Conference Papers Author:Charles Hodge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1. That we are always most near to God. This presence includes a presence of knowledge, of power, of approbation or disapprobation. 2. That we are thus depend... more »ent for natural, for intellectual, and for spiritual life. 3. That this concursus of the divine and human is according to fixed laws ; laws, which concern our natural, intellectual and spiritual life ; laws, however, under the control of a personal God, who can suspend, counteract or ignore them, at will. If we recognize these laws, and act according to them, we experience their no-""1 ' " more and more the recipients of the life of transgress them, the opposite result is unav 4. That as the whole being and blesseduc on keeping the true relation between Go be ever on our guard never to violate his la accordance with his will, feeling our depci dering him trust, gratitude and love. 5. Under all circumstances we are ever i source of knowledge, being, blessedness, holi 6. The wicked are always in contact with III. The Sovereignty [April 3d, 1859.; I. Sovereignty— What it is. It is the right of absolute dominion. Tl to ourself and others according to the diet thus among men. An absolute sovereign is will is law, which no one has a right to (3 does not imply that any ruler has a right eternal principles of justice and mercy. 1 is responsible for the wisdom and justice of So when we speak of the sovereignty of work all things after the counsel of his ow with his own ; that he has in reference to t absolute dominion arid right to deal with good in his sight; to allow them to sin 01 and when they have sinned, to allow them vation; and, if salvation be provided, to i not to another; to apply it to one person and Bourse he has an equal right to determine their dtoiiny on earth, whether it shall be ...« less