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60301 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 62.5 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
(1.) Jehovah said to Israel if they would obey his voice they would be “a holy nation.” Exodus 19:6. It is impossible to become holy by obeying a law which is less than holy itself. A defect in the law would leave a defect in the character.
60302 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 62.8 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… holy character, will certainly justify the doer; and no other would. These are a few of the high testimonials we gather from the scriptures in favor of that …
60303 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 63.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
2. As the will or law of God is the outgrowth of his attributes, it is the revelation of his own character, and is called his righteousness .
60304 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 63.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… a character in harmony with the revelation of his attributes.
60305 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 63.6 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… his character to man, and which is called his righteousness. This must be its meaning, and contains a timely rebuke to those who teach that it has been abolished …
60306 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 67.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… gives character to it; it may or may not be obedience to law according as a proper spirit is present or absent; and the presence or absence of a proper spirit …
60307 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 70.6 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… “moral character;” do these therefore not exist? But query, Do the scriptures speak of the “moral part,” and the “positive part” of the law? Does Eld. Vogel find these …
60308 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 74.10 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… all character to speak of abolishing that which is wholly moral. But the Scriptures do speak of the abolition of the decalogue; therefore it is positive.
60309 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 75.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… political character; and in this character they are of course positive or statutory. But the New Dispensation is purely ecclesiastic, hence it cannot receive …
60310 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 75.7 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… secular character, or, in the style of Paul, affected only ‘the flesh;’ and the rights and sacrifices in atonement for these were of a like character, being adequate …
60311 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 76.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… and character will here apply. If the law is holy it is designed to form a holy character, and would therefore justify the doer; and this is also the reason why …
60312 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 77.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… a character must be imperfect that is conformed to that law. His assertion is equivalent to saying that a certain thing is straight because it is so like a …
60313 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 82.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… in character, and often nearly and sometimes wholly in position, so that they may be easily mistaken for each other, as I inadvertently did. But the practical …
60314 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 85.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… in character, by failure on the part of subjects to obey it. Neither the nature, the authority, nor the perpetuity of a law is affected by disobedience; the effect …
60315 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 85.7 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… real characters, he would deny himself. It is evident from this contrast of the two covenants that the first covenant is found in Exodus 19 .
60316 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 92.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the character and position of the one rejected by that of the one chosen in his stead, to what conclusion must we arrive from the Jews’ rejecting Christ and …
60317 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 93.5 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
‘They are just alike in character, and often nearly and sometimes wholly in position, so that they may be easily mistaken for each other, as I inadvertently did.’
60318 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 95.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… a character must be imperfect that is conformed to that law.’ True; but this is declaring a character imperfect by another law. And before God gave us the perfect …
60319 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 96.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… of character without taking ‘the temple,’ ‘the smoke,’ ‘the hail,’ ‘the lightning,’ ‘the thunder,’ ‘the earthquake,’ etc., etc., as equally literal. This will suffice to show …
60320 A Written Discussion ... Upon the Sabbath, p. 100.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… and character, only as they appear ridiculous in a fair presentation. My illustrations hold good, and his emphasis does not change the nature of his expression …