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" In regeneration there is a power conferred ; conversion is the exercise of this power. In regeneration there is given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning ; that is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into... "
A Treatise on that Being Born Again: Without which No Man Can be Saved - Page 155
by Samuel Wright - 1802 - 224 pages
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The Christian history, ed. by T. Prince

Thomas Prince - 1744 - 440 pages
...made me more able to judge of it. I have laboured to be very cautious in pronouncing Perfons to be brought out of a State of Nature into a State of Grace. I have in many Cafes declared to Perfons that the Grounds of Eafe and Reft they took up with, were...
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The Works of President Edwards ...

Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 564 pages
...this sinful error. When there has been such a time of great and long continued deadness, and many are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace, In so extraordinary a manner, and filled with such uncommon degrees of light, it is natural for such...
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The Almost Christian Discovered

Matthew Mead - Christian life - 1815 - 244 pages
...special work of the Spirit by *Rom. viii. SO, 31. ^Matt. n*. 16. the ministry of the word, whereby a man is brought out of a state of nature, into a state of Grace, " out of darkness into light, from being vessels of wrath, to be made heirs of life."* I grant that...
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Sermons on Some of the First Principles and Doctrines of True Religion

Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1815 - 422 pages
...upon which they are justified. I. I am to describe true believers. These are persons, who have been brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace. All men are by nature morally depraved, and entirely destitute of the least degree of true love to...
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The Work of Faith, the Labour of Love, and the Patience of Hope, Illustrated ...

John RYLAND (D.D.) - 1816 - 746 pages
...given us a principle to turn; conversion is our actual turning. That is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace ; and conversion is the actual fixing on God, a* the terminus ad quern. One gives posse agere ; the other,...
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The communicant's spiritual companion; or, An evangelical preparation for ...

Thomas Haweis - 1818 - 168 pages
...Repentance implies a change of mind ; this is the exact meaning of the Greek word metanoia : for every real penitent is brought out of a state of nature into...'apprehensions, views, and principles of action, are as Self-examination a necessary Duty. different as you can suppose those of any two different persons...
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The Work of Faith, the Labour of Love, and the Patience of Hope, Illustrated ...

John Ryland, Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1818 - 414 pages
...given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning. That is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace; and conversion is the actual fixing on God, as the terminus ad quern. One gives posse agere; order of nature,...
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The Hopkinsian Magazine, Volume 3

Congregational churches - 1828 - 594 pages
...upon which they are justified. 1. I am to describe true believers. These are persons, who have been brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace. All men are by nature morally depraved, and entirely destitute of tho least degree of true love to...
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A Defence of some important doctrines of the Gospel, in twenty-six sermons ...

1826 - 664 pages
...given us a principle to turn, conversion is our actual turning; that is, the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature, into a state of grace and conversion, the actual king on God, as the terminia ad quern: one gives posse agere; and the other,...
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Extracts from ancient and modern authors, arranged so as to form a history ...

Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning. That is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace; and conversion the actual fixing on God as the terminus ad quern. In regeneration man is wholly passive;...
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