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... able to judge of them better , than you could possibly do by a few scat- tered remarks , or by the most copious enlarge- ment on any single branch of them alone . I shalt endeavour to dispose these hints so , as that they may be some ...
... able to judge of them better , than you could possibly do by a few scat- tered remarks , or by the most copious enlarge- ment on any single branch of them alone . I shalt endeavour to dispose these hints so , as that they may be some ...
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... able to believe , if any were made , it should be so introduced and transmitted , as we are told Christianity was ; and that its general nature and substance should be such , as we find that of the gospel is . If these particulars are ...
... able to believe , if any were made , it should be so introduced and transmitted , as we are told Christianity was ; and that its general nature and substance should be such , as we find that of the gospel is . If these particulars are ...
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... able to converse with his rational creatures ; and , by sensible manifesta- tions , or by inward impressions , to convey the knowledge of things which lie beyond the ken of their natural faculties , and yet may be highly conducive to ...
... able to converse with his rational creatures ; and , by sensible manifesta- tions , or by inward impressions , to convey the knowledge of things which lie beyond the ken of their natural faculties , and yet may be highly conducive to ...
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... able fully to comprehend . Yet we should expect to find these introduced in a practical view , as directing us to duties before unknown , or suggesting powerful motives to make us resolute and constant in the discharge of the rest ...
... able fully to comprehend . Yet we should expect to find these introduced in a practical view , as directing us to duties before unknown , or suggesting powerful motives to make us resolute and constant in the discharge of the rest ...
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... able to answer . But the nature of my present argument , and the limits of my time , oblige me at present to wave the proof of it , any farther than as it is implied in , and de- pendant upon , what I have more immediately in view . In ...
... able to answer . But the nature of my present argument , and the limits of my time , oblige me at present to wave the proof of it , any farther than as it is implied in , and de- pendant upon , what I have more immediately in view . In ...
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Page 177 - We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Page 120 - And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will.
Page 163 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 161 - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of Me: and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with Me from the beginning.
Page 116 - Through the tender mer'cy of our God : whereby the day-spring from' on high hath visited us ; To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in' the shadow of death : and to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Page 162 - Peace be unto you ; as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them; Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 160 - I will pray the Father, and he shall send you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever...
Page 155 - And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety that the Lord hath sent his angel and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
Page 134 - INSPIRATION, the conveying of certain extraordinary and supernatural notions or motions into the soul ; or it denotes any supernatural influence of God upon the mind of a rational creature, whereby he is formed to any degree of intellectual improvement, to which he could not, or would not, in fact, have attained in his present circumstances in a natural way.
Page 126 - ... a savour of life unto life, or a savour of death unto death.