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When the Ethiopian change his skin, and the leopard his spots, then may they also do good, who are accustomed to do evil. Men may expect as soon to gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles, as good fruit to grow upon, or good works ...
... in show and appearance only ; he acted from no right principle, nor to any right end; and therefore his works, whatever . show of righteousness they might have, are, by the apostle John,f rightly called evil ; as are also all the ...
The liberty of the will does not consist in an indifference to good and evil, or in an indetermination to either ; otherwise the will of no being would be free ; for God, as he is essentially and naturally good, his will is determined ...
Man, in his state of innocence, had both a power and will to do that .which was naturally and morally good ; though his will was left mutable, and so through temptation might be inclined to evil, at which door came in the sin and fall ...
Supposing what is here proposed to be chosen is spiritually good, and what to be refused is spiritually evil; it does not follow from hence that man has a power to choose the one and refuse the other ; for, as Luther* says, ...
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The Cause of God and Truth: In Four Parts with a Vindication of Part IV John Gill Limited preview - 2001 |