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... capacities of action , of enjoyment , and suffering , in one period of their being , greatly different from those appointed them in another period of it . And in other creatures the same law holds . For the dif- ference of their capacities ...
... capacities of action , of enjoyment , and suffering , in one period of their being , greatly different from those appointed them in another period of it . And in other creatures the same law holds . For the dif- ference of their capacities ...
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... capacities of ac- tion , of happiness , and misery ; for we are conscious of acting , of enjoying pleasure , and suffering pain . Now , that we have these powers and capacities before death , is a presumption that we shall retain them ...
... capacities of ac- tion , of happiness , and misery ; for we are conscious of acting , of enjoying pleasure , and suffering pain . Now , that we have these powers and capacities before death , is a presumption that we shall retain them ...
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... capacities of exercising them for the present , as well as the actual exercise of them , may be suspended , and yet the powers themselves remain undestroyed . Since , then , we know not at all upon what the existence of our living ...
... capacities of exercising them for the present , as well as the actual exercise of them , may be suspended , and yet the powers themselves remain undestroyed . Since , then , we know not at all upon what the existence of our living ...
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... capacities they may be endued with . There was once , prior to experience , as great presump- tion against human creatures , as there is against the brute creatures , arriving at that degree of un- Chap . 1. ] 29 Of a Future Life .
... capacities they may be endued with . There was once , prior to experience , as great presump- tion against human creatures , as there is against the brute creatures , arriving at that degree of un- Chap . 1. ] 29 Of a Future Life .
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... capacities in any degree at all . But then , 2dly , The natural immortality of brutes does not in the least imply , that they are endued with any latent capacities of a rational or moral nature . And the economy of the universe might ...
... capacities in any degree at all . But then , 2dly , The natural immortality of brutes does not in the least imply , that they are endued with any latent capacities of a rational or moral nature . And the economy of the universe might ...
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Page xxviii - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Page 52 - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Page lix - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 6 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Page 256 - Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for. See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.
Page 51 - Because I have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded : but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 335 - And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
Page 234 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into.
Page 256 - For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Page 235 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all...