The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1809 - Congregational churches |
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... holy love and praise of his saints , as the image and communication of his own holiness , it is not properly any pleasure distinct from the pleasure he has in himself ; but is truly an instance of it . And with respect to God's being ...
... holy love and praise of his saints , as the image and communication of his own holiness , it is not properly any pleasure distinct from the pleasure he has in himself ; but is truly an instance of it . And with respect to God's being ...
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... holy Scriptures cancerning God's last End in the Creation of the World . SECTION I. The scriptures represent God as making himself his own last end in the creation of the world . IT is manifest , that the scriptures speak , on all occa ...
... holy Scriptures cancerning God's last End in the Creation of the World . SECTION I. The scriptures represent God as making himself his own last end in the creation of the world . IT is manifest , that the scriptures speak , on all occa ...
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... holy Scrip- tures . WE have seen that the scriptures speak of the creation of the world as being for God , as its end . What remains therefore to be inquired into , is , which way do the scriptures represent God as making himself his ...
... holy Scrip- tures . WE have seen that the scriptures speak of the creation of the world as being for God , as its end . What remains therefore to be inquired into , is , which way do the scriptures represent God as making himself his ...
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... holy scripture from time to time to be spoken of as the main end of the goodness of the good part of the moral world , so that the respect and relation their virtue or goodness has to that end , is what chiefly makes it valuable and ...
... holy scripture from time to time to be spoken of as the main end of the goodness of the good part of the moral world , so that the respect and relation their virtue or goodness has to that end , is what chiefly makes it valuable and ...
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... holy con- versation , or instances of their good and approved behav- ior ; that we must suppose , was what they ought to seek as their last end ; and consequently by the preceding position was the same with God's last end in the ...
... holy con- versation , or instances of their good and approved behav- ior ; that we must suppose , was what they ought to seek as their last end ; and consequently by the preceding position was the same with God's last end in the ...
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