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... excellent and glorious possible . This , therefore , must be worthy to be known by all the intelligent creation , as excellent in itself , and worthy of their pur- suit . And as true virtue distinguishes the inhabitants of heaven and ...
... excellent and glorious possible . This , therefore , must be worthy to be known by all the intelligent creation , as excellent in itself , and worthy of their pur- suit . And as true virtue distinguishes the inhabitants of heaven and ...
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... excellent in themselves , are not properly capable of being attained in any divine operation ; because they do not remain to be attained ; but their exist- ence in all possible respects , must be conceived of as prior to any divine ...
... excellent in themselves , are not properly capable of being attained in any divine operation ; because they do not remain to be attained ; but their exist- ence in all possible respects , must be conceived of as prior to any divine ...
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... excellent should be more re- garded than the less excellent : So that the degree of re- gard should always be in a proportion , compounded of the proportion of existence , and proportion of excellence , or ac- cording to the degree of ...
... excellent should be more re- garded than the less excellent : So that the degree of re- gard should always be in a proportion , compounded of the proportion of existence , and proportion of excellence , or ac- cording to the degree of ...
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... excellent . If it be an excellent thing that there should be a sufficiency for a certain kind of action or operation , the excellency of such a sufficiency must consist in its relation to this kind of operation or effect ; but that ...
... excellent . If it be an excellent thing that there should be a sufficiency for a certain kind of action or operation , the excellency of such a sufficiency must consist in its relation to this kind of operation or effect ; but that ...
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... excellent ; and the knowledge of these excellent perfec- tions , and of these glorious expressions of them , is an excel- lent thing , the existence of which is in itself valuable and de- sirable . It is a thing infinitely good in ...
... excellent ; and the knowledge of these excellent perfec- tions , and of these glorious expressions of them , is an excel- lent thing , the existence of which is in itself valuable and de- sirable . It is a thing infinitely good in ...
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