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... argument against their perseverance , and in favour of their apostacy . It will be readily allowed , that what God is thus careful to prevent , even suppose a total apostacy was meant , might possibly befall the righteous , should they ...
... argument against their perseverance , and in favour of their apostacy . It will be readily allowed , that what God is thus careful to prevent , even suppose a total apostacy was meant , might possibly befall the righteous , should they ...
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... argument from them is formed in this manner ; " If conversion be wrought only by the unfrustrable operation of God , and man is purely passive in it , vain are all these commands and exhortations directed to wicked men . " The weakness ...
... argument from them is formed in this manner ; " If conversion be wrought only by the unfrustrable operation of God , and man is purely passive in it , vain are all these commands and exhortations directed to wicked men . " The weakness ...
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... argument from them stands thus ; " He who would have all men , to whom the gospel is vouchsafed , to come to repentance , hath not prepared this saving grace only for some few Christians , leaving the rest under a necessity of perishing ...
... argument from them stands thus ; " He who would have all men , to whom the gospel is vouchsafed , to come to repentance , hath not prepared this saving grace only for some few Christians , leaving the rest under a necessity of perishing ...
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... argument : God com- mands men to keep the whole law perfectly ; it does not follow from hence that they can do it ; his precepts show what man ought to do , not what he can do . Such an exhortation as this , to make a new heart , may be ...
... argument : God com- mands men to keep the whole law perfectly ; it does not follow from hence that they can do it ; his precepts show what man ought to do , not what he can do . Such an exhortation as this , to make a new heart , may be ...
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... to be improved into an argument against § Whitby , p . 435 ; ed . 2. 426 . * John vi . 66. † John vi . 64 , 70 . Matt . ix . 16 , 17 . their final perseverance : though the plain design of the 1E THE CAUSE OF GOD AND TRUTH . 49 39,
... to be improved into an argument against § Whitby , p . 435 ; ed . 2. 426 . * John vi . 66. † John vi . 64 , 70 . Matt . ix . 16 , 17 . their final perseverance : though the plain design of the 1E THE CAUSE OF GOD AND TRUTH . 49 39,
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