An Essay in Which the Doctrine of a Positive Divine Efficiency

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The contrasts, to which we allude are such as these: Now the works of the flesh are But the fruit of the spirit is love, manifest, which are these.adultery, joy, peace, long.suffering, gentle. fornication, uncleanness, lascivi. ness, goodness, faith, meekness, ousness, idolatry, witchcraft, ha- tempe...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The contrasts, to which we allude are such as these: Now the works of the flesh are But the fruit of the spirit is love, manifest, which are these.adultery, joy, peace, long.suffering, gentle. fornication, uncleanness, lascivi. ness, goodness, faith, meekness, ousness, idolatry, witchcraft, ha- tempe ranee. . tred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, sedition, heresies, murders, drunkenness, revellines and such like. Gal. ?, 18?23. The field is the world; the good But the tares are tbe children seed are the children of the king- of the wicked one; the enemy om; . that sowed them is the devil. Matt. xiii, 38. When a strong man armed keep- But when a stronger than liu em his palaoe, his goods are in shall come upon him, and over. peace. come him, he taketh from him all liis armor wherein he trusted and divideth his spoils. Lake si, 21, 22. ' Lo this only have I found, that But they have sought out many God made man upright; inventions. Eccl. 7. For thou hast made him a little Wherefore as by one man, sin lower than the angels, and crown- entered into the world, and death ed him witli glory, and honor. by sin. Kom.v, 18. Psalm viii, 5. Oh Israel thou hast destroyed thyself; But to as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God; who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Johni, 12, 13. Butin me is thy help Hosca IXj 13. But if Gospel be hid, it a bid to them that are lost; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. Cor. iv, 3, 4. If we love one aaother, God He that committethsm.is of the dwelleth in us. 1 John iv, 12. devil. 1 Jo...