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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Edwards on purity of heart, or, rather, the lack of it
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"At last, when it came to extremity, Pharaoh consented to let the people all go, and all that they had; but he was not steadfastly ...
Friday, November 28, 2008
Sterne on the rules of composition
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"in writing what I have set about, I shall confine myself neither to [Horace's] rules, nor to any man's rules that ever lived....
Vallin on the distinction between creatio ex nihilo and creatio ab novo
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"Creation ex nihilo isn't just tenable, it is demonstrable metaphysically. . . . Creation de novo, the fact of the beginning in t...
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Grace does not render the nature it elevates impure
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"God is not, within his creation, the rival of [the] person, and his grace does not render the nature it elevates impure." Ph. Val...
Friday, October 24, 2008
Buckley on a near-fatal lost opportunity
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"If Leonard Lessius and Marin Mersenne, two of the most influential theologians of their time, among the first to write against the ear...
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Edwards on Christian fortitude
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"Though Christian fortitude appears in withstanding and counteracting the enemies that are without us; yet it much more appears in resi...
When God moves the will
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"just as by moving natural causes He does not prevent their acts being natural, so by moving voluntary causes He does not deprive their...
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