Letters to a Young Lady: In which the Duties and Character of Women are Considered, Chiefly with a Reference to Prevailing Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... nature , as to elude the research of ordinary understandings . It is not my wish to lead you into a maze of controverfy ; but only to guard you against all fchifmatical perfuafives , which may come recommended by the impofing names of ...
... nature , as to elude the research of ordinary understandings . It is not my wish to lead you into a maze of controverfy ; but only to guard you against all fchifmatical perfuafives , which may come recommended by the impofing names of ...
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... natural reli- gion difcovered . " In God we live , and move , and have our being . " On God we depend for health , life , profperity , and * See Remarks on the Lambeth Articles , Letter the 5th . understanding . understanding . But as ...
... natural reli- gion difcovered . " In God we live , and move , and have our being . " On God we depend for health , life , profperity , and * See Remarks on the Lambeth Articles , Letter the 5th . understanding . understanding . But as ...
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... natural life our dependance on the Deity does not supersede human exertion , so in our spi- ritual existence our beft ... nature . But because miracles have fometimes happened , we are not to ex- pect their frequent recurrence in the na ...
... natural life our dependance on the Deity does not supersede human exertion , so in our spi- ritual existence our beft ... nature . But because miracles have fometimes happened , we are not to ex- pect their frequent recurrence in the na ...
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... we be faid to do wrong ? or how are we responsible for the misuse of a talent that we never pof- feffed ? Surely the perverseness of human nature cannot be more ftrongly fhewn , than than by thus turning the omnipotence of God into a 24.
... we be faid to do wrong ? or how are we responsible for the misuse of a talent that we never pof- feffed ? Surely the perverseness of human nature cannot be more ftrongly fhewn , than than by thus turning the omnipotence of God into a 24.
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... natural individual Adam , it is moft certainly contradicted by Scripture , where the father of the human race is reprefented as a finner , but as a reprieved contrite finner , de- pending upon the divine promife * , full of hope in the ...
... natural individual Adam , it is moft certainly contradicted by Scripture , where the father of the human race is reprefented as a finner , but as a reprieved contrite finner , de- pending upon the divine promife * , full of hope in the ...
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Page 248 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 131 - THE grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowfhip of the Holy Ghoft, be, with us all evermore.
Page 145 - I know there is no other name under heaven by which men can be saved.
Page 243 - Whofo eateth my flefh, and drinketh my blood, . hath eternal life, and I will raife him up at the laft day.
Page 303 - that *' there is a time to weep as well as a " time to laugh, a time to dance, and a *
Page 242 - ... 64 But there are fome of you that believe not. For Jefus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who fhould betray him.
Page 182 - ... which eye hath not feen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 81 - fhall the know-*' ledge >of the Lord cover the earth as
Page 351 - Arabs, like other Orientals, hold that, in such matters, man is saved, not by faith, but by want of faith. They have also a saying not unlike ours— " She partly is to blame who has been tried, He comes too near who comes to be denied.
Page 271 - if any provide not for his own, <£ and efpecially for thofe of his own " houfe, he hath denied the faith, and is