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:ORIGINAL RIGHTEOUSNESS223have seen it before the storm destroyed it " so say we to this age " Do you call this fallen man glorious? Compared to what he ought But he was glorious before sin ruined to be he is utterly worthless. him, shining in all the beauty of the divine ima ...
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!INTRODUCTION224Altho it acknowledges that a few remains are retained, yet it follows that " all the light which is in us is changed into darkness "; and it says before that " man is become wicked, perverse, and corrupt in all his ways," and " that he has corrupted his whole ...
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:;ORIGINAL RIGHTEOUSNESS ought to do."Optimi coruptio pessimal" says the proverb of thewise— /.<?., the greater the excellency ous225of a thing, themore danger-the admiral of the fleet were to choose which of his ships should betra ...
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— INTRODUCTION226after-effects of the divineimage are not found in the few goodthings that remain in the sinner,"but in all that he does"Man couldnot sin so terribly if God had not created htm after His own image. Scripture teaches, therefor ...
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—:VI.Rome. Socinus, Arminius, *'And thatye put on the new man, whichGodafterCalvin.iscreated in righteousnessand true holiness." ItisEphes.iv. 24.not surprising that believers entertain differ ...
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INTRODUCTION228God gave to man from way that he was partakerquestion 38 insuch a:"the dust of the earth a body, of immortality notby virtueby a superadded grace. As to his soul, God His image and after His likeness, and gave him a ...
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ROME, SOCINUS, ARMINIUS, CALVIN playing with lions and tigers asWeof God.say this inallifpet dogs,is229the tenderest childseriousness and without a thought ofmockery, to show the foolishness of the Socinian system. The L ...
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:ROME, SOCINUS, ARMINIUS, CALVIN and expresshis being; not as tho thistive without steam,human being were231a locomo-posing as a model, but a living and activeorganism exerting influence and power. As a being man is not defective, but perfec ...
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INTRODUCTION230opposing opinions that are clearly drawn and sharply outlined.The Socinian conceives ofman andof thehis moral being,image of God as entirely outside and consisting in the exercise ofsomething resembling divine authority. The R ...
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—VII.The Neo-Kohlbruggians. " AndAdam lived a hundredand thirty and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; andyears,called hisnameGen. v.Seth."3.made to alter the meaning of the word, Our image and after O ...