Letters on the Origin and Progress of the New Haven TheologyR. Carter and E. Collier, 1837 - 180 páginas |
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Página 166 - And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power : in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Página 161 - call evil good, and good evil ; put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
Página 91 - Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Página 138 - How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman ? Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Página 90 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Página 19 - Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Página 72 - The answer which human consciousness gives, is, that the being constituted with a capacity for happiness desires to be happy ; and knowing that he is capable of deriving happiness from different objects, considers from which the greatest happiness may be derived, and as in this respect he judges or estimates their relative value, so he chooses or prefers the one or the other as his chief good.
Página 51 - ... with holding opinions which he knows I do not hold! But what are these opinions ? The first is, that " before God will interpose to renew the sinner's heart, he must give up his idols — he must submit to divine authority, and cease to be a rebel." The other is, " that the reason, why the sinner prefers the world to God is, that he has mistaken the true way of securing his highest happiness.
Página 121 - If holiness in a moral system be preferable on the whole to sin in its stead, why did not a benevolent God, were it possible to him, prevent all sin and secure the prevalence of universal holiness? Would not a moral universe of perfect holiness, and of course of perfect happiness, be happier and better than one comprising sin and its miseries?
Página 122 - God does not will sin as sin, or for the sake of any thing evil ; though it be his pleasure so to order things, that, He permitting, sin will come to pass, for the sake of the great good that by his disposal shall be the consequence.