The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall ...: With a Life of the Author, and a Collection of His LettersJ.H. Parker, 1844 - Sermons, English |
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... divine out of the pulpit declaim against school divinity to his equally ignorant auditors . It is but as the fox in the fable , who having lost his own tail by a mischance , would have persuaded all his fellows to cut off theirs and ...
... divine out of the pulpit declaim against school divinity to his equally ignorant auditors . It is but as the fox in the fable , who having lost his own tail by a mischance , would have persuaded all his fellows to cut off theirs and ...
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... Divine essence , which is one . But the distinction is in order to the objects or things willed . Nor , lastly , do we make this permission to be a naked or a mere permission . God causeth all good , permitteth all evil , disposeth all ...
... Divine essence , which is one . But the distinction is in order to the objects or things willed . Nor , lastly , do we make this permission to be a naked or a mere permission . God causeth all good , permitteth all evil , disposeth all ...
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... Divine justice is not measured by omnipotence , or by " irresistible power , " but by God's will . God can do many things according to His absolute power which He doth not ; He " could raise [ Matt . iii . up children to Abraham of ...
... Divine justice is not measured by omnipotence , or by " irresistible power , " but by God's will . God can do many things according to His absolute power which He doth not ; He " could raise [ Matt . iii . up children to Abraham of ...
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... Divine goodness , and all created rectitude is but a par- ticipation of Divine rectitude ; so all laws are but participa- tions of the eternal law , from whence they derive their power . The rule of justice then is the same both in God ...
... Divine goodness , and all created rectitude is but a par- ticipation of Divine rectitude ; so all laws are but participa- tions of the eternal law , from whence they derive their power . The rule of justice then is the same both in God ...
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... Divine wisdom , by which all creatures are directed to that end which is convenient for theme ; that is not , to necessitate them to eternal flames : then , the law parti- cipated ; which is the ordination of right reason , instituted ...
... Divine wisdom , by which all creatures are directed to that end which is convenient for theme ; that is not , to necessitate them to eternal flames : then , the law parti- cipated ; which is the ordination of right reason , instituted ...
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Page 427 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Page 316 - That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee : Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right...
Page 71 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction ; and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory...
Page 244 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 65 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Page 489 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 286 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 311 - Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God...
Page 54 - And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
Page 77 - But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.