth in Holy Scripture . We must prove all things by Scripture and hold ...
... Admit no conclusion in any system , " says he , " to be valid , unless the conclusion itself , as well as the thesis from which it is deduced , be sufficiently set forth in Holy Scripture . We must prove all things by Scripture and hold ...
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... admit of being over- thrown by an opposite course of abstract arguments ; yet we reduce it to absurdity and falsehood by a very easy process ; it is contrary to what is writ- ten . " I find then a law , that when I would do good , evil ...
... admit of being over- thrown by an opposite course of abstract arguments ; yet we reduce it to absurdity and falsehood by a very easy process ; it is contrary to what is writ- ten . " I find then a law , that when I would do good , evil ...
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... admitting for the sake of argument this notion to be perfectly correct , then nothing can be more just than to affirm , that motives have as much power or efficiency , as the cause of volition , or governing and determining the mind ...
... admitting for the sake of argument this notion to be perfectly correct , then nothing can be more just than to affirm , that motives have as much power or efficiency , as the cause of volition , or governing and determining the mind ...
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... admit any other power , or principle of the soul , distinct from voluntary ex- ertion , as necessary to moral agency . Nay , it seems to be implied , that the soul itself is not any thing distinct from voluntary exertion . Now upon his ...
... admit any other power , or principle of the soul , distinct from voluntary ex- ertion , as necessary to moral agency . Nay , it seems to be implied , that the soul itself is not any thing distinct from voluntary exertion . Now upon his ...
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Página 82 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own : for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Página 62 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual. . . . For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Página 88 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Página 17 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Página 106 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God ; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth ; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Página 42 - Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Página 76 - And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him. But ye know him; for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.
Página 44 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Página 93 - What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction...
Página 73 - Then answered Jesus, and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do : for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.