notes
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It is not uncommon, among persons of a certain class, to represent the leading principles of Calvin as unfavourable to practical religion, and to that kind of preaching which is adapted to affect the hearts and consciences of the hearers. A reference to the most able and intelligent theologians and preachers who have held those principles, and upon whom they may reasonably be concluded to have exerted their genuine and fullest influence, will amply evince the inaccuracy of this representation. Of the excellent divine quoted above, King Charles I. was wont to say, that “he carried his ears to hear other preachers, but his conscience to hear Mr. Saunderson.”
2
Prov. xxix. 18.
3
Dan. ii. 34. Isaiah xi. 4. Psalm ii. 9.
4
Rom. xii. 6.
5
Jer. ii. 13.
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Rom. viii. 32.
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1 Tim. iv. 10.
8
John xvii. 3.
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Rom. iv. 25. 1 Cor. xv. 3, 17.
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Isaiah i. 3.
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Mark xvi. 20.
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Acts xiv. 3.
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Heb. ii. 3, 4.
14
John vii. 18. viii. 50.
15
In Joan. tract. 13.
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Matt. xxiv. 24.
17
2 Thess. ii. 9.
18
2 Cor. xi. 14.
19
Hierom. in præf. Jerem.
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2 Thess. ii. 10, 11.
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1 Cor. iii. 21, 23.
22
Prov. xxii. 28.
23
Psalm xlv. 10.
24
Acat. in lib. 11. cap. 16. Trip. Hist. Amb. lib. 2. de Off. c. 28.
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