The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index, Volume 4Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1844 - Congregational churches |
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Page 35
... give it us , nor can we buy it with any price we have to give . It is the sovereign gift of God . The way to obtain it , is to go to him , sensible of our weakness , and blindness , and misery on that account . " If any lack wisdom let ...
... give it us , nor can we buy it with any price we have to give . It is the sovereign gift of God . The way to obtain it , is to go to him , sensible of our weakness , and blindness , and misery on that account . " If any lack wisdom let ...
Page 36
... give us Christ , to die and shed his precious blood for us , which was vastly the greatest thing , we need not doubt but that he will bestow life upon us , after all this is already done . It is but a small thing for God actually to ...
... give us Christ , to die and shed his precious blood for us , which was vastly the greatest thing , we need not doubt but that he will bestow life upon us , after all this is already done . It is but a small thing for God actually to ...
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... gives such exercises of grace at that time when the temptation comes , that they are restrained . Let not the godly ... gives his restraining grace to both natural men and godly men ; but only there is this difference . God gives his ...
... gives such exercises of grace at that time when the temptation comes , that they are restrained . Let not the godly ... gives his restraining grace to both natural men and godly men ; but only there is this difference . God gives his ...
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... gives an interest in Christ's satisfaction and merits and a right to the benefits procured thereby , viz . , as it ... give them distinguishing names , or otherwise , than by calling the one a moral and the other a natural fitness . A ...
... gives an interest in Christ's satisfaction and merits and a right to the benefits procured thereby , viz . , as it ... give them distinguishing names , or otherwise , than by calling the one a moral and the other a natural fitness . A ...
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... give no more than himself to the object ; and therefore his gift is of greater or less value in proportion to the value of himself . Hence ( by the way ) , the love , honor , and obedience of Christ towards God , has infinite value ...
... give no more than himself to the object ; and therefore his gift is of greater or less value in proportion to the value of himself . Hence ( by the way ) , the love , honor , and obedience of Christ towards God , has infinite value ...
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Page 420 - But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you, cannot ; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Page 132 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 127 - Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 200 - At that day ye shall ask in my name : and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you : for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Page 434 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; "that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Page 311 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 641 - Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us : therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness ; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Page 368 - 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 543 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly ; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called...
Page 226 - 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.