The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1809 - Congregational churches |
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... observed between the chief end for which an agent or efficient exerts any act and performs any work , and the ultimate end . These two phrases are not al- ways precisely of the same signification : And though the chief end be always an ...
... observed between the chief end for which an agent or efficient exerts any act and performs any work , and the ultimate end . These two phrases are not al- ways precisely of the same signification : And though the chief end be always an ...
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... observed before , a subordinate end is never more val- ued , than the end to which it is subordinate . Moreover , the subordinate effects , events , or things brought to pass , which all are means of this end , all uniting to contri ...
... observed before , a subordinate end is never more val- ued , than the end to which it is subordinate . Moreover , the subordinate effects , events , or things brought to pass , which all are means of this end , all uniting to contri ...
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... observed of things which may be said to be agreeable to an agent , in themselves con- sidered in two senses . ( 1. ) What is in itself grateful to an agent , and valued and loved on its own account , simply and ab- solutely considered ...
... observed of things which may be said to be agreeable to an agent , in themselves con- sidered in two senses . ( 1. ) What is in itself grateful to an agent , and valued and loved on its own account , simply and ab- solutely considered ...
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... observed , that when I speak of God's ultimate and in the creation of the world , in the following discourse , I commonly mean in that highest sense , viz . the original ulti- mate end . Sixthly , It may be further observed , that the ...
... observed , that when I speak of God's ultimate and in the creation of the world , in the following discourse , I commonly mean in that highest sense , viz . the original ulti- mate end . Sixthly , It may be further observed , that the ...
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... observed these things , which are proper to be taken no- tice of , to prevent confusion in discourses on this ... observe some things which reason seems to dictate in this matter . Indeed this affair , seems properly to be an affair of ...
... observed these things , which are proper to be taken no- tice of , to prevent confusion in discourses on this ... observe some things which reason seems to dictate in this matter . Indeed this affair , seems properly to be an affair of ...
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