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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... and the eternity of future punishments , ought not to engender bitter animosities ; for all men cannot think alike , and when another differs from us we ought to remember that we differ just as much 12 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS UPON.
... and the eternity of future punishments , ought not to engender bitter animosities ; for all men cannot think alike , and when another differs from us we ought to remember that we differ just as much 12 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS UPON.
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... punished for not exercising it ? Could such an incapacity be laid to our charge by such a reasonable being as God , who himself made us thus ? If there- fore we do not possess the faculty of discerning be- tween good and evil , and next ...
... punished for not exercising it ? Could such an incapacity be laid to our charge by such a reasonable being as God , who himself made us thus ? If there- fore we do not possess the faculty of discerning be- tween good and evil , and next ...
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... punish a man for crimes he never committed , or to hang him for a robbery , which was perpetrated by one of his remote progenitors , and in the guilt of which his descendants could not possibly be involved . If it would be unjust in man ...
... punish a man for crimes he never committed , or to hang him for a robbery , which was perpetrated by one of his remote progenitors , and in the guilt of which his descendants could not possibly be involved . If it would be unjust in man ...
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... punishment which Adam suffered , and in which his posterity are involved , was an expul sion from paradise , an exposure to bodily toil and mis- ery , and a dissolution into the dust from whence he was taken . Thus the fall did not ...
... punishment which Adam suffered , and in which his posterity are involved , was an expul sion from paradise , an exposure to bodily toil and mis- ery , and a dissolution into the dust from whence he was taken . Thus the fall did not ...
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... punishment inflicted upon Adam for his transgression was natural , not spiritual death , * and * Spiritual death indeed came on him , as the unavoidable consequence of violating the moral law , but not as the threat- ened punishment of ...
... punishment inflicted upon Adam for his transgression was natural , not spiritual death , * and * Spiritual death indeed came on him , as the unavoidable consequence of violating the moral law , but not as the threat- ened punishment of ...
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