The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon ...: To which is Prefixed an Account of the Author's Life, in a Sermon Occasioned by His Death, Volume 4William W. Woodward, 1801 |
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... confifts of history ; and few things are more neceffary to the juft and critical ftudy of the fcriptures than an acquaintance with hiftory , with the original state and gradual progress of human fociety ; it adds greatly too , to a ...
... confifts of history ; and few things are more neceffary to the juft and critical ftudy of the fcriptures than an acquaintance with hiftory , with the original state and gradual progress of human fociety ; it adds greatly too , to a ...
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... confifts of feveral different revelations , and par- ticularly , two grand different difpenfations of providence and grace . The one of these is perfectly confiftent with , and fuited to the other . It is not eafy to fuppofe an im ...
... confifts of feveral different revelations , and par- ticularly , two grand different difpenfations of providence and grace . The one of these is perfectly confiftent with , and fuited to the other . It is not eafy to fuppofe an im ...
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... confifts ; yet it is equally certain , from revelation and reason , that natural good and evil , and moral good and evil , are to be confi- dered as not in the fame sense , the object of divine appoint- ment . This leads us to the IId ...
... confifts ; yet it is equally certain , from revelation and reason , that natural good and evil , and moral good and evil , are to be confi- dered as not in the fame sense , the object of divine appoint- ment . This leads us to the IId ...
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... confifts and their dependence one upon another , and the order itself in which they were to take place , were ordained . If the whole , then certainly every particular part as fully as the whole , is the object of one abfolute decree ...
... confifts and their dependence one upon another , and the order itself in which they were to take place , were ordained . If the whole , then certainly every particular part as fully as the whole , is the object of one abfolute decree ...
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... confifts wholly of free and gracious promises . ( See this matter well ftated in Witfius ' Economy of the Covenant . ) It is for this reafon , that it is often called a teftament , even where we have it tranflated covenant . But if ...
... confifts wholly of free and gracious promises . ( See this matter well ftated in Witfius ' Economy of the Covenant . ) It is for this reafon , that it is often called a teftament , even where we have it tranflated covenant . But if ...
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