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... believe that there is an endless heaven of peace , purity and har- mony bending above our prayers and our hopes ; a heaven worthy of a being of infinite perfec- tions , as christians , a large portion of us believe also in an endless ...
... believe that there is an endless heaven of peace , purity and har- mony bending above our prayers and our hopes ; a heaven worthy of a being of infinite perfec- tions , as christians , a large portion of us believe also in an endless ...
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... did the Deity create us , for surely he did not create us with- out a purpose and a design ? I see no difficulty in answering this question . If God is the great and good being that we believe him to be , 18 THE ATTRIBUES .
... did the Deity create us , for surely he did not create us with- out a purpose and a design ? I see no difficulty in answering this question . If God is the great and good being that we believe him to be , 18 THE ATTRIBUES .
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G. V. Maxham. and good being that we believe him to be , he must have created man - but a little lower than the angels - for a noble and benevolent purpose , designing to place him finally in a state of hap- piness as exalted and ...
G. V. Maxham. and good being that we believe him to be , he must have created man - but a little lower than the angels - for a noble and benevolent purpose , designing to place him finally in a state of hap- piness as exalted and ...
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... believe in regard to his omniscience and immutability ? Was not every action of every man before him ? If so , he must have loved and hated us infinitely at the same time . But there could not be a more monstrous absurdity . Infinite ...
... believe in regard to his omniscience and immutability ? Was not every action of every man before him ? If so , he must have loved and hated us infinitely at the same time . But there could not be a more monstrous absurdity . Infinite ...
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... believe that Adam as the represen- tative of his race , was created not for a life of idleness , inactivity and unmingled pleasure , but to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow , to suffer , to endure and to be patient . We look up ...
... believe that Adam as the represen- tative of his race , was created not for a life of idleness , inactivity and unmingled pleasure , but to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow , to suffer , to endure and to be patient . We look up ...
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Page 50 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Page 20 - Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
Page 19 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 26 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life...
Page 123 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Page 93 - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Page 174 - And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, BIBLICAL LITERATURE 65 that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
Page 93 - And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Page 50 - Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather : that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That...
Page 20 - The rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.