The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick, Volume 6 |
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... God's sight ; and when the worst comes upon us here from our Father for sin , we must still say , " That with us he ... God's fatherly hand . So that a guilty conscience in a believer , fearing a stroke from the hand of God , doth not ...
... God's sight ; and when the worst comes upon us here from our Father for sin , we must still say , " That with us he ... God's fatherly hand . So that a guilty conscience in a believer , fearing a stroke from the hand of God , doth not ...
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... God but that which is perfect , it remains that believers , at their first believing , are reputed perfectly ... God's word ; for to expect a benefit not promised , were too great rash- ness : but such a promise I confess I have ...
... God but that which is perfect , it remains that believers , at their first believing , are reputed perfectly ... God's word ; for to expect a benefit not promised , were too great rash- ness : but such a promise I confess I have ...
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... God's elect ? " viz . those of them that believe . Synec . generis . The interrogation is a strong denial . Q. d . None shall lay any thing to their charge . † The word encaleo here used , signifies to enter action or suit against a man ...
... God's elect ? " viz . those of them that believe . Synec . generis . The interrogation is a strong denial . Q. d . None shall lay any thing to their charge . † The word encaleo here used , signifies to enter action or suit against a man ...
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... God's dispensation , cannot be wanted , Is . xxvii . 6 ; but eternal wrath is not so . And I think it is no solecism to say , that as the taking off of temporal strokes in due time , so the laying them on in due season , is a fruit of ...
... God's dispensation , cannot be wanted , Is . xxvii . 6 ; but eternal wrath is not so . And I think it is no solecism to say , that as the taking off of temporal strokes in due time , so the laying them on in due season , is a fruit of ...
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... God it hath to do with , how hard is it to attain suitable apprehensions of the riches of his grace ? And therefore the woful remains of corruption whereby we are inclined to measure God's ways by our own , start that question ...
... God it hath to do with , how hard is it to attain suitable apprehensions of the riches of his grace ? And therefore the woful remains of corruption whereby we are inclined to measure God's ways by our own , start that question ...
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Page 553 - For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Page 257 - And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God [in Christ], the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Page 244 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...
Page 598 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Page 535 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand ; and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, king of the Jews ! And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
Page 576 - With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 510 - Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer...
Page 262 - And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Page 562 - Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good ; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Page 265 - Which things are an allegory : for these are the two covenants ; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.