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Page 54
... corruption of matter ; the Mani- cheans , from the constitution and nature of the soul . This was the first great attack upon the truth , on which these venerable men were called to fix their sanctified vision , and it was against these ...
... corruption of matter ; the Mani- cheans , from the constitution and nature of the soul . This was the first great attack upon the truth , on which these venerable men were called to fix their sanctified vision , and it was against these ...
Page 58
... corrupt and his fruit corrupt . ' When , therefore , he says , ' do this or do that , ' he shows power , not nature . For no one , except God , can make a tree , BUT EVERY ONE HAS IT IN HIS WILL , EITHER TO CHOOSE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE ...
... corrupt and his fruit corrupt . ' When , therefore , he says , ' do this or do that , ' he shows power , not nature . For no one , except God , can make a tree , BUT EVERY ONE HAS IT IN HIS WILL , EITHER TO CHOOSE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE ...
Page 61
... corruption of your hearts , which is itself crim- inal , and the source of all actual transgressions ? Have you not natural faculties and understanding , will and affections , a wonderful frame of body and a variety of members ? What is ...
... corruption of your hearts , which is itself crim- inal , and the source of all actual transgressions ? Have you not natural faculties and understanding , will and affections , a wonderful frame of body and a variety of members ? What is ...
Page 62
... corruption must be personal , because it is voluntary and consen- ted to . Of both these things a discovery of the glory of God will powerfully convince the sinner . ' Dr. Watts : -Man has lost , not his natural power to obey the law ...
... corruption must be personal , because it is voluntary and consen- ted to . Of both these things a discovery of the glory of God will powerfully convince the sinner . ' Dr. Watts : -Man has lost , not his natural power to obey the law ...
Page 109
... the guilt of Adam's first sin , the want of original righteousness , and the corruption of his whole nature , which is commonly called Original Sin ; Natural powers perverted by the fall , not destroyed . 10 * NATURAL ABILITY . 109.
... the guilt of Adam's first sin , the want of original righteousness , and the corruption of his whole nature , which is commonly called Original Sin ; Natural powers perverted by the fall , not destroyed . 10 * NATURAL ABILITY . 109.
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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.