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33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow, dear, she said,"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He won't bite, miss, will he?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, dear, no,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty doggie,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pretty doggie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Zank zou, lady,"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would spoil them to fancy them growing up into great boys or girls, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want them to be always trots--nothing else."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too told! said Doll, and Dot repeated, like a mournful echo,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course, said I,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're going to buy some cakes for tea,"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Takes for tea, they both called out at once,"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh no, with the exception of two or three cases of croup, he had no serious ailments among his patients: it was a very healthy season."
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They have probably left St. Austin's, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Many people come here for only the _very_ worst of the winter, and that is about over now."
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you, darling? I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And where is----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh lady, it said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dot is all alone. Doll is 'done to 'Ebben,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-bye, my trot,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dood bye, don't ky, said Dot, stroking my cheek."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Doll won't turn back, but Dot will do to 'Ebben too some day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mamma, I exclaimed... |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wherever you go, mamma, don't go to St. Austin's."
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But _Dot_ couldn't have been ill, mamma, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dot looked perfectly well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did he? said my mother. Sometimes she called the trots"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and sometimes"
... |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(which, children, does not mean the same thing as our English lodgings by any means), at our leisure. Your grandmother was not rich, and the coming so far cost a great deal. The hotel we had been recommended to, was a very comfortable one, though not one of the most fashionable,... |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then they must be old maids! I said, laughing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "at which Mr. Landlord bowed and smiled, and said something complimentary about mademoiselle being so"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor little trots, said mamma."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wonder if the one that was left still misses the other?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Place,"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I suddenly stopped."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, mamma!"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dip, Dip; see Bessie, here is a doggie like Dip,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dip, Dip, pretty Dip,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dip, Dip would have satisfied me, even if I had not seen them. The trots never _could_ manage the letter"
},
{
"... |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is Dip's kind lady too,"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I _am_ pleased to see you again, miss, to be sure; who would have thought it? she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And they haven't forgot you, haven't Doll and Dot. They are always speaking of Gip and you, miss."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, ... |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If only I had known last night who they were,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Think rather, she said,"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You never did? oh what a pity! exclaimed Sybil."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You really never, never did, mother?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As _trots_ I never saw them again, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you've seen th... |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must be the post,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Children, dear children, she said,"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is because you made the story of the trots end nicely that that nice letter came,"
}
] |
33544 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "together. Long ago, in so far that you would not be able _anywhere_ to find these children whom I loved so much, and whom I have told you a little about. You would, at least I _hope_ you would, like to know what became of them, how they grew up, and what Carrots did when he got ... |
382189 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now I know how that fellow Darrin wins his fights,"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, by B. Waugh and T. Mason, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York."
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every action and motion of every creature is governed by the hidden counsel of God, so that nothing can come to pass, but was ordained by him. The Assembly's Catechism is similar:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God did, from all eternity, unchangeably ordain whatev... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For how, they ask,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God, says Piscator,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And Calvin says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God therefore foreknows all things that will c... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The foreknowledge of God, it is said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is indeed shifting the argument; for if God's knowledge makes an event certain, of course it is not his predetermination. But, according to this notion, every thing contained in the idea of pre... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It cannot be conceived, it is said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But this argument is easily answered, at least for the present. For it assumes what ought to be proved; and what has not, to my knowledge, ever been proved, viz. that to deny Calvinian predestination,... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, say the advocates of this system,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If this is true, then indeed we must submit. But the question is, where are these passages? After such a strong assertion, it would probably appear surprising to one unacquainted with this subject,... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord hath made all things for himself, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil."
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He worketh all things after the counsel of his will."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will do all my pleasure. But these passage... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of sin. Others affirm it in fact, while they deny it in word. Take for instance the words of Calvin."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will not scruple to own, he says,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In accordance with this, Piscator, Dr. Twiss, Peter Ma... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God foreordains whatsoever comes to pass."
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Others, and the greater part of the Calvinist... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but by his predestination and secret counsel, he irresistibly impels them in an opposite course, for the express purpose, as this doctrine informs us, to secure their transgression. _His_ rule of action is in direct opposition to _our_ rule of duty. And yet he is the author of b... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How can I give thee up--my heart is melted within me, my repentings are kindled together, --"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! how oft would I have gathered you, and ye would not, --and still he himself"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Therefore God will not punish any of his creatures for any of their acts. Now, who can point out any fallacy in this reasoning? If therefore predestination be true, Universalism is true, according to the universally acknowledged principles of justice. And it is a notorious fact,... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But for unconditional election, predestination would not be desired, even by those who now hold to it; and but for predestination, unconditional election could not be maintained. Hence these have very properly been called"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world, hath chosen in Christ,... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate, to be conformed to the image of his Son. Thes... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "lest _they_ should"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why should St. Paul fear lest, after having preached to others, he should be a castaway? Either there is, or is not, danger of ... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For many are called, but few are chosen. This passage, with the parable of the wedding that precedes it, teaches that the _choice_ was made subsequently to the call, and was grounded on the fact, that those chosen had actually and fully complied with the invitation, and had come... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He hath chosen us from the foundation of the world, that we should be holy--having predestinated us unto the adoption of sons, &c. See also Rom. viii, 29,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image o... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The apostle shows them, too, that the covenant made with Abraham was not for circumcision, nor for the works of the law, so far as it affected him or his posterity, because it was made while Abraham was in uncircumcision, and on the co... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will have mercy on whom he will have mercy, it is said also,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whom he will he hardeneth. He that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He that says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jacob have I loved, says also in th... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God calls to the reprobates, that they may be more deaf--kindles a light, that they may be more blind--brings his doctrine to them, that they may be more ignorant--and applies the remedy to them, that they may not be healed,"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adam sinned, says Calvin,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so every one must say, that believes God foreordained whatsoever comes to pass. Taking all the links together, they stand thus:--God decreed to create intelligent beings--he decreed that they should all bec... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--that he"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--that he"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--that he became"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--because, these are so many express Scripture propositions, and rest directly on the authority of God. And whi... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I am to be saved, I shall be, do what I may; and if I am to be damned, I must be, do what I can;"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Agreement of Brethren, &c, says:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The question, as to the object of the decrees, has gone out among our Calvinistic brethren into endless digladiations and irreconcilable divisions, and then goes on to mention nine of these"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and yet"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "who taught these errors. They recommend their writings, they garnish their sepulchres, they teach their catechisms to the rising generation; they say, even in their Church articles of faith,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With such a proposition there certainly can be no controversy, for it leaves the subject more vague, and the point in dispute more confused than before a definition was attempted. There are two errors, the antipodes of each other, which, in all controversy, and especially religi... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But in what sense are we to understand the position that he (God) purposes the existence of sin? He proceeds to answer:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not necessarily, in the sense of his preferring its existence in his kingdom to its non-existence, &c. In affirming ... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so confident is the reviewer that he still believes in the _fact_ of predestination, in the old Calvinistic sense, that in stating his sentiments on this subject he uses the same forms of expression which Calvinists have used, when their meaning was as distant from his as th... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that the author of the sermon"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The sermon was against Calvinism, not Arminianism. It is true, the reviewer may say, the sermon alludes, in some parts, to the Calvinism of New-England, and therefore he felt himself implicated. But he cert... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a mistake. I said nothing about _immediate energy;_ this is an essential misrepresentation of the sermon. Again:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On Dr. Fisk's principle, it is impossible for God to use the voluntary agency of any creature, to accomplish any va... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of the author of the sermon we claim a public acknowledgment of his errors, and make justice and equity the ground of our claim. Again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If Dr. F. makes no public retraction from the ground taken in his sermon--if after he shall receive ... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but talks for most part in general terms, about the unfairness, injustice, and misrepresentations of the sermon. This circumstance would, of itself, free me from any obligation to notice these letters, on the ground of my pledge in the Observer. But yet, as I feel the most perfe... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have seen, says the editor of the Evangelist,"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dr. F. exacts that some person should be designated by a sort of common suffrage to be the champion of Calvinism. I cannot believe the editor means to misrepresent me; and yet he has done it. My words are,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Provided that the Calvinistic ... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Calvinists, as a class, are remarkable for thinking for themselves, &c. If the editor designs to say, as the natural construction would imply, that the whole class are remarkable, in their character as Calvinists, for thinking and believing differently and independently of each ... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you willing to be damned? was deemed a very good criterion by which to judge of a religious experience. While the doctrine of predestination was in this manner _going to seed_, and bearing its legitimate fruits, in one direction, it received a remarkably plausible modificati... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Calvinism Improved. It was merely an extension of the doctrines of unconditional election and irresistible grace to all instead of a part. From the premises, the reasoning seemed fair, and the conclusions legitimate. This made many converts. And this idea of universal salvation,... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "New Divinity. The theological doctors connected with Yale college are the reputed authors of this system. It is evident, however, that the tendency of the Calvinistic theory has been in this direction for a number of years. The"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "New Divi... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as it was called, was published in New-York. This was a most severe and witty allegory, against the dogmas and bigotry of old Calvinism. From this work this old theory has obtained the epithet of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whenever a man advocates the doctrine of... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "&c. These charges, say the Calvinists, are very unjust, ungenerous--in fact, they bear false witness against our neighbours. This is said by Mr. Metcalf, and by others of the New-Haven school. And yet what says the Spectator, the organ and oracle of that school? It says of Dr. T... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greek with Greek contend so far as to show, if possible, the inconsistency of both, and then present the doctrine which we believe to be the true system, and show how it stands untouched by the conflicting elements around it as the immovable foundation of the Church of God. I sh... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first view is that which we understood to be advocated by Dr. Fisk, in the sermon we reviewed. The writer goes on farther to say that his objection to this is,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course he means to sa... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but also that God"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To God, says Mr. Wesley, in his sermon on Divine providence,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the moral world evil men and evil spirits continually oppose the Divine will, and create numberless irregularities. Here therefore is full scope for the exercise of all the... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now how surprised Mr. M. will be when he learns that we have always preached this doctrine as thoroughly and forcibly as we could, and neither Methodists nor Calvinists ever suspected it was Calvinism until he and those who believe with him incorporated it into their creed, and ... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was certainly our intention to place this contested doctrine on grounds which our Wesleyan brethren _could not_ dispute, and it gives us pleasure to find that in this we have had complete success!"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "&c, he has said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If an evil, unavoidable and hateful, is allowed by the Creator to come into his kingdom, in one place and time rather than any other, and is thus _particularly disposed of_ by his providence, because it is a disposition... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--that these acts"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand by, for I am holier than thou!"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--no judgment, and"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Acts undivided, operates unspent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Divine decree is the determination to _produce_ the universe, that is, the _whole series_ of _beings_ and _events_ that was then future. Dr. Chalm... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thy people _shall_ be willing in the day of thy power."
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(see"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Views in Theology, ) and that the mind must necessarily be swayed by the strongest motive, or by what appears to the mind to be the greatest good. Dr. Edwards, following Leibnitz, incorporated this doctrine of philosophical necessi... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You misrepresent us!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You mistake our doctrine!"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We cannot tell. And they give this evasive reply perhaps for a reason similar to that which influenced the Jews; they fear that a definite answer will involve themselves or their theory in difficulty. This is a very convenient way to avoid responsibility, but not indicative of m... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there so much evidence in favour of predestination, that I should do more violence to my own reason, and the laws of belief, by rejecting it, than I should by believing that this doctrine is compatible with free agency and accountability? Indeed, Calvinists themselves have so... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(_Views in Theology_, p. 163.)--Now if this has any bearing on the question, it relates not to human mind and human volition merely, but to _mind in general_, and must apply to the Divine mind. The same may be said, in fact, of most of the arguments that are brought in favour of... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "governed by motives in his decisions, he could not determine where to place them, both having the same influence on his mind for a location in the same place! The same writer represents this motive influence, also, as frequently imperceptible, but not the less effectual, and not... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "unriddled. The human mind, by the constitution of its nature, has the power of choosing according to the influence of the strongest motive; and therefore, so far as this can be called a power, it has the natural power to convert itself; and this is the reason why"
},
{
"... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to God with scarcely a change of theory. Hereafter let no man say, that the work of regeneration is a mystery--that in this work we cannot tell whence the regenerating influence comes, or whither it goes; for it comes through the philosophical channel of motive influence by whic... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are conscious, say the theorists,"
}
] |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let it be granted, a Calvinist might say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "his _moral_ image doubtless. Man, then, in his own subordinate sphere, has the power of originating thought, the power of spontaneous moral action: this, _this only_, is the ground of his respon... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Original sin standeth not in the _following_ of Adam, (as the Pelagians vainly talk,) but it is the corruption of the nature of every man that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and of his own nature inclin... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The synod of Dort decided thus:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We believe that God--formed man after his own image, &c, _capable in all things to will_ agreeably to the will of God. They then speak of the fall, and say,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(See Dr. Taylor's Sermon.) But what this"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is, we are at a loss to determine; as also what the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is that is predicated of this nature; nor has Dr. T. told us how he knows that all men will sin an... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men. They speak in special terms of the unregenerate--that they _grieve_, _resist_, and _quench_ the _Spirit_ of _grace_, which certainly they could not do if they had it ... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I had not come, says the Saviour,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He tha... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But my object is to call the attention of the reader to some very direct and express passages, to show that it is grace, and grace alone, that enables the soul to do the will of God."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can do all things, saith the apostle,"
},
{
... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The common theory (of Calvinistic orthodoxy) leads us to entertain low thoughts of ourselves, especially in a moral view; and to feel that we are not of ourselves _sufficient for any thing spiritually good_, and that, for whatever holiness we now possess, or may hereafter attain... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That the sin of Adam introduced into his nature such a radical impotence and depravity that it is impossible for his descendants to make any voluntary efforts toward piety and virtue, or in any respect to correct and improve their moral and religious character, and that faith an... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "nor welcomed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If, however, they by any means go into a state of punishment, their sufferings will be unjust; or if they are admitted into heaven, it will not be a salvation by grace, nor will it be preceded by regeneration, nor will thei... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Calvinists, say that the sin of Adam introduced into his nature such a radical impotence and depravity that it is impossible for his descendants [who, it is believed, are propagated in the moral likeness of their fallen ancestor] to make any voluntary efforts [unassisted by grac... |
38232 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And would you believe, reader, that any reasonable man would resort to such an idea for the sake of helping out a theory? _And yet it is even so_. A paper lately published under the sanction of the New Divinity, purporting to be an inquiry into"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
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