The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index, to Which, for the First Time, Has Been Added, at Great Expense, a Complete Index of Scripture Texts, Volume 4Leavitt & Allen, 1856 - Congregational churches |
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... honor even of kings , is it not equally , if not much more , your honor ? 3. This is a pleasant way of improving time . Knowledge is pleasant and delightful to intelligent creatures , and above all the knowledge of divine things ; for ...
... honor even of kings , is it not equally , if not much more , your honor ? 3. This is a pleasant way of improving time . Knowledge is pleasant and delightful to intelligent creatures , and above all the knowledge of divine things ; for ...
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... honor , abideth not : he is like the beasts that perish . This their way is their folly : yet their posterity approve their sayings . " They find the world is vain and unsatisfactory ; they find the great instability and treachery of ...
... honor , abideth not : he is like the beasts that perish . This their way is their folly : yet their posterity approve their sayings . " They find the world is vain and unsatisfactory ; they find the great instability and treachery of ...
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... honor and respect they may pretend and make a show of towards God , if their practice be examined , it will show , that they do certainly look upon him to be a Being , that is but little to be regarded . They think him one that is ...
... honor and respect they may pretend and make a show of towards God , if their practice be examined , it will show , that they do certainly look upon him to be a Being , that is but little to be regarded . They think him one that is ...
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... honor from God , and proudly exalts himself as Satan did he was not willing to be in such sub- jection ; and ... honors ; they have the possession of that regard which is due to God . The apostle sums up all the idolatry of wicked men in ...
... honor from God , and proudly exalts himself as Satan did he was not willing to be in such sub- jection ; and ... honors ; they have the possession of that regard which is due to God . The apostle sums up all the idolatry of wicked men in ...
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... honor to another . 2. He utterly forbids their cleaving to those idols , and all the service that they do to them ... honors . He threatens them with everlasting torments for their self - exaltation . He requires them to deny themselves ...
... honor to another . 2. He utterly forbids their cleaving to those idols , and all the service that they do to them ... honors . He threatens them with everlasting torments for their self - exaltation . He requires them to deny themselves ...
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Page 428 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Page 338 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 416 - Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Page 414 - But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you, cannot ; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Page 196 - At that day ye shall ask in my name : and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you : for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Page 272 - 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 show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering 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...
Page 128 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 283 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Page 235 - Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?