The Spirit of the Pilgrims, Volume 6Peirce and Williams, 1833 |
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... speak respecting the sinner's ability . And although there is much in what you have lately given to the public , which is well calculated to guard against this danger ; I humbly con- ceive that still greater caution in your manner of ...
... speak respecting the sinner's ability . And although there is much in what you have lately given to the public , which is well calculated to guard against this danger ; I humbly con- ceive that still greater caution in your manner of ...
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... speak of moral in- ability as natural to man ! Our inability to obey God is not natural inability ; and yet it is natural ! The farther we proceed in examining this subject , the more deeply must we feel , that there is danger of ...
... speak of moral in- ability as natural to man ! Our inability to obey God is not natural inability ; and yet it is natural ! The farther we proceed in examining this subject , the more deeply must we feel , that there is danger of ...
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Shall we speak to such persons of their ability , as moral agents ? For what purpose ? All the ends to be accomplish- ed by this , are accomplished already ; for they feel their obliga- tion to obey , and feel it deeply . They have done ...
Shall we speak to such persons of their ability , as moral agents ? For what purpose ? All the ends to be accomplish- ed by this , are accomplished already ; for they feel their obliga- tion to obey , and feel it deeply . They have done ...
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... speak of " the distinction between the ability of man as a free agent , and his inability as a sinner ; " a dis- tinction , which you say , is singularly plain and obvious . I take then the word ability . This word has many senses . In ...
... speak of " the distinction between the ability of man as a free agent , and his inability as a sinner ; " a dis- tinction , which you say , is singularly plain and obvious . I take then the word ability . This word has many senses . In ...
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... speak of man's " inability as a sinner . " Here I determined the sense in the same way . It is the inability of man as a sinner ; an inability arising from the fact of his being a sinner . This of course must be something very different ...
... speak of man's " inability as a sinner . " Here I determined the sense in the same way . It is the inability of man as a sinner ; an inability arising from the fact of his being a sinner . This of course must be something very different ...
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Page 346 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page 345 - But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet ; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
Page 345 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 343 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Page 427 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 345 - Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week. I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 344 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 344 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. 3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Page 731 - I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an Angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Page 105 - For as we have many members In one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ and every one members one of another.