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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... possessed of the principle in equal degrees , may yet possess the passion in de- grees that are quite unequal . This must be evident to the most superficial observer . As its sensations and its influence are not at all times alike ...
... possessed of the principle in equal degrees , may yet possess the passion in de- grees that are quite unequal . This must be evident to the most superficial observer . As its sensations and its influence are not at all times alike ...
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... possessed that love to God , the first fruits of which were benevolence and good will to men , will be then of more importance to us , than to have acquired all knowledge and to have un- derstood all mysteries . 13. Forgetting this ...
... possessed that love to God , the first fruits of which were benevolence and good will to men , will be then of more importance to us , than to have acquired all knowledge and to have un- derstood all mysteries . 13. Forgetting this ...
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... possess not only the faculty of discerning good from evil , but also the free use of it in choosing either the one or the other , as it seemeth to us best ; in either conforming , or not conforming our actions to the law с 2 of our ...
... possess not only the faculty of discerning good from evil , but also the free use of it in choosing either the one or the other , as it seemeth to us best ; in either conforming , or not conforming our actions to the law с 2 of our ...
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... possess , or which is not subject to the will , or the rational faculty of man . 4. If we possess the faculty of discerning between good and evil , and yet have not the power , to choose the one , and to refuse the other , the power of ...
... possess , or which is not subject to the will , or the rational faculty of man . 4. If we possess the faculty of discerning between good and evil , and yet have not the power , to choose the one , and to refuse the other , the power of ...
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... possess the power to discern , he still would not be able to pursue good , unless by the same miraculous power of God he should be enabled to do it ; that this helpless being is the subject of a law , he thus has neither ACCOUNTABILITY ...
... possess the power to discern , he still would not be able to pursue good , unless by the same miraculous power of God he should be enabled to do it ; that this helpless being is the subject of a law , he thus has neither ACCOUNTABILITY ...
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