| Richard Heber Newton - 1883 - 290 pages
...which affirms in this wise : "The light of nature ami the works of creation and Providence .... are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and of His will, which is necessary to salvation The authority of the Holy Scripture .... dependeth .... wholly upon God, the Author thereof... | |
| 1891 - 750 pages
...This statement is contrary to our standards : Confession of Faith, Chap. I., Sees. I., VI. : — I. Although the light of nature, and the works of creation...goodness, wisdom, and power of God as to leave men inexcusable, yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and of his will which is necessary... | |
| 1885 - 330 pages
...God until the coming of Him in and by whom man was to be restored to God's family and favour. For " although the light of nature and the works of creation...far manifest the goodness, wisdom and power of God, so as to leave men inexcusable, yet they are notsufficient to give that knowledge of God and of His... | |
| William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1888 - 572 pages
...the true God is guilt, Rom. 1 : 21. Accordingly, the Westminster Confession (I. i.) affirms that " the light of nature and the works of creation and...the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave man inexcusable." Sin is chargeable npon the heathen, because they have not lived up to the light of... | |
| Laurence Oliphant - 1888 - 528 pages
...so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and ' power of God as to leave man inexcusable, yet they are not ' sufficient to give that knowledge of God and of His will ' which is necessary to salvation. . . . " By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, ' some men and angels... | |
| Robert Mackintosh - 1889 - 504 pages
...such a thing as natural theology. ' The light of nature, and the works of creation and providence, so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God as to leave men inexcusable.' But natural theology cannot issue in a spiritual religion. It is not ' sufficient to... | |
| Llewelyn John Evans, Henry Preserved Smith - 1891 - 130 pages
...attention to what is most essential in that magnificent statement of the truth respecting Scripture. "Although the light of nature, and the works of creation...goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable ; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God, and of his ,will, which is... | |
| 1891 - 740 pages
...him."1 In the Westminster Confession: "The light of nature and the works of creation and providence are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and of his will which is necessary unto salvation."2 The Savoy Declaration says: "Neither do the works of creation or providence, with the... | |
| Charles Augustus Briggs - 1892 - 328 pages
...introductory sentence of the Westminster Confession of Faith is against this doctrine when it says : " Although the light of nature, and the works of creation...goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable ; yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and of his will, which is necessary... | |
| 1892 - 628 pages
...without your help or mine." It was more deliberately expressed in the •Savoy Confession, which says: "Although the light of nature and the works of creation...goodness, wisdom, and power of God as to leave men inexcusable, yet they are not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and his will which is necessary... | |
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