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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... difference between a will active and a will permissive , or a will causing the act and a will causing the sin . J. D.'s Reply . The passage of St. Paul explained , as to its general scope . in its particular passages . - 1. How Jacob ...
... difference between a will active and a will permissive , or a will causing the act and a will causing the sin . J. D.'s Reply . The passage of St. Paul explained , as to its general scope . in its particular passages . - 1. How Jacob ...
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... difference must be in ourselves ; either in our intellectuals , because the one sees clearer than the other , or in our affections , which betray our understandings , and produce an implicit adherence in the one more than in the other ...
... difference must be in ourselves ; either in our intellectuals , because the one sees clearer than the other , or in our affections , which betray our understandings , and produce an implicit adherence in the one more than in the other ...
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... difference between de- termining , and being determined . If all the collateral causes concurring to the production of an effect , were antecedently determined , what they must of necessity produce , and when they must produce it , then ...
... difference between de- termining , and being determined . If all the collateral causes concurring to the production of an effect , were antecedently determined , what they must of necessity produce , and when they must produce it , then ...
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... difference . If his will do not " come upon him according to his will , " then he is not a free , nor yet so much as a voluntary agent , which is T. H. his liberty . Certainly all the freedom of the agent is from the freedom of the will ...
... difference . If his will do not " come upon him according to his will , " then he is not a free , nor yet so much as a voluntary agent , which is T. H. his liberty . Certainly all the freedom of the agent is from the freedom of the will ...
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... difference between me and myself . But the truth is , he is not able to prove any such thing ; and that brings me to my sixth consideration : - 6. [ Irra- tional be- ings nei- ther de- liberate nor elect . ] I That neither horses , nor ...
... difference between me and myself . But the truth is , he is not able to prove any such thing ; and that brings me to my sixth consideration : - 6. [ Irra- tional be- ings nei- ther de- liberate nor elect . ] I That neither horses , nor ...
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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.