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... means to darken these truths and facts upon which these laws are founded , that they may render revelation doubtful and uncertain ; and further , that they may make it quite needless , they labour , to advance Reason as a sufficient ...
... means to darken these truths and facts upon which these laws are founded , that they may render revelation doubtful and uncertain ; and further , that they may make it quite needless , they labour , to advance Reason as a sufficient ...
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... means to obtain what you pray for , namely , To instruct the rising generation in the knowledge of Christ . This would make your piety extend to ages to come ; for your example herein may be a motive to them to tread in the same steps ...
... means to obtain what you pray for , namely , To instruct the rising generation in the knowledge of Christ . This would make your piety extend to ages to come ; for your example herein may be a motive to them to tread in the same steps ...
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... mean time attending and go- ing along with the person reading or repeating , with their several books if they have them ... means of in- struction in the season of youth , and carefully to prepare for and attend all diets of catechising ...
... mean time attending and go- ing along with the person reading or repeating , with their several books if they have them ... means of in- struction in the season of youth , and carefully to prepare for and attend all diets of catechising ...
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... mean by man's chief end ? A. The main thing which man should intend and aim at in his living in the world , and look upon as the great design of his creation .. Q. What is that great and chief end ? A. In the answer it is branched out ...
... mean by man's chief end ? A. The main thing which man should intend and aim at in his living in the world , and look upon as the great design of his creation .. Q. What is that great and chief end ? A. In the answer it is branched out ...
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... means of attaining to that end , viz . the scriptures . Q. Why do we call the word of God the Scriptures ? . We call God's word the Scriptures , that is , Writings , by way of eminence ; because they are the most valuable and useful ...
... means of attaining to that end , viz . the scriptures . Q. Why do we call the word of God the Scriptures ? . We call God's word the Scriptures , that is , Writings , by way of eminence ; because they are the most valuable and useful ...
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Page 171 - That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
Page 47 - Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
Page 64 - God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a Redeemer.
Page 70 - The only Redeemer of God's elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was, and continueth to be, God and man, in two distinct natures, and one person for ever.
Page 105 - Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel.
Page 89 - Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a Low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.
Page 158 - I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Page 145 - The sum of the ten commandments is, To love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind ; and our neighbour as ourselves.
Page 53 - The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called Original Sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.
Page 176 - The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.