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... expression . For the same rea- son that he esteems his own sufficiency wisely to contrive and dispose effects , he also will esteem the wise contrivance and disposition itself . And for the same reason as he delights in his own ...
... expression . For the same rea- son that he esteems his own sufficiency wisely to contrive and dispose effects , he also will esteem the wise contrivance and disposition itself . And for the same reason as he delights in his own ...
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... expressions of them seen by other beings be sides himself . If it be fit , that God's power and wisdom , & c . should be exercised and expressed in some effects , and not lie eternally dormant , then it seems proper that these exercis ...
... expressions of them seen by other beings be sides himself . If it be fit , that God's power and wisdom , & c . should be exercised and expressed in some effects , and not lie eternally dormant , then it seems proper that these exercis ...
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... expressions and genuine effects of them . So that in delighting in the expressions of his perfections , he manifests a delight in his own perfections themselves : Or in other words , he manifests a delight in himself ; and in mak- ing ...
... expressions and genuine effects of them . So that in delighting in the expressions of his perfections , he manifests a delight in his own perfections themselves : Or in other words , he manifests a delight in himself ; and in mak- ing ...
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... expression and manifestation of his own loveliness . And this is so far from being an instance of his happiness not being in and from himself , that it is an evidence that he is happy in himself , or delights and has pleasure in his own ...
... expression and manifestation of his own loveliness . And this is so far from being an instance of his happiness not being in and from himself , that it is an evidence that he is happy in himself , or delights and has pleasure in his own ...
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... expressions in the scrip- ture that signify that man cannot be profitable to God ; that he receives nothing of us by any of our wisdom and right- eousness . For these expressions plainly mean no more than that God is absolutely ...
... expressions in the scrip- ture that signify that man cannot be profitable to God ; that he receives nothing of us by any of our wisdom and right- eousness . For these expressions plainly mean no more than that God is absolutely ...
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Page 228 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 394 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 483 - I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt : open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Page 317 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 77 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 125 - For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse : for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Page 232 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to GOD, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Page 71 - ... the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power ; when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Page 95 - Hath not the potter power over the clay; of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Page 288 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.