| Joseph Adshead - Baptism - 1852 - 346 pages
...and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. CHAP. IX. OГ FREE WILL. 1. God hath indued the will of man with that natural liberty and power of acting upon choice, that it is (A) neither forced, nor by any necessity of nature determined to do good or evil. (A) Matt. xvii. 12.—... | |
| Cotton Mather - New England - 1853 - 696 pages
...ways as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation. CHAPTER IX OF FREE-WILL. I. GOD hath endued the will of man with that natural...forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to do good or evil. II. Man in his state of innocency had freedom and power to will and... | |
| Cotton Mather - New England - 1853 - 696 pages
...as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation. CHAPTER IX. OF FREE-WILL. I. GOD hath endued the will of man with that natural...forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to do good or evil. II. Man in his state of innocency had freedom and power to will and... | |
| Lyman Beecher - 1853 - 480 pages
...Confession of Faith of the Presbyterian and Congregational churches means,* that " God hath enclucJ the will of man with that natural liberty and power...neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to do good or evil;" BO that by his decrees " neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence... | |
| James Porter - Methodism - 1853 - 516 pages
...good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions . "III. OF FREE WILL. " God hath endued the will of man with that natural...acting upon choice, that it is neither forced, nor by atiy absolute necessity of nature determined, to do good or evil. " Man, in his state of innocency,... | |
| Cotton Mather - New England - 1853 - 692 pages
...dispensation. CHAPTER IX. OF FBEE-WILL. I. GOD hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty an power of acting upon choice, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolut necessity of nature, determined to do good or evil. II. Man in his state of innocency had freedom... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1855 - 124 pages
...ways as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation. CHAPTER IX. Of Free,will. GOD hath endued the will of man with that natural...neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to do good or evil. II. Man in his state of innocency had freedom and power to will and... | |
| John Warner Barber - New England - 1856 - 644 pages
...are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained unto everlasting death.' The first pair ' being the root, and by God's appointment standing...neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to do good or evil.' ' Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they... | |
| John Warner Barber - New England - 1856 - 636 pages
...are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained unto everlasting death.' The first pair ' being the root, and by God's appointment standing...neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to do good or evil.' ' Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they... | |
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