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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... thing , which we think will displease him , and to study the things which he will approve . This is what in other terms we call the love of God , which is not so much a single as a compound affec- tion ; and it is rather an inward ...
... thing , which we think will displease him , and to study the things which he will approve . This is what in other terms we call the love of God , which is not so much a single as a compound affec- tion ; and it is rather an inward ...
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... thing , is varied from ardent affection , and as- sumes the character of holy awe and profound rever- ence . In the contemplation of his mercies , it changes its appearance , and seems dissolved into affectionate gratitude . Enduring ...
... thing , is varied from ardent affection , and as- sumes the character of holy awe and profound rever- ence . In the contemplation of his mercies , it changes its appearance , and seems dissolved into affectionate gratitude . Enduring ...
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... things belong to God ; that if some things in St. Paul's writings were hard to be understood in the age in which they were written , as St. Peter confesses , they must certainly be more obscure after a lapse of so many centuries , than ...
... things belong to God ; that if some things in St. Paul's writings were hard to be understood in the age in which they were written , as St. Peter confesses , they must certainly be more obscure after a lapse of so many centuries , than ...
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... things which have no reference to righteousness . 15. It is no help to the cause of religion to deny moral duties , or to represent them of no avail towards securing the approbation of God , as though pure mo- rality and pure religion ...
... things which have no reference to righteousness . 15. It is no help to the cause of religion to deny moral duties , or to represent them of no avail towards securing the approbation of God , as though pure mo- rality and pure religion ...
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... thing as a law of our rational nature , to which our conduct should be conformable ; for in this case , there would be a law , first which we could not know , and next which we could not obey . It would therefore be no law whatever ...
... thing as a law of our rational nature , to which our conduct should be conformable ; for in this case , there would be a law , first which we could not know , and next which we could not obey . It would therefore be no law whatever ...
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