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and that in all lawfull things, commanded by them, subjection ought to be given by us in the Lord, not onely for wrath, but for conscience sake; and that we are to make supplications and prayers for Kings, and all that are in authoritie, that under them we may live a quiet and peaceable life, in all godlinesse and honesty.","proofs":["Romans 13:1–4"]}]},{"document":"flcf1646","id":"49.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1646/paragraphs/49.1","segments":[{"text":"obey God rather then men, who will when we have finished our course, and kept the faith, give us","proofs":["Romans 12:1, 8"]},{"text":"whom wee must give an account of all our actions, and no man being able to discharge us of the same.","proofs":["Romans 14:10, 12"]}]},{"document":"flcf1646","id":"50.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1646/paragraphs/50.1","segments":[{"text":"It is lawfull for a Christian to be a Magistrate or Civill Officer; and also it is lawfull to take an Oath, so it be in truth, and in judgement, and in righteousnesse, for confirmation of truth, and ending of all strife; 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which is before our eyes as a most elegant book, wherein all creatures, great and small, are as so many characters leading us to contemplate the invisible things of God, namely, his eternal power and Godhead, as the apostle Paul saith.","proofs":["Romans 1:20"]}]},{"document":"dort1619","id":"1.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/dort1619/paragraphs/1.1","segments":[{"text":"As all men have sinned in Adam, lie under the curse, and are obnoxious to eternal death, God would have done no injustice by leaving them all to perish, and delivering them over to condemnation on account of sin, according to the words of the apostle. Rom. iii. 19, “that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.”","proofs":["Romans 3:19"]},{"text":"And verse 23, “for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”","proofs":["Romans 3:23"]},{"text":"And Rom. vi. 23, “for the wages of sin is death.”","proofs":["Romans 6:23"]}]},{"document":"dort1619","id":"1.3","url":"/api/v1/documents/dort1619/paragraphs/1.3","segments":[{"text":"And that men may be brought to believe, God mercifully sends the messengers of these most joyful tidings, to whom he will, and at what time he pleaseth; by whose ministry men are called to repentance and faith in Christ crucified. Rom. x. 14, 15. “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent?”","proofs":["Romans 10:14–15"]}]},{"document":"dort1619","id":"1.7","url":"/api/v1/documents/dort1619/paragraphs/1.7","segments":[{"text":"And elsewhere, “Whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”","proofs":["Romans 8:30"]}]},{"document":"dort1619","id":"1.10","url":"/api/v1/documents/dort1619/paragraphs/1.10","segments":[{"text":"The good pleasure of God is the sole cause of this gracious election; which doth not consist herein, that God foreseeing all possible qualities of human actions, elected certain of these as a condition of salvation; but that he was pleased out of the common mass of sinners to adopt some certain persons as a peculiar people to himself, as it is written, “For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil,” &c. “It was said (namely to Rebecca) the elder shall serve the younger; as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”","proofs":["Romans 9:11–13"]}]},{"document":"dort1619","id":"1.18","url":"/api/v1/documents/dort1619/paragraphs/1.18","segments":[{"text":"To those who murmur at the free grace of election, and just severity of reprobation, we answer with the apostle: “Nay, but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?”","proofs":["Romans 9:20"]}]},{"document":"dort1619","id":"5.10","url":"/api/v1/documents/dort1619/paragraphs/5.10","segments":[{"text":"This assurance, however, is not produced by any peculiar revelation contrary to, or independent of the word of God; 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Wherein he freely offereth unto sinners Life and Salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them Faith in Him that they may be saved,","proofs":["Romans 10:6","Romans 10:9"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"7.5","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/7.5","segments":[{"text":"Under the Law, it was administred by Promises, Prophecies, Sacrifices, Circumcision, the Paschal Lamb, and other Types and Ordinances delivered to the people of the Jews, all fore-signifying Christ to come:","proofs":["Romans 4:11"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"7.6","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/7.6","segments":[{"text":"There are not therefore Two Covenants of Grace, differing in substance, but one and the same, under various dispensations.","proofs":["Romans 3:21–23","Romans 3:30","Romans 4:3","Romans 4:6","Romans 4:16–17","Romans 4:23–24"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"8.2","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/8.2","segments":[{"text":"So that, two whole, perfect, and distinct Natures, the Godhead and the Manhood, were inseparably joyned together in one Person, without Conversion, Composition, or Confusion.","proofs":["Romans 9:5"]},{"text":"Which person, is very God, and very Man, yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and Man.","proofs":["Romans 1:3–4"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"8.4","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/8.4","segments":[{"text":"was buried, and remained under the power of death; 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for our Wills are stubborn and rebellious against Gods Commands, as well as our Minds ignorant of them,","proofs":["Romans 8:7"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"I, even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember thy sins.","proofs":["Romans 9:15"]},{"text":"I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.","proofs":["Romans 9:18"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"Yes, it does so; for the Lord Christ by his Life and Death did satisfie Divine Justice, and did merit our forgiveness; but if he did so, we did not so; our sins cost him dear, but their pardon cost us nothing; our pardon is perfectly free to us; though due to Christ, for God gave Christ freely for us; God accepts of his merits, and applyes them to us freely,","proofs":["Romans 3:24"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"Just upon our closure with Christ by Faith, in that very moment,","proofs":["Romans 5:1"]},{"text":"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Iesus Christ,","proofs":["Romans 8:1"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"Because if the least guilt should remain upon us, ‘twould exclude from Gods favour, and lodge us in everlasting burnings,","proofs":["Romans 6"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"That whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.","proofs":["Romans 8:30"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"But ye are sanctified.","proofs":["Romans 7:24"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"No; but also Adams sin, which is ours by imputation,","proofs":["Romans 5:19"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"99","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/99","segments":[{"text":"Hate the evil, and love the good.","proofs":["Romans 12:9"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"100","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/100","segments":[{"text":"The grace of the Lord Iesus, and the love of God, &c.","proofs":["Romans 16:20"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"Because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.","proofs":["Romans 5:5"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"Likewise the spirit helpeth our infirmities.","proofs":["Romans 8:26"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"2. The Stile and way of the Scriptures is with such Majesty as is not in other Writings; Duties are therein prescribed, which none but God can require; Sins are therein condemned, which none but God can prohibit; Threatnings of punishments are therein denounced, which none but God can inflict; Promises of such Rewards are therein made, which none but God can bestow; and all in such a Majestic way, as doth evidence God to be the Author of this Book of the Scriptures. 2. Because of the holiness and purity of the Scriptures, Which God had promised before by his Prophets in the holy Scriptures.","proofs":["Romans 1:2"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"3. God is unchangeable in regard of his Love and special Favours, The gifts and calling of God are without Repentance.","proofs":["Romans 11:29"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"1. The Power of God doth shew it self in what he hath done; he hath created all things, The invisible things of him from the Creation of the world, are clearly seen by the things which he hath made, even his eternal Power and Godhead.","proofs":["Romans 1:20"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"The spirit is holy, Joy in the Holy Ghost.","proofs":["Romans 14:17"]},{"text":"4. The Word of God is holy, Which he hath promised in the holy Scriptures.","proofs":["Romans 1:2"]},{"text":"His Law is holy, The Law is holy, and the Commandment holy, just and good.","proofs":["Romans 7:12"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"3. In his patience and forbearance towards the wicked, and his enemies, Or dispisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering.","proofs":["Romans 2:4"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"Of whom as concerning the Flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.","proofs":["Romans 9:5"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"Sanctification, That the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.","proofs":["Romans 15:16"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"7","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/7","segments":[{"text":"Gods decree of reprobation is his eternal purpose (according to his Soveraignity, and the unsearchable counsel of his own will) of passing by all the rest of the children of men which are not elected, and leaving them to perish in their sins, unto the praise of the power of his wrath and infinite justice in their everlasting punishment, Hath not the Potter power over the Cley, of the same lump, to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor? What if God willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction","proofs":["Romans 9:21–22"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"7","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/7","segments":[{"text":"It was neither the good works foreseen in the one, which moved him to chuse them, nor the evil works foreseen in the other, which moved him to pass them by; but only because he would, he chose some, and because he would not, he did not chuse the rest, but decreed to withold that grace which he was no ways bound to give unto them, and to punish them justly for their sins, as he might have punished all if he had so pleased, The children being not yet born, neither having done good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth. It was said, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated: for he hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardneth.","proofs":["Romans 9:11, 13, 18"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"12","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/12","segments":[{"text":"The wages of Sin is Death.","proofs":["Romans 6:23"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"The Law of God in some part of it, and more darkly is to be found written upon the hearts of all Men,","proofs":["Romans 2:15"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"The Sins included in the want of Conformity to the Law of God, are, 1. 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Want of Inclination and Power to Good, and want of all Spiritual Affections in the Will and Heart, In me (that is in my Flesh) dwelleth no good thing, and how to perform that which is good, I find not.","proofs":["Romans 7:18"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"2. In the Crookedness and Enmity of the heart and will against God and his Law, The Carnal mind (that is the Carnal heart) is Enmity against God, and is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be.","proofs":["Romans 8:7"]},{"text":"3. In the Disorder and Distemper of the Affections, all of them being naturally set upon wrong Objects through this inherent Corruption. 4. The Members also of the Body are Infected, being ready Weapons and Instruments of Unrighteousness,","proofs":["Romans 6:13"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"2. To judiciary Blindness of mind, and a Reprobate sence, God hath given them the Spirit of Slumber, Eyes that they should not see, and Ears that they should not hear.","proofs":["Romans 11:8"]},{"text":"Because they liked not to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a Reprobate sence.","proofs":["Romans 1:28"]},{"text":"3. To Judiciary Hardness of Heart, Searedness and Benumness of Conscience, Whom he will, he hardneth.","proofs":["Romans 9:18"]},{"text":"4. To Vile Affections, For this cause God gave them up to Vile affections; and they burned in their Lusts one towards another, men with men, working that which is unseemly.","proofs":["Romans 1:26–27"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Man by the Fall at the end of his Life, is lyable unto Death it self, Death passed upon all for that all have Sinned.","proofs":["Romans 5:12"]},{"text":"The Wages of Sin is Death.","proofs":["Romans 6:23"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"Christ doth make Intercession for us at the right hand of God in Heaven, It is Christ that died, yea rather is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh Intercession for us.","proofs":["Romans 8:34"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"26","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/26","segments":[{"text":"Christ doth conquer his and his peoples Enemies when he taketh away their power in part, that they have not Dominion over his people, but then he doth compleatly conquer them when he doth bring all Enemies under his feet and utterly abolish and destroy them, In all these things we are more than conquerers through him that loved us.","proofs":["Romans 8:37"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"2. That as Christ died for sin; so we should die to sin, and not be unwilling to suffer, and to die for his sake if called thereunto, If we be dead with Christ, we shall also live with him.","proofs":["Romans 6:8"]},{"text":"Reckon your selves to be dead indeed unto sin.","proofs":["Romans 6:11"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Declared to be the Son of God, with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the Resurrection from the dead.","proofs":["Romans 1:4"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"No, for then his body did put on Immortality, Christ being raised from the dead, dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over him.","proofs":["Romans 6:9"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"The Resurrection of Christ doth teach us to walk in newness of life, Like as Christ was raised from the dead by the Glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.","proofs":["Romans 6:4"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Christ at the right hand of God in Heaven, 1. Doth make continual Intercession for his people, Who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh Intercession for us","proofs":["Romans 8:34"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Whom he called, them he also justified.","proofs":["Romans 8:30"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"The Spirit convinceth us of our sin and misery by the Law, and threatnings thereof, By the Law is the knowledg of sin.","proofs":["Romans 3:20"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"God is the Author of our Justification, whose act it is, Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? 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Because the whole World is guilty of sin, and those that are guilty of sin cannot have a perfect Righteousness of Works, and those that have not a perfect Righteousness cannot be justified in the sight of God. Thus the Apostle convinceth both Jew and Gentile of sin, in the first and second Chapters to the Romans, and this that as Every Mouth may be stopped, and the whole World may become guilty before God,","proofs":["Romans 3:19"]},{"text":"and therefore inferreth, By the deeds of the Law no flesh living shall be justified.","proofs":["Romans 3:20"]},{"text":"2. Because, if we were justified by works the reward would be of Debt, and not of Grace, Now to him that worketh is the reward reckoned, not of Grace but of Debt.","proofs":["Romans 4:4"]},{"text":"But the reward is not of Debt but of Grace, and they that are justified, are not justified as righteous with a righteousness of works, but as ungodly, He justifieth the ungodly.","proofs":["Romans 4:5"]},{"text":"3. 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The righteousness of Christ is perfect and sufficient for our Justification; and by Faith this righteousnes is received and made ours in the account of God; therefore we are justified by Faith. 4. Justification by Faith doth give God all the glory, and excludeth all boasting in Man; therefore it is by Faith, Where is boasting then? Is it excluded? By what Law? By the Law of works? Nay, but by the Law of Faith.","proofs":["Romans 3:27"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"5. A sure title to the Inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven, And if Children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joynt-heirs with Christ?","proofs":["Romans 8:17"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"There are two parts of Sanctification. 1. 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Being justified by Faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by Faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoyce in hope of the glory of God; and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.","proofs":["Romans 5:1–2, 5"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? it is God that justifieth: who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that died.","proofs":["Romans 8:33–34"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish [shall be] upon every soul of man that doth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile.","proofs":["Romans 2:8–9"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"40","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/40","segments":[{"text":"Though without light of the Scriptures there cannot be so clear a discovery of the Moral Law, yet by the light of Nature it is made known unto all Nations in some measure, sufficient to leave the very Heathen without excuse for their disobedience, For when the Gentiles which have not the Law, do by nature the things contained in the Law, these having not the Law are a Law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts.","proofs":["Romans 2:14–15"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"40","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/40","segments":[{"text":"Now we know that what things soever the Law saith, it saith unto them who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the World may become guilty before God.","proofs":["Romans 3:19"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"40","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/40","segments":[{"text":"The Law bringeth unto Christ, 1. 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When Persons hate God, or love themselves, or any thing else more than God, desire Creatures more than God, trust in arms of flesh more than God, delight in objects of sense more than God, when Persons set any affection upon any thing in the World more than God, and take off the heart, in whole, or in part, from God, The carnal mind is enmity against God.","proofs":["Romans 8:7"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"47","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/47","segments":[{"text":"The Idolatry which is forbidden in the first Commandment, is the giving that Worship and Glory unto any other, which is due unto God alone, Who changed the truth of God into a lye, and Worshipped and Served the Creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.","proofs":["Romans 1:25"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"55","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/55","segments":[{"text":"Gods Works are profaned and abused; 1. When Persons pamper their flesh, gratifie their Lusts, and are intemperate in their use of Gods Creatures, Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in Rioting and Drunkenness; not in Chambering & Wantonness; not in Strife and Envy; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the Lusts thereof.","proofs":["Romans 13:13–14"]},{"text":"Or dispisest thou the Riches of his goodness, and forbearance; but after thy hardness, and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thy self wrath; &c.","proofs":["Romans 2:4–5"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"56","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/56","segments":[{"text":"2. Be sure if such escape here, they shall not escape Eternal Wrath and Vengeance hereafter, Thou treasurest up to thy self wrath against the day of wrath, and the revelation of the righteous Judgment of God.","proofs":["Romans 2:5"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"60","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/60","segments":[{"text":"4. With Love and Fervor of Spirit, Fervent in Spirit, serving the Lord.","proofs":["Romans 12:11"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"5. Prayer for them, Now I beseech you Brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that yee strive together with me in your Prayers to God for me,","proofs":["Romans 15:30"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"3. 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Giving them evil examples of Unholiness, Covetousness, Unrighteousness, Intemperance, or any Wickedness. 2. Contemptuous carriage towards them, or not giving due encouragement unto good beginnings. 3. Not bearing with their weakness, and despising of them, because of their infirmities, We then that are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please our selves,","proofs":["Romans 15:1"]},{"text":"Let not him that eateth, despise him that eateth not.","proofs":["Romans 14:3"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"68","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/68","segments":[{"text":"The Apostle doth answer this case, We be slanderously reported, that we say, Let us do evil that good may come, whose damnation is just.","proofs":["Romans 3:8"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"68","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/68","segments":[{"text":"Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.","proofs":["Romans 12:21"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"71","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/71","segments":[{"text":"8. By the help of the Spirit; For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body, ye shall live.","proofs":["Romans 8:13"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"74","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/74","segments":[{"text":"Provide things honest in the sight of all men.","proofs":["Romans 12:17"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"74","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/74","segments":[{"text":"Distributing to the necessities of the Saints.","proofs":["Romans 12:13"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"74","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/74","segments":[{"text":"I commend unto you Phebe our Sister, that ye receive her in the Lord as becometh Saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you.","proofs":["Romans 16:1–2"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"74","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/74","segments":[{"text":"4. In paying every one his due, Render therefore to all their dues, Tribute to whom Tribute is due, Custome to whom Custome: Owe no man any thing, but to love one another.","proofs":["Romans 13:7–8"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"75","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/75","segments":[{"text":"The publick theft which the eighth Commandment doth forbid, is, 1. Sacriledge, which is, when any do either violently or fraudulently take away, or alienate any thing that hath been dedicated to Sacred uses, or when Sacred persons without just cause are taken off from their Employments. Thou that abhorrest Idols, dost thou commit Sacriledge?","proofs":["Romans 2:22"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"77","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/77","segments":[{"text":"2. By liking and loving, and desiring, and giving thanks to God for their good name and fame. 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As it is a means to establish the Saints in the truths and ways of God, and to strengthen them against errour and seduction. Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my Gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, &c.","proofs":["Romans 16:25"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"89","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/89","segments":[{"text":"For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto Salvation, to every one that believeth.","proofs":["Romans 1:16"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"92","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/92","segments":[{"text":"2. 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Let not sin therefore reign that you should obey it in the lusts thereof; neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield your selves unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.","proofs":["Romans 6:4, 11–13"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"We cannot of our selves pray thus acceptably unto God, without the Spirit of God to help our infirmities, and to teach us both for what and how to pray, Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit maketh intercession for us, with groanings that cannot be uttered: And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the spirit; because he maketh intercession for the Saints according to the will of God.","proofs":["Romans 8:26–27"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"100","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/100","segments":[{"text":"The words, Our Father, in the Preface teach us; 1. 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For Faith comes by Hearing, and Hearing by the Word of God,","proofs":["Romans 10:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Whatsoever Things were written aforetime, were written for our Learning,","proofs":["Romans 15:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Word is nigh thee,","proofs":["Romans 10:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For through Patience and Comfort of the Scriptures we have Hope,","proofs":["Romans 15:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"No. For how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard!","proofs":["Romans 10:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Verily their Sound went into all the Earth, and their Words to the Ends of the World,","proofs":["Romans 10:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we understand by the Things that are made his Eternal Power and Godhead,","proofs":["Romans 1:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"No. O the Depth of the Riches of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God,","proofs":["Romans 11:33"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"5","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/5","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he is God over all, blessed for evermore,","proofs":["Romans 9:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"13","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/13","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For by one Man Sin entred into the World,","proofs":["Romans 5:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For where there is no Law, there is no Transgression,","proofs":["Romans 4:15","Romans 5:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For by the Law is the Knowledge of Sin,","proofs":["Romans 3:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"No. For I had not known Sin but by the Law,","proofs":["Romans 7:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For they that have not the written Law, shew the Work of the Law written in their Hearts,","proofs":["Romans 2:14–15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I had not known Lust, except the Law had said, Thou shalt not covet,","proofs":["Romans 7:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For St. Paul speaks of the Sin that dwells in us,","proofs":["Romans 7:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Sin by the Commandment becomes exceeding sinful,","proofs":["Romans 7:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For ’twas by one Man’s Disobedience that many were made Sinners,","proofs":["Romans 5:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Sin took occasion by the Commandment,","proofs":["Romans 7:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For by the Offence of one, Judgment came upon all Men to Condemnation,","proofs":["Romans 5:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he was the Figure of him that was to come,","proofs":["Romans 5:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For through the Offence of one many are dead,","proofs":["Romans 5:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For when we were without Strength, Christ died for us,","proofs":["Romans 5:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For in us, that is, in our Flesh, there dwells no good thing,","proofs":["Romans 7:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"17","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/17","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For both Jews and Gentiles are all under Sin,","proofs":["Romans 3:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"17","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/17","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For they that are in the Flesh cannot please God,","proofs":["Romans 8:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"17","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/17","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For by it many were made Sinners,","proofs":["Romans 5:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"17","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/17","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Death entred by Sin, and so Death passed upon all Men,","proofs":["Romans 5:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For all the World is guilty before God,","proofs":["Romans 3:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"No. God forbid, for then how shall God judge the World?","proofs":["Romans 3:5–6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. There is none Righteous, no, not one,","proofs":["Romans 3:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the carnal Mind is Enmity against God,","proofs":["Romans 8:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Carnal Mind is not in Subjection to the Law of God, neither indeed can be,","proofs":["Romans 8:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For there is a Law in the Members warring against the Law of the Mind,","proofs":["Romans 7:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For when I would do Good, Evil is present with me,","proofs":["Romans 7:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For all have sinned, and come short of the Glory of God,","proofs":["Romans 3:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. ’Tis a carnal Mind,","proofs":["Romans 8:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For it is Enmity against God,","proofs":["Romans 8:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Death reigns over them that have not sinn’d after the Similitude of Adam’s Transgression,","proofs":["Romans 5:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all Ungodliness, and Unrighteousness, of Men,","proofs":["Romans 1:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For so Death passed upon all Men, for that all have sinned,","proofs":["Romans 5:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Wages of Sin is Death,","proofs":["Romans 6:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For when God renders to every Man according to his Works, he will render Indignation and Wrath, Tribulation and Anguish, upon every Soul of Man that doth Evil,","proofs":["Romans 2:8–9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"No. For when we were without Strength, Christ died for the Ungodly,","proofs":["Romans 5:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. There is a Remnant according to the Election of Grace,","proofs":["Romans 11:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That he might make known the Riches of his Glory on the Vessels of Mercy,","proofs":["Romans 9:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Purpose of God according to Election shall stand,","proofs":["Romans 9:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. When the Election hath obtained, the rest are blinded,","proofs":["Romans 11:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we are not under the Law, but under Grace,","proofs":["Romans 6:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"No. For if by Grace, then it is no more of Works,","proofs":["Romans 11:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Christ is over all God blessed for ever,","proofs":["Romans 9:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"22","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/22","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he was in the likeness of sinful Flesh,","proofs":["Romans 8:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"22","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/22","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Of them as concerning the Flesh Christ came,","proofs":["Romans 9:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"Yes. What the Law could not do in that it was weak, that Christ did,","proofs":["Romans 8:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Who is he that Condemns? It is Christ that Dy’d,","proofs":["Romans 8:34"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He was delivered for our Offences,","proofs":["Romans 4:25"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He both rose, and revived,","proofs":["Romans 14:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Death hath no more Dominion over him,","proofs":["Romans 6:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He was declared to be the Son of God with Power by the Resurrection from the Dead,","proofs":["Romans 1:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he was raised again for our Justification,","proofs":["Romans 4:25"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. It is Christ that dy’d, yea, rather that is risen again,","proofs":["Romans 8:34"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He is even at the Right Hand of God,","proofs":["Romans 8:34"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We are buried with him by Baptism,","proofs":["Romans 6:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"No. For if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his,","proofs":["Romans 8:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For whom he called, them he justified,","proofs":["Romans 8:30"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I was alive without the Law once, but when the Commandment came, Sin reviv’d,","proofs":["Romans 7:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For by the Law is the Knowledge of Sin,","proofs":["Romans 3:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes. When Sin reviv’d, I died,","proofs":["Romans 7:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Because the Love of God is shed abroad in our Hearts by the Holy Ghost,","proofs":["Romans 5:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"Yes. It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth Mercy,","proofs":["Romans 9:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"32","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/32","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Promise is sure to all the Seed,","proofs":["Romans 4:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"32","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/32","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Whom he called, them he also justified,","proofs":["Romans 8:30"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"32","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/32","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For if Children, then Heirs,","proofs":["Romans 8:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"32","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/32","segments":[{"text":"Yes. All Things work together for good to them that are the called,","proofs":["Romans 8:28"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we are all guilty before God,","proofs":["Romans 3:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. It is God that justifieth,","proofs":["Romans 8:33"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We are justified freely by his Grace,","proofs":["Romans 3:24"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For there is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus,","proofs":["Romans 8:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He justifies the ungodly,","proofs":["Romans 4:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"No. By the Deeds of the Law shall no Flesh be justified,","proofs":["Romans 3:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. By the Obedience of one shall many be made Righteous,","proofs":["Romans 5:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Being justified by his Blood, we shall be saved from Wrath,","proofs":["Romans 5:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"No. For in due time Christ died for the ungodly,","proofs":["Romans 5:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"No. For he was delivered for our Offences, and raised again for our Justification,","proofs":["Romans 4:25"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For who then is he that shall condemn?","proofs":["Romans 8:34"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he is Just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus,","proofs":["Romans 3:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We have now received the Atonement,","proofs":["Romans 5:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For being justified by Faith we have Peace with God,","proofs":["Romans 5:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we are reconciled to God by the Death of his Son,","proofs":["Romans 5:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For to him that believeth his Faith is counted for Righteousness,","proofs":["Romans 4:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"No. God forbid, yea, we establish the Law,","proofs":["Romans 3:31"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"No. It is excluded by the Law of Faith,","proofs":["Romans 3:27"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"Yes. There shall be called the Children of the living God,","proofs":["Romans 9:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Ye have received the Spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father,","proofs":["Romans 8:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"34","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/34","segments":[{"text":"Yes. They are brought into the glorious Liberty of the Children of God,","proofs":["Romans 8:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he is not a Jew that is one outwardly,","proofs":["Romans 2:28"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Present your Bodies a living Sacrifice,","proofs":["Romans 12:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Reckon ye your selves dead unto Sin,","proofs":["Romans 6:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For it is through the Spirit that we mortifie the Deeds of the Body,","proofs":["Romans 8:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. They walk not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit,","proofs":["Romans 8:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"35","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/35","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Sin shall not have dominion over you,","proofs":["Romans 6:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For being justified by Faith we have Peace with God,","proofs":["Romans 5:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Spirit it self bears witness with our Spirits that we are the Children of God,","proofs":["Romans 8:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Love of God is shed abroad in our Hearts through the Holy Ghost,","proofs":["Romans 5:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we glory in Tribulations also,","proofs":["Romans 5:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"No. For whom he justified, them he glorified,","proofs":["Romans 8:30"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"No. The Gifts and Callings of God are without Repentance,","proofs":["Romans 11:29"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"36","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/36","segments":[{"text":"No. Be not high-minded, but fear,","proofs":["Romans 11:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"No. Neither Death nor Life can do that,","proofs":["Romans 8:38"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"37","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/37","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He that is dead is freed from Sin,","proofs":["Romans 6:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compar’d with the Glory which shall be revealed,","proofs":["Romans 8:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"39","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/39","segments":[{"text":"Yes. It is your reasonable Service,","proofs":["Romans 12:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"39","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/39","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I delight in the Law of God after the inward Man,","proofs":["Romans 7:22"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"40","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/40","segments":[{"text":"Yes. They shew the Work of the Law written in their Heart,","proofs":["Romans 2:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"40","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/40","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Gentiles which have not the Law, do by Nature the Things contained in the Law,","proofs":["Romans 2:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"40","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/40","segments":[{"text":"Yes. They that have sinn’d without Law, shall perish without Law,","proofs":["Romans 2:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"40","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/40","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Law is Holy, and the Commandment is Holy, and Just, and Good,","proofs":["Romans 7:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"40","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/40","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Law is spiritual,","proofs":["Romans 7:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"40","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/40","segments":[{"text":"Yes. By the Law is the Knowledge of Sin,","proofs":["Romans 3:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"40","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/40","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Christ is the end of the Law for Righteousness,","proofs":["Romans 10:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For it is Love; Love is the fulfilling of the Law,","proofs":["Romans 13:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. All Things shall work together for good to them that love God,","proofs":["Romans 8:28"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. All is comprehended in this saying, Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self,","proofs":["Romans 13:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Rejoice with them that do Rejoice, and Weep with them that weep,","proofs":["Romans 12:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For even Christ pleased not himself,","proofs":["Romans 15:2–3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Let love be without Dissimulation,","proofs":["Romans 12:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"43","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/43","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Of the Gentiles also,","proofs":["Romans 3:29"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"46","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/46","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For • that are led by the Spirit of God, are the Sons of God,","proofs":["Romans 8:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"46","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/46","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We must serve him with our Spirits,","proofs":["Romans 1:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"47","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/47","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Wrath of God is reveal’d against all Ungodliness,","proofs":["Romans 1:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"47","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/47","segments":[{"text":"Yes. They changed the Truth of God into a Lie,","proofs":["Romans 1:25"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"49","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/49","segments":[{"text":"Yes. As they made the Likeness of creeping Things,","proofs":["Romans 1:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"50","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/50","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin,","proofs":["Romans 14:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"51","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/51","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For it changes the Truth of God into a Lie,","proofs":["Romans 1:25"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"51","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/51","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For they change the Glory of the Incorruptible God into an Image made like to Corruptible Man,","proofs":["Romans 1:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"51","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/51","segments":[{"text":"Yes. They are vain in their Imaginations, and their foolish Heart is darkned,","proofs":["Romans 1:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"52","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/52","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Idolaters are Haters of God,","proofs":["Romans 1:25, 30"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"54","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/54","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We must be fervent in Spirit, serving the Lord,","proofs":["Romans 12:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"55","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/55","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Name of God is blasphemed through them,","proofs":["Romans 2:24"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"58","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/58","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he that regardeth the Day, regardeth it to the Lord,","proofs":["Romans 14:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Powers that be are ordained of God,","proofs":["Romans 13:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Tribute to whom Tribute is due, Custom to whom Custom,","proofs":["Romans 13:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Ye must needs be subject, not only for Wrath, but also for Conscience sake,","proofs":["Romans 13:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Be kindly affectioned one to another with Brotherly Love,","proofs":["Romans 12:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. In Honour preferring one another,","proofs":["Romans 12:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"68","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/68","segments":[{"text":"No. We must not do Evil that Good may come,","proofs":["Romans 3:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"69","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/69","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he bears not the Sword in vain,","proofs":["Romans 13:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"69","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/69","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Dearly beloved, avenge not your selves,","proofs":["Romans 12:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"71","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/71","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Present your Bodies unto God a living Sacrifice,","proofs":["Romans 12:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"71","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/71","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Yield your Members as Instruments of Righteousness unto God,","proofs":["Romans 6:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"72","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/72","segments":[{"text":"Chambering and Wantonness,","proofs":["Romans 13:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"74","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/74","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Render therefore to all their Due,","proofs":["Romans 13:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"74","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/74","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Owe no Man any thing, but to love one another,","proofs":["Romans 13:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"77","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/77","segments":[{"text":"No. For our Praise is not of Men, but of God,","proofs":["Romans 2:29"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"78","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/78","segments":[{"text":"No. We must not do Evil that Good may come,","proofs":["Romans 3:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"79","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/79","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Law is Spiritual,","proofs":["Romans 7:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"79","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/79","segments":[{"text":"No. I had not known Lust except the Law had said, Thou shalt not Covet,","proofs":["Romans 7:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"80","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/80","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Rejoice with them that do Rejoice,","proofs":["Romans 12:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"81","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/81","segments":[{"text":"Yes. And make no Provision for the Flesh to fulfil the Lusts thereof,","proofs":["Romans 13:14"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"No. For when I would do good evil is present with me,","proofs":["Romans 7:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"83","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/83","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Name of God is Blasphemed through them,","proofs":["Romans 2:24"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"83","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/83","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Thou that preachest a Man should not Steal, dost thou Steal?","proofs":["Romans 2:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"84","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/84","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For when God renders to every Man according to his Work, he renders Indignation and Wrath, Tribulation and Anguish, to every Soul of Man that doth Evil,","proofs":["Romans 2:6, 8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"84","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/84","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Wrath is treasur’d up against the Day of Wrath,","proofs":["Romans 2:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"84","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/84","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Wages of Sin is Death,","proofs":["Romans 6:23"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"86","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/86","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Word is nigh thee,","proofs":["Romans 10:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"86","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/86","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The just shall live by his Faith,","proofs":["Romans 1:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"86","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/86","segments":[{"text":"Yes. We have now received the Atonement,","proofs":["Romans 5:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"86","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/86","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Gospel is made known to all Nations for the Obedience of Faith,","proofs":["Romans 16:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"87","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/87","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Goodness of God leadeth thee to Repentance,","proofs":["Romans 2:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"89","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/89","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Faith comes by hearing,","proofs":["Romans 10:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"89","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/89","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That we through Patience and Comfort of the Scriptures might have Hope,","proofs":["Romans 15:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"89","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/89","segments":[{"text":"Yes. It is the Power of God unto Salvation to every one that believes,","proofs":["Romans 1:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"91","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/91","segments":[{"text":"No. For if thou be a Breaker of the Law thy Circumcision is made Uncircumcision,","proofs":["Romans 2:25"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"91","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/91","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Circumcision is that of the Heart, in the Spirit, and not in the Letter,","proofs":["Romans 2:29"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"92","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/92","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Circumcision was a Seal of the Righteousness which is by Faith,","proofs":["Romans 4:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"92","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/92","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That henceforth we should not serve Sin,","proofs":["Romans 6:4, 6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"93","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/93","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He received the Sign of Circumcision,","proofs":["Romans 4:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"94","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/94","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For being baptiz’d into Jesus Christ, we are baptiz’d into his Death,","proofs":["Romans 6:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"94","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/94","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we must not be conformed to this World,","proofs":["Romans 12:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"94","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/94","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we are not in the Flesh, but in the Spirit,","proofs":["Romans 8:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"94","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/94","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That we also should walk in Newness of Life,","proofs":["Romans 6:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"Yes. If the Root be Holy, so are the Branches,","proofs":["Romans 11:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"Yes. How shall we that are dead to Sin live any longer therein?","proofs":["Romans 6:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we also should walk in newness of Life,","proofs":["Romans 6:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"96","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/96","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we reckon our selves to be dead indeed unto Sin,","proofs":["Romans 6:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"96","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/96","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For being made free from Sin we become the Servants of Righteousness,","proofs":["Romans 6:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Spirit helpeth our Infirmities,","proofs":["Romans 8:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"99","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/99","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought,","proofs":["Romans 8:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"102","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/102","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the God of Peace shall tread Satan under your Feet shortly,","proofs":["Romans 16:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"102","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/102","segments":[{"text":"Yes. My Hearts Desire and Prayer to God for Israel is, that they may be sav’d,","proofs":["Romans 10:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"103","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/103","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That we may prove what is the good, and acceptable, and perfect, Will of God,","proofs":["Romans 12:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"105","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/105","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Through the Redemption that is in Jesus,","proofs":["Romans 3:24"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"Who hath first given unto him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again,","proofs":["Romans 11:35"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed,","proofs":["Romans 10:14"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"They knew God, though they glorified him not as God,","proofs":["Romans 1:21"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"They are without excuse,","proofs":["Romans 1:20"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it to them,","proofs":["Romans 1:19"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"For the invisible things of him from the creation are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,","proofs":["Romans 1:20"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"I say the truth in Christ, I He not,","proofs":["Romans 9:1"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"Their sound went out into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world,","proofs":["Romans 10:18"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"For it is said of those that were guided by it, the way of peace they have not known,","proofs":["Romans 3:17"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"5","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/5","segments":[{"text":"Some are without understanding,","proofs":["Romans 1:31"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"Therefore brethren we are debtors,","proofs":["Romans 8:12"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"The commandment of God is made known unto all nations for the obedience of faith,","proofs":["Romans 16:26"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"7","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/7","segments":[{"text":"Whom I serve with my spirit,","proofs":["Romans 1:9"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"7","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/7","segments":[{"text":"The gifts and calling of God are without repentance,","proofs":["Romans 11:29"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"7","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/7","segments":[{"text":"O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God,","proofs":["Romans 11:33"]}]},{"document":"beddome1752","id":"7","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/7","segments":[{"text":"Is there unrighteousness with God? 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