The Gospel Treasury ...: Biblical criticisms, interesting dialogues, and a variety of casuistical questions and answersSamuel T. Armstrong, 1810 |
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... FREE - AGENCY OF MAN . Crispus . OUR last conversation , on the moral character of God , has led me , my dear Gaius , to desire your thoughts on the nature of man , as a subject of moral government , Gaius . This is , no doubt , a very ...
... FREE - AGENCY OF MAN . Crispus . OUR last conversation , on the moral character of God , has led me , my dear Gaius , to desire your thoughts on the nature of man , as a subject of moral government , Gaius . This is , no doubt , a very ...
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Crisp . Do you consider man as a free - agent ? Gaius . Certainly ; to deny this , would be to deny that we are accountable to the God that made us . Nec- essarians and anti - necessarians have disputed where- in free - agency consists ...
Crisp . Do you consider man as a free - agent ? Gaius . Certainly ; to deny this , would be to deny that we are accountable to the God that made us . Nec- essarians and anti - necessarians have disputed where- in free - agency consists ...
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... free ? Gai . We cannot be morally free ; but moral slavery , any more than moral liberty has nothing to do with free- agency ; The reason is , in this case there is no force op- posed to the agent's own will . Crisp . I have often heard ...
... free ? Gai . We cannot be morally free ; but moral slavery , any more than moral liberty has nothing to do with free- agency ; The reason is , in this case there is no force op- posed to the agent's own will . Crisp . I have often heard ...
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... free- agency , but must be indebted wholly to sovereign and efficacious grace for it , I admit the consequence . Lit- tle , however , as they make of this idea of free agency , I might reply , it is all that they themselves can conceive ...
... free- agency , but must be indebted wholly to sovereign and efficacious grace for it , I admit the consequence . Lit- tle , however , as they make of this idea of free agency , I might reply , it is all that they themselves can conceive ...
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... free agents ; who are ? Crisp . But this is moral liberty . Gai . True ; but the same reasoning will apply to moral slavery : If an unalterable bias of mind to do good does not destroy free agency ... free agent as Gabriel , and as much ...
... free agents ; who are ? Crisp . But this is moral liberty . Gai . True ; but the same reasoning will apply to moral slavery : If an unalterable bias of mind to do good does not destroy free agency ... free agent as Gabriel , and as much ...
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Page 308 - For, for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
Page 285 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 403 - If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
Page 315 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto - them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people ; saying with a loud voice ; Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters.
Page 174 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God : for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man : but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 289 - Then cometh the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all his enemies under his feet.
Page 396 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 392 - Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery : if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. God hath spoken once ; twice have I heard this : that power belongeth unto God.
Page 363 - But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
Page 164 - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses...