A Treatise on Atonement: In which the Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement; and Its Glorious Consequences, in the Final Reconciliation of All Men to Holiness and HappinessPrinted at the Oracle Press, 1812 - 236 pages |
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Page 15
... moral good . This law is transgressed , whenever , by the influence of temptation , a good understanding yields to a contrary choice , Where a law exists , it presuppo- ses a legislature , whose intention , in legislation , must be ...
... moral good . This law is transgressed , whenever , by the influence of temptation , a good understanding yields to a contrary choice , Where a law exists , it presuppo- ses a legislature , whose intention , in legislation , must be ...
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... moral depravity , where darkness reigns with all its horrors . The above arguments are introduced , to show the absurdity of admitting a violation of the intention of the Supreme Legislator . I now turn on the other side , and admit ...
... moral depravity , where darkness reigns with all its horrors . The above arguments are introduced , to show the absurdity of admitting a violation of the intention of the Supreme Legislator . I now turn on the other side , and admit ...
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... moral accountables , are all limited to the narrow circle of our understanding ; therefore our goodness is limited , being of the finite nature of our knowledge , and our sin is in the same finite and limited circle . It may be argued ...
... moral accountables , are all limited to the narrow circle of our understanding ; therefore our goodness is limited , being of the finite nature of our knowledge , and our sin is in the same finite and limited circle . It may be argued ...
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... moral beings , and when the effects of that knowledge will cease , I can- not imagine . If it be objected , that to call that a sin which produces an infinite continuance of good ef- fects , must be absurd ; I say , in reply , the objec ...
... moral beings , and when the effects of that knowledge will cease , I can- not imagine . If it be objected , that to call that a sin which produces an infinite continuance of good ef- fects , must be absurd ; I say , in reply , the objec ...
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... moral transgres- sion must vary , as the knowledge and understanding of men vary , in various circumstances . If it be thought by the reader , that I have passed over the spirit of the law , which is love to GoD in a superlative degree ...
... moral transgres- sion must vary , as the knowledge and understanding of men vary , in various circumstances . If it be thought by the reader , that I have passed over the spirit of the law , which is love to GoD in a superlative degree ...
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Popular passages
Page 145 - If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or -in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
Page 120 - For he hath put all things under his feet! "But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him.
Page 117 - Him that overcometh, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out : and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God : and I will write upon him my new name.
Page 116 - But of that day and that hour, knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Page 153 - For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven ; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble ; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 59 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Page 28 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Page 209 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 108 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Page 158 - I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance; but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire; whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.