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act for himself/themselves/yourselves
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Book of Mormon (2) [1x act for themselves] [2x act for yourselves]
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Edwards (5) [9x act for themselves] [1x act for yourself]
2 Nephi 2:16 Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man
that he should act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save
it should be that he was enticed by
the one or the other.
2. Jonathan Edwards. The "Miscellanies,"
(Entry Nos.... [page 575 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]
OF HIS WORKS. Endeavor to show how, that although God
in those communications of his beauty and happiness may be said to act for the
creature, and so that it is grace and goodness in God, yet he may be said to act
for himself and to make himself his end, and that the creature in
what he does should act for God and make God his end. To show how, in both the
acts of God and the right acts of the creature, God's glory and the creature's
true and infinite good are one, supreme end.
3. Jonathan Edwards. The "Blank Bible" (WJE
Online Vol.... [page 441 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]
the house of Baasha; he left none of his kinsfolks,
וְגֹּאֲֹלָיו. There were four things the goeēl was to do for his kinsman unable
to act for himself . 1. He was to marry the widow of the deceased kinsman
to raise up seed to his brother, as Christ marries the elect church that was
left a widow by the first Adam, the first surety, and by the law or first
covenant, the first husband having no seed (Rom.
4. Jonathan Edwards. Sermons, Series II, 1729 (WJE...
[Paragraph | Section]
under no obligation to Create him so that it would
have been utterly Impossible for him to sin. when he Created him he Gave him
the the free will Gave him that freedom wherby he was at
liberty to act for himself
and according to his own determination with Comp any manner of Compulsion.
Being in this state satan Contrived his destruction and deluded into that
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2 Nephi 2:26 And the Messiah cometh in the fulness of time,
that he may redeem the children of men from the fall. And because that they are
redeemed from the fall they have become free forever, knowing good from evil;
to act for
themselves and not to be acted upon,
save it be by the punishment of the law at the great and last day, according to
the commandments which God hath given.
7. Jonathan Edwards. Sermons and Discourses, 1743-1758...
[page 422 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section]
G. as we both agree. the Infants are <They being.
received on their Parents account & not their own. as a Kind of Parts &
members of their Parents They are treated in the affair of Covenanting They
." Infants being not capable to act for themselves , God has wisely and mercifully appointed that, in
this affair of covenanting, they should be treated as a kind of parts and
members of their parents. They are accepted on their parents' account, and not
their own, for their parents' covenanting, for their parents' giving
8. Jonathan Edwards. Sermons and Discourses, 1743-1758...
[page 426 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section]
the covenant of grace for their comfort in this respect, by
indefinite promises of their salvation (Deuteronomy 30:6), giving great
encouragement for 'em to hope for these two things: first, that if their
children die before they can act for themselves , he will accept their act for
them in entirely giving them up to him in faith in Jesus Christ; second, great
encouragement, that if they live to be capable to act for them [selves], and they fulfill
their obligations in a Christian education, their endeavors shall be succeeded.
God has
2. Jonathan Edwards. Original Sin (WJE Online Vol. 3) [page
135 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | Section]
to infer from these expressions, that all men sin
immediately, as soon as ever they are capable of it: to this I would say, that
I think the arguments used are truly solid, and do really and justly conclude,
either that men are born guilty, and so are chargeable with sin before they
come to act for
themselves , or else commit sin
immediately, without the least time intervening after they are capable of
understanding their obligations to God, and reflecting on themselves; and that
the Scripture clearly determines, there is not such person in the world, free
from sin. But whether this be a
3. Jonathan Edwards. Original Sin (WJE Online Vol. 3) [page
408 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]
is communion in the guilt and punishment of the sins of
others, that are distinct parts of Adam's race; and expressly, in that case,
where there is no consent and concurrence, but a sincere disapprobation of the
wickedness of ancestors. It is declared, that children who are adult and come
to act for
themselves , who are righteous, and
don't approve of, but sincerely condemn the wickedness of their fathers, shall
not be punished for their disapproved and avoided iniquities. The occasion of
what is here said, as well as the design and plain sense, shews, that nothing
is here intended in the least
4. Jonathan Edwards. Ecclesiastical Writings (WJE... [page
176 | Paragraph | SubSect | Section]
require a large dissertation by itself to clear it up;
which, as it would extend this discourse beyond all bounds, so it appears not
necessary in order to a clear determination of the present question. The
revelation of God's Word is much plainer and more express concerning adult
persons, that act
for themselves in religious matters,
than concerning infants. The Scriptures were written for the sake of adult
persons, or those that are capable of knowing what is written: 'tis to such the
apostles speak in their epistles, and to such only does God speak throughout
his Word: and the Scriptures
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23 Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves—to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life.
(2 Nephi 10:23)
9. Jonathan Edwards. The Life of David Brainerd (WJE... [page 487 | Paragraph | Sub2Sect | SubSect | Section]
19:2;
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