Dialogues, Letters, and Essays, on Various Subjects: To which is Annexed, An Essay on Truth

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S. Swift, 1811 - 251 pages

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Page 245 - loose livers, they will not be at a loss to find preachers after their own heart... Thus error is propagated, and thus it was propagated from a very early period. " The time will come, (said Paul to Timothy,) when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,,
Page 252 - errors of the age, in all probability, attaches to them ; and though it were otherwise, yet they are directed to carry it benevolently towards others who may err ; " In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God, peradventure, will give them repentance, to the acknowledging of the truth*." Finally : There is an important difference between
Page 235 - that they would have been exhorted to " look diligently, lest any man should fail of the grace of God ; lest any root of bitterness springing up should trouble them, and thereby many be defiled ; lest there should be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold hie birthright;
Page 44 - to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ ; neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the school authors say,) deserve grace of congruity : Yea, rather, for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they have the nature of sin*.
Page 82 - the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them-; but because they are spiritually discerned ? A. spiritual or holy temper of heart is that in the reception of gospel truth, which a relish for poetry is in entering into the spirit of a Milton, or a
Page 208 - of the world had been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in., heavenly places, might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God*.
Page 213 - Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—Surely I come quickly.
Page 215 - dead shall live, my deceased, they shall arise : awake and sing ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the deadf.
Page 213 - the coming of the day of God—And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to
Page 110 - grace, then is it no more of works ; otherwise grace is no more grace : but if it be of works, then is it no more grace ; otherwise

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