The Biblical Repository and Classical Review (Volume 2) - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846. Excerpt: ... True, these are not wholly destroyed in the first triumph over them. They often show themselves with mischievous influence afterward; but are progressively undermined and supplanted by new and right inclinations, dispositions and habits, formed in the succeeding history of the converted man. To call the predominating motive in changed volition, desire, inclination, propensity, is but to confound terms. Besides it is manifest that the predominant motive in this case is not alike in kind with the propensity, and does not spring from it; but from truth, and objective sources of motive in correspondence with principles of our being other than and aside from depraved propensity. The principle of the above extracts is carried into Dr. Woods's theory of the power of the sinner to repent; pp. 166, 167. "Whenever the question concerning power or ability comes up, put it thus: Has man a power which ever has accomplished the thing? a power which has, in any instance, availed? Has he a power which ever will avail, in the most favourable circumstances?" "Let us look at the question respecting the power of the unrenewed to repent and believe, without the regenerating influence of the Spirit. We inquire, then, whether any sinner has actually repented and believed without that influence? Whatever motives may have acted on him, and whatever efforts he may have made in his natural state, has he ever done this? And has he power in himself which will prove to be sufficient in future time?" etc. We object not to the popular use of the word power, in sermons, and treatises for general reading; but of course do not expect that use of it in an essay, aiming at metaphysical accuracy, in respect to the constituent elements and powers of the mind. We have some doubts, also, as to t...

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