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... choose the good . There must be the faculties and powers of a free agent , bearing the relation of possi- bility to right action . Faculties that can do nothing , and powers that have no relation of a cause to its effect , in possible ...
... choose the good . There must be the faculties and powers of a free agent , bearing the relation of possi- bility to right action . Faculties that can do nothing , and powers that have no relation of a cause to its effect , in possible ...
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... choose life or death in the view of motives , ) taken away , but rather established . This is what I mean , and all I mean , by the natural ability of man to obey the gospel . Material causes , while upheld by heaven , are adequate to ...
... choose life or death in the view of motives , ) taken away , but rather established . This is what I mean , and all I mean , by the natural ability of man to obey the gospel . Material causes , while upheld by heaven , are adequate to ...
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... choose , under the influence of such a constitu- tion of body , and mind , and motive , that every voli- tion bears the relation of an effect to a natural and necessary cause , rendering any other choice than the one which comes to pass ...
... choose , under the influence of such a constitu- tion of body , and mind , and motive , that every voli- tion bears the relation of an effect to a natural and necessary cause , rendering any other choice than the one which comes to pass ...
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... the family is ruined ; the moral attractions cease ; its sun goes down , and it becomes a den of animals . In the nature of things , the existence of a universe Free agents have power to choose life or death . NATURAL ABILITY . 27.
... the family is ruined ; the moral attractions cease ; its sun goes down , and it becomes a den of animals . In the nature of things , the existence of a universe Free agents have power to choose life or death . NATURAL ABILITY . 27.
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... choose either way - life or death . 6 This is the doctrine of our Confession and Cate- chisms . Man in his state of innocency had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well pleasing to God ; but yet mutably so that ...
... choose either way - life or death . 6 This is the doctrine of our Confession and Cate- chisms . Man in his state of innocency had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well pleasing to God ; but yet mutably so that ...
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able according accountability action actual actual sin Adam Adam's admit adult agent antinomian Arminian aversion believe bias Bible Calvinistic choice choose Christ church Confession of Faith constitution contrary corruption created creature creeds denied divine doctrine effect effectual calling evidence evil exposition faculties fall fallen fatality free agency Freedom Gnostics God's gospel grace hath heart heresy Holy Spirit impotency imputed influence Irenæus Justin Martyr language Lord man's Manicheans means mind moral government moral inability motives natural ability natural causes natural impossibility natural inability natural liberty natural necessity natural power necessity of nature never obey obligation original original sin Pelagian Pelagius perfect perverted possibility posterity preaching Presbyterian punishment reason regeneration respect righteousness salvation scriptural sense sermon sinner sins social liability soul Synod of Dort taught teach things thou tion total depravity truth uncoerced universal unto volition voluntary will-Dr Wilson word and Spirit
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Page 142 - But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot: neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Page 98 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 143 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me, the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 91 - No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him ; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Page 106 - GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 97 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil ; in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Page 64 - Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.
Page 93 - For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Page 199 - Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the Gospel.
Page 128 - EXCEPT the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.