their museums and replaced by the depressing, the ugly, the abstract, the anti-American. They watch as books they cherished disappear from the schools they attended, to be replaced by authors and titles they never heard of. The moral code that they were raised to live by has
“The character, customs, nature, attitude, and viewpoint of the people are to be sought and learned from the nature and location of a region, and from the age, condition, circumstances, and education of the people therein. One learns about the nature of men from the location of
where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign,
Surely this glorious ordinance is more than an effigy or representation of Christ. Why is the Lord’s Supper called ‘the communion of the body of Christ’ (1 Cor. 10:16), but because, in the right celebration of it, we have sweet communion with Christ? In this gospel ordinance,
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sufficient for the attainment of heavenly life and everlasting felicity. Man, when he withdrew his allegiance to God, was deprived of the spiritual gifts by which he had been raised to the hope of eternal salvation. Hence it follows, that he is now an exile from the
concurs with God's grace, as a fellow or coworker in some sort. For in the conversion of a sinner three things are required: the word, God's spirit, and man's will: for man's will is not passive in all and every respect, but hath an action in the first conversion and change of
execution. Paul says Rom. 2. 14. The Gentiles that have not the law do the things of the law BY NATURE, that is, by natural strength: and he says of himself, that before his conversion touching the righteousness of the law, he was blameless, Phil. 3. 6.
determined to persist in that fervent zeal and to despise the judgment of men, following the example of Christ who in his zeal called his opponents ‘a brood of vipers,’ ‘blind fools,’ ‘hypocrites,’ ‘children of the devil’ (Matt. 23:13, 17, 33; John 8:44). Paul branded
and in this sense he was fairer than the children of men (Psalm 45:2). There was graceful majesty in his looks. Christ’s body, as some writers aver, was so fair by reason of the beauty and grace which shined in it, that no artist could ever draw it exactly. And if it was so
Lamb (Revelation 19:9), give us the wedding garment (Matthew 22:11). Awake, O north wind, and come, thou south, and blow upon our garden, that the spices thereof may flow forth; and then let our beloved come into his garden and eat his pleasant fruits (Song of Solomon 4:16).
are called reasonable creatures, not because they have present use of their reasonable faculty, but by reason of the principle of reason in them; in other words, the reasonable soul, which is capable of all arts and sciences. Therefore, (we say) express faith is required in all
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