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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... sovereign " dittanye , " to make all his adversary's weapons drop out of the wounds of his cause , only by chewing it , without any application to the sore . " I will not waste the time to shew any further , how the mem- bers of his ...
... sovereign " dittanye , " to make all his adversary's weapons drop out of the wounds of his cause , only by chewing it , without any application to the sore . " I will not waste the time to shew any further , how the mem- bers of his ...
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... sovereign magistrates ; whose power he makes to be " as absolute as a man's power is over himself , not to be limited by any thing but only by their strength . " The greatest propugners of sovereign power think it enough for princes to ...
... sovereign magistrates ; whose power he makes to be " as absolute as a man's power is over himself , not to be limited by any thing but only by their strength . " The greatest propugners of sovereign power think it enough for princes to ...
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... sovereign , and from the laws of the land , concern- ing the attributes of God and His decrees ? This is a new paradox , and concerns not this question of liberty and neces- sity . Wherefore I forbear to prosecute it further , and so ...
... sovereign , and from the laws of the land , concern- ing the attributes of God and His decrees ? This is a new paradox , and concerns not this question of liberty and neces- sity . Wherefore I forbear to prosecute it further , and so ...
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... sovereign and absolute power , to be limited by the strength of the commonwealth and by no other thing . " What ? Neither by the law of God , nor nature , nor nations , nor the munici- pal laws of the land , nor by any other thing but ...
... sovereign and absolute power , to be limited by the strength of the commonwealth and by no other thing . " What ? Neither by the law of God , nor nature , nor nations , nor the munici- pal laws of the land , nor by any other thing but ...
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... sovereign power by God Himself , have both made unjust laws , and pre- scribed unjust acts to their subjects . I said , " Those laws were unjust , which prescribed things impossible in themselves " . " Against this he excepteth ...
... sovereign power by God Himself , have both made unjust laws , and pre- scribed unjust acts to their subjects . I said , " Those laws were unjust , which prescribed things impossible in themselves " . " Against this he excepteth ...
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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.