Strictures on the Review of Dr. Spring's Dissertation on the Means of Regeneration, in the Christian Spectator for 1829Shirley and Hyde, 1829 - 64 sider |
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... doctrine of the orthodox system ; but , it is believed , that in his statements and explanations , he has adopted principles , which will lead , by inevitable consequence , to the denial of important doctrines ; and that his ...
... doctrine of the orthodox system ; but , it is believed , that in his statements and explanations , he has adopted principles , which will lead , by inevitable consequence , to the denial of important doctrines ; and that his ...
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... doctrine of the christian system ; a doctrine which is not only explicitly taught in many insulated passages of scripture , but which is inseparably connected and interwoven with all the fundamental doctrines of the gospel . In regard ...
... doctrine of the christian system ; a doctrine which is not only explicitly taught in many insulated passages of scripture , but which is inseparably connected and interwoven with all the fundamental doctrines of the gospel . In regard ...
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... doctrines , it is to be expected that they will awaken a lively interest , and be subjected to a critical ex- amination . Any one who is at all acquainted with ecclesiastical history , and who has traced the rise and progress of those ...
... doctrines , it is to be expected that they will awaken a lively interest , and be subjected to a critical ex- amination . Any one who is at all acquainted with ecclesiastical history , and who has traced the rise and progress of those ...
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... doctrine of total depravity ? Certainly not explicitly . Whether he does not do it virtually , the candid reader ... doctrines of grace ? But the reviewer has proposed a theory , which , 8.
... doctrine of total depravity ? Certainly not explicitly . Whether he does not do it virtually , the candid reader ... doctrines of grace ? But the reviewer has proposed a theory , which , 8.
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able act of giving action acts dictated affirm agency antece antecedent to regeneration Arminianism Calvinists change of heart character Christ Consequently constitute contemplation conviction counteracted denote described desperate efforts direct and desperate divine grace divine Spirit doctrine efforts to fix enmity entirely depraved fact feelings fix his heart giving the heart glory gospel heart is changed highest happiness holy affection Holy Spirit immediate repentance indivisible influence intent and engrossing loves happiness means of grace means of regeneration mental acts mind moral act moral agent motives nature object of supreme objects of holy obligation performance of duty perverseness present principle is suspended process of thought produce regeneration prompts reader reason regard renewing the heart reviewer's scripture self-love selfish principle suspended sense sinful acts sinner solemn consideration soul supreme affection supreme selfishness suspending selfishness term regeneration terms of mercy tion totally depraved ultimate end unrenewed voluntary act
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Side 32 - And when he came to himself, he said, how many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger...
Side 46 - Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man ? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth ; but God that giveth the increase.
Side 42 - And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
Side 19 - This self-love or desire of happiness is the primary cause or reason of all acts of preference or choice which fix supremely on any object.
Side 10 - God or in the world; let him pursue this inquiry, if need be, till it result in the conviction that such happiness is to be found in God only ; and let him follow up this conviction with that intent and engrossing contemplation of the realities which truth discloses, and with that stirring up of his sensibilities in view of them, which shall invest the world, when considered as his only portion, with an aspect of insignificance, of gloom and even of terror, and which shall chill and suspend his present...
Side 19 - Of all specific voluntary action, the happiness of the agent, in some form, is the ultimate end...
Side 10 - Divine truth does not become a means to this end, until the selfish principle so long , cherished in the heart is suspended; and the mind is left to the control of that constitutional desire of happiness which is an original principle of our nature. Then it is, we apprehend, that God and the world are contemplated by the mind as objects of choice, substantially as they would be by a being who had just entered on existence, and who was called upon for the first time to select the one or the other...
Side 46 - We have this treasure in earthen vessels/ says St. Paul, speaking of the great Christian behest, entrusted to the ministry, ' we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us.
Side 19 - The answer which human consciousness gives, is, that the being constituted with a capacity for happiness desires to be happy ; and knowing that he is capable of deriving happiness from different objects, considers from which the greatest happiness may be derived, and as in this respect he judges or estimates their relative value, so he chooses or prefers the one or the other as his chief good.
Side 10 - We have already said that the sinner is the subject of that constitutional desire of happiness, called self-love, to which no moral quality pertains. Let the sinner then, as a being who loves happiness and desires the highest degree of it, under the influence of such a desire, take into solemn consideration the question whether the highest happiness is to be found in God or...