A New Edition of Two Discourses, Delivered by Samuel Hopkins, A.M. Minister of the Gospel, in Great Barrington: Sermon I. On the Necessity of the Knowledge of the Law of God, in Order to the Knowledge of Sin. Sermon II. A Particular, and Critical Inquiry Into the Cause, Nature and Means of that Change in which Men are Born of God. From a Copy Revised and Corrected by the Author, Now Pastor of a Church in Newport, Rhode IslandPrinted in Boston, A.D. 1768. Reprinted by Anthony Haswell, in Bennington, (Vermont), 1793 - 120 pages |
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afferted anſwer antecedent aſcribed authority becauſe born cafe caſe cauſe Chriſt confidered confifts conſequence conſiſts converfion curſe depravity deſign diſpoſed doctrine eſſential eternal excellence exerciſes exiſt faid faith falvation finner finners firſt fleſh fome foul free grace fuch give glory God's law goſpel heart holiness impenitent increaſe inſtance itſelf Jeſus Chrift juſt juſtly knowledge of fin leaſt least degree leſs means meaſure mind moral agent moſt muſt nature neceſſary in order neſs obſerved oppoſe oppoſition paſſages perfect perfectly periſh perſon pleaſed poſſible queſtion racter reaſon regeneration repreſented reſpect right taſte righteouſneſs ſaid ſame ſaved ſay ſcripture ſee ſenſe ſerve ſet ſhall ſhew ſhort ſhould ſin ſome ſomething ſpeaks ſpeculative ſpirit ſpirit of God ſtate ſtrictneſs ſubject ſuch ſuppoſe ſuppoſition theſe things thoſe tion total depravity true chriſtian truth ture understanding unregenerate uſed views and exercises vileneſs virtue wholly corrupt word wrought yourſelves
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Page 97 - Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure ; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Page 90 - Then will I fprinkle clean " water upon you, and ye (hall be clean : from " all your filthinefs, and from all your idols, " will I cleanfe you. A new heart alfo will I *£ give you, and a new fpirit will I put within
Page 32 - For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Page 90 - And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Page 95 - What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise : for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; 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 95 - Their throat is an open sepulchre ; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 26 - Every man has a right to do what he will with his own...
Page 62 - It implies man's natural blindnefs and ignorance ; i Cor. ii. 14. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolifhnefs unto him ; neither can he know them, becaufe they are fpiritually difcerned.
Page 80 - Chrift, and be found in him; not having mine own righteoufnefs, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Chrift, the righteoufnefs which is of God by faith