Letters on the Trinity, and on the divinity of Christ, addressed to W.E. Channing, in answer to his sermon on the doctrines of Christianity [A sermon delivered at the ordination of the rev. Jared Sparks]. Republ., with alterations1825 |
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... Creature ; desirous , perhaps , rather to avoid the one alternative , than ready to embrace the other . Such would do well to consider the consequences of this aversion : especially whether it does not lead them to adopt views differ ...
... Creature ; desirous , perhaps , rather to avoid the one alternative , than ready to embrace the other . Such would do well to consider the consequences of this aversion : especially whether it does not lead them to adopt views differ ...
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... Creature , what must he be ? Is there any me- dium between the Godhead and a created nature ? If there be , what is ... Creature . Let us read the language in which this Creature is described , and say in what other terms can we speak of ...
... Creature , what must he be ? Is there any me- dium between the Godhead and a created nature ? If there be , what is ... Creature . Let us read the language in which this Creature is described , and say in what other terms can we speak of ...
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... creature , and observe what an effect it would have on the whole tone and tendency of the language . Let us try this in one well - known passage : " He that spared not a mere creature , but delivered this creature up for us all , how ...
... creature , and observe what an effect it would have on the whole tone and tendency of the language . Let us try this in one well - known passage : " He that spared not a mere creature , but delivered this creature up for us all , how ...
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... creature ? By no means ; ( mean- ing , not a creature in the sense that other things were ; these being mediately created by the Logos , but the Logos immediately by the Father . ) But when the word was proposed , and it was decided ...
... creature ? By no means ; ( mean- ing , not a creature in the sense that other things were ; these being mediately created by the Logos , but the Logos immediately by the Father . ) But when the word was proposed , and it was decided ...
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... creatures ? Can we not find mystery within ourselves , which is as in- explicable , as any thing in the doctrine before us ? We do not appropriate the affections of our minds , to our bodies ; nor those of our bodies , to our minds ...
... creatures ? Can we not find mystery within ourselves , which is as in- explicable , as any thing in the doctrine before us ? We do not appropriate the affections of our minds , to our bodies ; nor those of our bodies , to our minds ...
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Page 112 - Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Page 80 - The word is nigh thec, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart : that is, the word of faith which we preach ; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Page 63 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 76 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
Page 105 - Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest: because I said I am the Son of God?
Page 86 - Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us ? Then said I, Here am I, send me.
Page 85 - Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Page 83 - To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 103 - But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him ; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Page 78 - But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.