Strictures on a Sermon by Edward D. Griffin ...: Published in the National Preacher, for Feb. 1832. The Design of which are to Exhibit and Defend what is Miscalled "New Divinity."

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J. Leavitt, 1832 - 39 pages
 

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Page 29 - And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days. 32 And they were astonished at his doctrine : for his word was with power.
Page 30 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 19 - I might further observe, the state of the mind that views a proposed object of choice, is another thing that contributes to the agreeableness or disagreeableness of that object: the particular temper which the mind has by nature, or that has been introduced and established by education, example, custom, or some other means, or the frame or state that the mind is in on a particular occasion.
Page 2 - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York.
Page 30 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and give you an heart of flesh, and I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes.
Page 19 - The brute creatures are not moral Agents. The actions of some of them are very profitable and pleasant ; others are very hurtful ; yet, seeing they have no moral faculty, or sense of desert, and do not act from choice guided by understanding, or with a capacity of reasoning and reflecting, but only from instinct, and are not capable of being influenced by moral inducements...
Page 19 - A moral agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty.
Page 39 - ... they that be wise shall shine as the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
Page 19 - ... act from choice guided by understanding, or with a capacity of reasoning and reflecting, but only from instinct, and are not capable of being influenced by moral inducements, their actions are not properly sinful or virtuous ; nor are they properly the subjects of any such moral treatment for what they do, as moral Agents are for their faults or good deeds.
Page 29 - ... they shall be my people." In regard to the means by which this transformation is produced, their language is, " The sower soweth the word." " Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." " It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe." " In Christ Jesus have I begotten you through the gospel.

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