 In regeneration there is a power conferred ; conversion is the exercise of this power. In regeneration there is given us a principle to turn ; conversion is our actual turning ; that is the principle whereby we are brought out of a state of nature into...  The Christian history, ed. by T. Prince - Page 47edited by - 1744Full view - About this book
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 620 pages
...and Africa, shall be renewed, sanctified, and saved. Millions, who are yet to be born in sin, shall be brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace. Christ shall reign till his kingdom shall extend from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 640 pages
...upon which they are justified. I. I am to describe true believers. These are persons who have been brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace. All men are by nature morally depraved, and entirely destitute of the least degree of true love to... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 640 pages
...upon which they are justified. I. I am to describe true believers. These are persons who have been brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace. All men are by nature morally depraved, and entirely destitute of the least degree of true love to... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1843 - 116 pages
...given us a principle to turn ; conversion is the actual turning. That is the principle wherehy we are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace ; and conversion is the actual fixing on God as the terminus ad quern. One gives posse agere, the other... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - 676 pages
...ffieaL_templatioji to Ijijfr When theTTr has^Eeen such a time of great and long continued adness, and many are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace, in so extraordinary a manner, and filled with such uncommon degrees of light, it is natural for such... | |
 | rev. Archibald Currie - 1854 - 156 pages
...easily opened, becomes more securely sealed. What a contrast, however, takes place when sinners are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace ! Then, instead of possessing "the hard and stony heart" against sin, they have " a broken and contrite... | |
 | rev. Archibald Currie - 1855 - 272 pages
...the mind;" and, likewise, serve the "god of this world." So it is not, however, with those who are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace, and who constitute " the Chwch," not in name but in reality, not by profession but by practice. For... | |
 | Matthew Mead - 1856 - 258 pages
...God. Now, this call is a special work of the Spirifc, by the ministry of the word, whereby a man is brought out of a state of nature, into a state of grace ; " out of darkness into light, from being vessels of wrath, to be made heirs of life." I grant, that... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1856 - 662 pages
...this sinful error. When there has been such a time of great and long continued deadness, and many are brought out of a state of nature into a state of grace, in so extraordinary a manner, and filled with such uncommon degrees of light, it is natural for such... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1856 - 474 pages
...into Baptismal Transubstantiation. Our Church asserts the change of. state in Baptism, that we are brought out of a state of Nature into a state of Grace, into the Kingdom of God, that we are brought into that Church, which is the body of Christ: it also... | |
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