The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... spirit ; which , they say , com- monly inclines persons to confine all that is good to themselves , and their own party , and to make a wide distinction between themselves and others , and stigmatize those that differ from them , with ...
... spirit ; which , they say , com- monly inclines persons to confine all that is good to themselves , and their own party , and to make a wide distinction between themselves and others , and stigmatize those that differ from them , with ...
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... spirit . It may arise from the disposition there is in man- kind ( whom God has distinguished with an ability and inclina- tion for speech ) to improve the benefit of language , in the prop- er use and design of names , given to things ...
... spirit . It may arise from the disposition there is in man- kind ( whom God has distinguished with an ability and inclina- tion for speech ) to improve the benefit of language , in the prop- er use and design of names , given to things ...
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... spirits , which are beings of an active nature , who have the spring of action within themselves , and can deter- mine ... spirit .... But certainly this author , in this matter , must be very unwary and inadvertent . For , 1. The ...
... spirits , which are beings of an active nature , who have the spring of action within themselves , and can deter- mine ... spirit .... But certainly this author , in this matter , must be very unwary and inadvertent . For , 1. The ...
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... spirit endowed with activity comes to act , as why it exerts such an act , and not another ; or why it acts with such a particular deter- mination : If activity of nature be the Cause why a spirit ( the soul of man for instance ) acts ...
... spirit endowed with activity comes to act , as why it exerts such an act , and not another ; or why it acts with such a particular deter- mination : If activity of nature be the Cause why a spirit ( the soul of man for instance ) acts ...
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... Spirit , are not held under any neces- sity , but have liberty to turn themselves , and Dọ WHAT THEY WILL in this life , Thus , the doctor in effect comes into that very notion of liberty , which the Calvinists have ; which he at the ...
... Spirit , are not held under any neces- sity , but have liberty to turn themselves , and Dọ WHAT THEY WILL in this life , Thus , the doctor in effect comes into that very notion of liberty , which the Calvinists have ; which he at the ...
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