American Presbyterian and Theological ReviewHenry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood C. Scribner, 1862 - Presbyterianism |
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... course , all that is necessary to make out that Dr. Emmons was not an Emmonsite , is to interpret his definite formulas in an indefinite sense , for the essence of his system is in its definiteness . Keen logic and exegetical skill can ...
... course , all that is necessary to make out that Dr. Emmons was not an Emmonsite , is to interpret his definite formulas in an indefinite sense , for the essence of his system is in its definiteness . Keen logic and exegetical skill can ...
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... course conjecture ; but if it does not mean a great deal more than all the rest of the passage , this interpretation reduces " second causes " to a very insignificant affair . Did not Emmons mean to include the will , as well as motives ...
... course conjecture ; but if it does not mean a great deal more than all the rest of the passage , this interpretation reduces " second causes " to a very insignificant affair . Did not Emmons mean to include the will , as well as motives ...
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... course , by the divine agency . The moral exercises , those of the heart or will ( which Emmons does not sunder ) , * are termed Volitions . These Volitions , and volitions alone , have a moral character ; each one of them is either ...
... course , by the divine agency . The moral exercises , those of the heart or will ( which Emmons does not sunder ) , * are termed Volitions . These Volitions , and volitions alone , have a moral character ; each one of them is either ...
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... course is possibly subsequent to , the essence , attributes or tendencies . Distinguishable in thought , they may also be in the order of time - so far forth as they are finite . The peculiarity , now , of Emmons's metaphysics and ...
... course is possibly subsequent to , the essence , attributes or tendencies . Distinguishable in thought , they may also be in the order of time - so far forth as they are finite . The peculiarity , now , of Emmons's metaphysics and ...
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... course , I have kept the faith , henceforth , etc. Such an accomplishment was worthy of a strenuous theory , even if a * point were strained in making it .. The main difficulty was in reconciling his love for Exercises , with his hatred ...
... course , I have kept the faith , henceforth , etc. Such an accomplishment was worthy of a strenuous theory , even if a * point were strained in making it .. The main difficulty was in reconciling his love for Exercises , with his hatred ...
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Page 419 - But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
Page 23 - Also a Cheap Edition in I vol., 6s. Gordon's (General) Last Journal. A Facsimile of the last Journal received in England from GENERAL GORDON. Reproduced by Photo-lithography. Imperial 410, £3 y. Events in his Life. From the Day of his Birth to the Day of his Death.
Page 222 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth ; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
Page 705 - To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 223 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away- their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 718 - ... judgments in this land throughout all ages ; whereby this great and warlike nation, instructed and inured to the fervent and continual practice of truth and righteousness...
Page 336 - For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ; ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 647 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Page 528 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 742 - The day is past and over; All thanks, O LORD, to THEE...