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Page xxviii
... vice , or has left us at liberty to act at random , as humour or appetite may prompt us ; but that every man has the rule of right within him ; a rule attended in the very notion of it with authority , and such as has the force of a ...
... vice , or has left us at liberty to act at random , as humour or appetite may prompt us ; but that every man has the rule of right within him ; a rule attended in the very notion of it with authority , and such as has the force of a ...
Page xxxiv
... vice , to produce happi- ness and the contrary , are often hindered from taking effect from accidental causes . However , there are plain- ly the rudiments and beginnings of a righteous adminis- tration to be discerned in the ...
... vice , to produce happi- ness and the contrary , are often hindered from taking effect from accidental causes . However , there are plain- ly the rudiments and beginnings of a righteous adminis- tration to be discerned in the ...
Page xli
... vice and extravagance , exceeding a certain degree . By the course of nature then it appears , God does not always pardon a sinner on his repentance . Yet there is provision made , even in nature , that the miseries which men bring on ...
... vice and extravagance , exceeding a certain degree . By the course of nature then it appears , God does not always pardon a sinner on his repentance . Yet there is provision made , even in nature , that the miseries which men bring on ...
Page xlii
... vice and unhappiness of the world are still there , notwithstanding all our suppositions ; nor is it Christianity that hath put us into this state . We learn also from the same Scriptures , what experience and the use of expiatory ...
... vice and unhappiness of the world are still there , notwithstanding all our suppositions ; nor is it Christianity that hath put us into this state . We learn also from the same Scriptures , what experience and the use of expiatory ...
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... vice the misery , of every creature ; and that regularity , and order , and right , cannot but prevail , finally , in a universe under his government . But we are in no sort judges what are the necessary means of accom- plishing this ...
... vice the misery , of every creature ; and that regularity , and order , and right , cannot but prevail , finally , in a universe under his government . But we are in no sort judges what are the necessary means of accom- plishing this ...
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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...