An Essay on RedemptionLockyer Davis, 1785 - 107 pàgines |
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Pàgina xiii - Jefus : who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made himfelf of no reputation, and took upon him the form of afervant, and was made in the likenefs of men : and being found in faJhlon as a man, he humbled himfelf, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the crofs.
Pàgina 133 - Love, then, consists in this: not that we have loved God, but that he has loved us and has sent his Son as an offering for our sins.
Pàgina 109 - For our rejoicing is this, the teftimony of our ' "confcience, that in fimplicity and godly finceri' ty, not with flefhly wifdom, but by the grace * of God, we have had our converfation in the * world, and more abundantly to you»wards.
Pàgina 133 - that they may be able to comprehend with all saints, the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of the love of God in Christ which passes knowledge.
Pàgina 142 - For every created thing was a negation or non-entity, before it had a pofitive being, and it had only fo much of its primitive negation taken away from it, as it had pofitive being conferred on it ; and therefore, fo far forth as it is, its being is to be attributed to the fovereign caufe that produced it : bu,t fo far forth as it is pot, its not being is to be attributed to the original non-entity out of which it was produced.
Pàgina 244 - Chauncy claimed that a chasm would be worse, but he did not believe that "any other world which is metaphysically capable of existence would be worse." Quite the contrary. He reasoned that "a better world than this, more perfect, and more powerfully adapted to make happy, might be created by the Deity; but then it ought to be remembered, such a better world may be already one of the links in the diversified chain of existence."53 Not only might there be a better world; perhaps humans— sufficiently...
Pàgina 107 - Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things conu tained in the law, thefe, having not the law, are a law unto M themfelves ; which mew the work of the law written in their " hearts, their confcience alfo bearing witnefs, and their thoughts " the mean while accufing, or elfe excufing one another.
Pàgina 210 - to reduce them to a right conduct, if they have been faulty, and to preserve them inviolable in their attachment to virtue, if they have been innocent."42 As for the "sufferings of the virtuous, by the wickedness of the vicious...
Pàgina 104 - Divine Benevolence Asserted and Vindicated from the Objections of Ancient and Modern Sceptics.
Pàgina 131 - But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet finners, Chrift died for us.