The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion with the Creation and the FallMacmillan, 1855 - 188 páginas |
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... grace . There are two reasons which conspire to prove the insufficiency of this explanation , however current it may be among a large class of Christian divines . And first , if the omnipotence of God makes it certain that the entrance ...
... grace . There are two reasons which conspire to prove the insufficiency of this explanation , however current it may be among a large class of Christian divines . And first , if the omnipotence of God makes it certain that the entrance ...
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... Grace . It is a power , first of all , to call innumerable creatures out of nothing , by the simple fiat of the Divine Will , and to endow them with various activities , by which they are differenced from each other and from the Creator ...
... Grace . It is a power , first of all , to call innumerable creatures out of nothing , by the simple fiat of the Divine Will , and to endow them with various activities , by which they are differenced from each other and from the Creator ...
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... grace denotes the sovereign power of God to recover fallen creatures out of their moral ruin , with no other limit than their essential capabilities of receiving the influences of His grace— a limit which we can only hope to determine ...
... grace denotes the sovereign power of God to recover fallen creatures out of their moral ruin , with no other limit than their essential capabilities of receiving the influences of His grace— a limit which we can only hope to determine ...
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... grace , is not a physical , but a moral change . Of such an effect , no physical force whatever is an adequate cause ; and it can result only from the moral suasion of warnings and promises , hopes and fears , acting with conjoint and ...
... grace , is not a physical , but a moral change . Of such an effect , no physical force whatever is an adequate cause ; and it can result only from the moral suasion of warnings and promises , hopes and fears , acting with conjoint and ...
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... grace to excite our will . And whether election be the cause or consequence of the design of God , to give faith , it still remains true that He gives faith or salvation to whomsoever He pleases , without there appearing to be any ...
... grace to excite our will . And whether election be the cause or consequence of the design of God , to give faith , it still remains true that He gives faith or salvation to whomsoever He pleases , without there appearing to be any ...
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The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion with the Creation and the Fall ... Thomas Rawson Birks Visualização integral - 1876 |
The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion with the Creation and the Fall Thomas Rawson Birks Visualização integral - 1855 |
The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion with the Creation and the Fall ... Thomas Rawson Birks Visualização integral - 1876 |
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Página 53 - 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, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Página 164 - Such an improvement of the doctrine of the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent...
Página 33 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Página 158 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Página 79 - And in Eph. vi. 12, the same bad influence is referred to under the names of " principalities, and powers," " the rulers of the darkness of this world," and " spiritual wickedness in high places.
Página 68 - Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Página 81 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...
Página 183 - Prize Essay for 1877. 8vo. &r. 6d. SMITH— Works by the Rev. BARNARD SMITH, MA, Rector of Glaston, Rutland, late Fellow and Senior Bursar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA, in their Principles and Application ; with numerous systematically arranged Examples taken from the Cambridge Examination Papers, with especial reference to the Ordinary Examination for the BA Degree.
Página 68 - sdained subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burdensome still paying, still to owe...
Página 84 - How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...