An Essay on the Several Dispensations of God to Mankind, in the Order, in which They Lie in the Bible: Or, A Short System of the Religion of Nature and Scripture: With a Preface, Shewing the Causes of the Growth of Infidelity ... And an Appendix ... |
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Page 121 - believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him for righteousness,
Page 24 - For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace ; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed ; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all (as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee...
Page 153 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, 0 God, is for ever and ever ; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Page 14 - There always was, and always will be, an enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman.
Page 67 - ... If any prints of our old vice remain'd By thee they'r void, and fear shall leave the Land; He a God's life shall take, with Gods shall see Mixt Heroes, and himself their object be; Rule with paternal power th' appeased Earth He shall Then he adds, that thence the fall of the Serpent, and the poison of the tree of death, or of the knowledge of good and evil, shall be nulled, saying: The Serpent shall And the deceitful Herb of Venom fall. Yet he intimates that some sparks of original sin shall...
Page 66 - Oh ! the depth of the riches, both of the wifdom and knowledge of God ! How unfearchable are his judgments, and his ways paft finding out ! For who hath known the mind of the Lord ? or who hath been hiscounfellor?
Page 13 - It was fitting then in God's mercy that, as the woman began the destruction of the world, so woman should also begin its recovery, and...
Page 150 - David, according to the flesh ; ' and it follows, ' declared to be the Son of God, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.
Page 120 - We Fools counted his Life Madnefs, and his End to be without Honour. How is he numbrcd among the Children, of God, and his Lot is among the Saints...
Page 129 - Text, arc not the whole difperfed Number that were at Babel, but the Inhabitants of Canaan; and the true Meaning of the Words of!, Mofes is this, that when God divided to the Nations their Inheritance, when he feparated the Sons of Adam, he fet the (a) Many Writers have leen of this Opinion, tut the Greek Fathers make the Number 72.