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God could not make the creature to be great and glorious in itself; this is as impossible, as for God to create beings into a state of independence on himself.
An Humble, Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Clergy (1761)
All possible goodness that either can be named, or is nameless, was in God from all eternity, and must to all eternity be inseparable from him; it can be nowhere but where God is.
An Humble, Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Clergy (1761)
A procedure, which could only have some excuse, if these critics could first prove, that the apostle's text ought to be thus read, "The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life."
An Humble, Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Clergy (1761)
The eternal Son of God came into the world, only for the sake of this new birth, to give God the glory of restoring it to all the dead sons of fallen Adam.
An Humble, Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Clergy (1761)
All the Law, the prophets, and the gospel are fulfilled, when there is in Christ a new creature, having life in and from him, as really as the branch has its life in and from the vine.
An Humble, Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Clergy (1761)
The highest angel has nothing of its own that it can offer unto God, no more light, love, purity, perfection, and glorious hallelujahs, that spring from itself, or its own powers, than the poorest creature upon earth.
An Humble, Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Clergy (1761)
Their adoration in spirit and in truth never ceases, because they never cease to acknowledge the ALL of God; the ALL of God in the whole creation. This is the one religion of heaven, and nothing else is the truth of religion on earth.
An Humble, Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Clergy (1761)
But the Christian, that trusts in his own light, is the very Jew that trusted in his own righteousness; and all that he gets by the gospel, is only that which the Pharisee got by the Law, namely, to be further from entering into the kingdom of God than publicans and harlots.
An Humble, Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Clergy (1761)