 | Philip Schaff - Church history - 1877 - 948 pages
...adoption ; they be made like the image of his only-begotten Son Jesus Christ ; they walk religiously in good works ; and at length, by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity. But such as are not predestinated to salvation shall finally be condemned for their sins.8 16. The... | |
 | William Mason - Devotional calendars - 1765 - 522 pages
...adoption : they be made like the image of his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ : they walk religiously in good works, and at length, by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity." " Hold fast the form of sound words." MARCH 2. — Therefore all things whatsoever ye would •that... | |
 | John Gill - Theology, Doctrinal - 1796 - 570 pages
...expressed in the seventeenth Article of the church of England, that the consideration of this doctrine is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons: and as for the charge of licentiousness, what is there but what a wicked man may abuse to encourage himself... | |
 | John Wesley, George Story - Christianity - 1818 - 934 pages
...and works of mercy, without insisting on that change of heart which is essential to their " feeling in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and drawing np their mind to high and heavenly things." (Article xvii.) To " evangelical ministers, and... | |
 | 1803 - 490 pages
...1803- Gtf ' * ing ing in due seasen ; they, through grace, obey the calling ; they walk religiously in good works ; and at length, by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting happiness." Now these particulars cannot be predicated of all the baptized, whence I infer that Elect... | |
 | William Huntington - Arminianism - 1802 - 522 pages
...adoption ; they be made like the image of his only-begotten Son Jesus Christ ; they walk religiously in good works; and at length, by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity.' See. The Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, art. 17, Of Predestination and Election. Secondly,... | |
 | William Mason - Calendars - 1803 - 402 pages
...sweet and comfortable words of ' the 17th article of the established church. Our pious reformers say, * The godly consideration of predestination, and our...the works of the flesh and their earthly members, iitiA drawing up their minds to high and heavenly things. It doth greatly establish and confirm their... | |
 | William Mason - Calendars - 1803 - 400 pages
...sweet and comfortable words of the 17th article of the established church. Our pious reformers say, * The godly consideration of predestination, and our...working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of che flesh and their earthly members, and drawing up their minds to high and heavenly things. It doth... | |
 | Holy Spirit - 1805 - 298 pages
...by God's mercy, attain to everlasting felicity. That the godly consideration of Predestination and Election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable, comfort to godly persons, who are such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - 1806 - 502 pages
...Christians, " to godly persons and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, the godly consideration of predestination and our...full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort;" and to such only, because they experience the thing, and enjoy it, not as a curious dry speculation,... | |
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As the godly consideration of Predestination, and our Election in Christ, is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the Works of the flesh, and... 
