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Adam had a power to do every good work the law required ; which men, since the fall have not. Men indeed, in an unregene- rate state, might do many things which they do not ; such as reading the Scriptures, attending on public worship, ...
This sense of the words much obtains among learned men. § And if either of these senses be received, the reasonings of the Arminians from these words, in favour of any branch of their scheme, fall to the ground ...
... under the immediate government of God, in a certain period of time ; and not of all mankind ; and so fall abundantly short of proving that the state of man in this world, is such a state of probation as before described. 2.
Angels and man both, have been in a state of probation already, in which their freewill, and power to obey the commands of God, have been sufficiently tried ; which trial has issued in the fall and ruin of a large number of angels, ...
The consideration of the will of man in the several states of innocence, the fall, regeneration, and glorification, serves much to lead us into the true nature and notion of the liberty and power of it. Man, in his state of innocence, ...
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The Cause of God and Truth: In Four Parts with a Vindication of Part IV John Gill Limited preview - 2001 |