The Light of Nature Pursued, Volume 3Hilliard and Brown, 1831 - Philosophy |
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... operation originally from the first ; whose omniscience would not permit him to be ignorant of the particular effects they should produce , nor to put them in motion without a design of producing the very effects to result therefrom ...
... operation originally from the first ; whose omniscience would not permit him to be ignorant of the particular effects they should produce , nor to put them in motion without a design of producing the very effects to result therefrom ...
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... operation extend no further than to make us satisfied with the universe we live in , to raise us out of ourselves and inspire us with an honest zeal for the good of mankind : yet this little principle wherever taking strong root , casts ...
... operation extend no further than to make us satisfied with the universe we live in , to raise us out of ourselves and inspire us with an honest zeal for the good of mankind : yet this little principle wherever taking strong root , casts ...
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... operations . have been Christians called Anthropomorphites , who ascribed to God a human shape , because I suppose they had so inuch of the Epicurean as to hold that intelligence could not subsist without a brain , and senses , and ...
... operations . have been Christians called Anthropomorphites , who ascribed to God a human shape , because I suppose they had so inuch of the Epicurean as to hold that intelligence could not subsist without a brain , and senses , and ...
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... operation without an immediate presence of the agent , nor can our narrow minds conceive him present in an unusual place without a removal from his ordinary residence : but our thoughts are too busied in seasons of extraordinary events ...
... operation without an immediate presence of the agent , nor can our narrow minds conceive him present in an unusual place without a removal from his ordinary residence : but our thoughts are too busied in seasons of extraordinary events ...
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... in his essence or immediate operations : for which reason he is often represented as acting by his subordinate ministers , send- VOL . III . 6 ing his destroying or protecting Angel to spread desolation , MAJESTY , 45 Majesty -
... in his essence or immediate operations : for which reason he is often represented as acting by his subordinate ministers , send- VOL . III . 6 ing his destroying or protecting Angel to spread desolation , MAJESTY , 45 Majesty -
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Page 61 - And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die, for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Page 322 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 310 - As I live, saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live, turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways; for why will ye die?
Page 297 - Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden and I will give you rest.
Page 244 - The wind bloweth where it listeth. Thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth.
Page 12 - They cannot mean that," answered Mr. Mertonn, " for our Lord has also told us to let our light so shine before men, that they may see our good works, and glorify our Father Which is in Heaven...
Page 268 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 307 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 282 - Many will say to me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works?" And then will I profess unto them, "I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 341 - God is faithful, who will not suffer" us " to be tempted above that" we " are able ; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that " we