General View of the Doctrines of Christianity: Designed More Especially for the Edification and Instruction of FamiliesHastings, Etheridge & Bliss, no. 8, State-Street; and at their store in Charlestown, 1809 - Christianity - 200 pages |
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... capacity to discern good from evil , and responsi- ble for the use of it . The right use of this capacity constitutes religious obedience , and the wrong use , disobedience or impiety . 3. If we are constituted beings accountable for ...
... capacity to discern good from evil , and responsi- ble for the use of it . The right use of this capacity constitutes religious obedience , and the wrong use , disobedience or impiety . 3. If we are constituted beings accountable for ...
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... capacity , human actions would be no more susceptible of the relations of morality , than the movements of a machine . Moral agency consists in the voluntary preference of good to evil , or of evil to good , and without which , God ...
... capacity , human actions would be no more susceptible of the relations of morality , than the movements of a machine . Moral agency consists in the voluntary preference of good to evil , or of evil to good , and without which , God ...
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... capacity of his offspring to do good , and left nothing in man but a capacity to do evil ; that it extinguished the life of religion in the soul , that it estranged all his affec- tions from the law of God , and impressed on his dis ...
... capacity of his offspring to do good , and left nothing in man but a capacity to do evil ; that it extinguished the life of religion in the soul , that it estranged all his affec- tions from the law of God , and impressed on his dis ...
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... capacity which God had given them . In Acts 10 , we read of Cornelius , a centurion , a devout man , and one who fear- ed God with all his house , who gave much alms to the people , and prayed to God always . Indeed , in all ages and ...
... capacity which God had given them . In Acts 10 , we read of Cornelius , a centurion , a devout man , and one who fear- ed God with all his house , who gave much alms to the people , and prayed to God always . Indeed , in all ages and ...
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... capacity , and accommodated to our situation . Beholding it at a dis- tance , it is but a sparkling star , to which if we would approach nearer , its magnitude would appal our senses . To see it in its natural size , and exact propor ...
... capacity , and accommodated to our situation . Beholding it at a dis- tance , it is but a sparkling star , to which if we would approach nearer , its magnitude would appal our senses . To see it in its natural size , and exact propor ...
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