Discourses concerning the being and natural perfections of God, Volume 2H. Whitridge, 1757 - God |
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... essential rectitude ; and all of them taken together lay us under an in-. dispensable. obligation. ,. which. an. attentive. mind. C 4 SERM.cannot but be sensible of . And let us still. cannot power in what Sense it is to be attributed to ...
... essential rectitude ; and all of them taken together lay us under an in-. dispensable. obligation. ,. which. an. attentive. mind. C 4 SERM.cannot but be sensible of . And let us still. cannot power in what Sense it is to be attributed to ...
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... essential to the cha- racter of the supreme governor of the world , than perfect holiness ; he loves righteousness and hates iniquity . As every man's own con- science approving the righteous laws of his nature , is a witness to the ...
... essential to the cha- racter of the supreme governor of the world , than perfect holiness ; he loves righteousness and hates iniquity . As every man's own con- science approving the righteous laws of his nature , is a witness to the ...
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... essential pious affections which arise from it , by destroying confidence in God , from whose dominion , according to that scheme , evil is exempted , and we can have no hope of escaping it by his infufficient power ; and it corrupts ...
... essential pious affections which arise from it , by destroying confidence in God , from whose dominion , according to that scheme , evil is exempted , and we can have no hope of escaping it by his infufficient power ; and it corrupts ...
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... essential perfection of his nature , and manifested by his diffusing its beneficial fruits over the whole creation , and opening his hand liberally to fatisfy every living thing , ) yet at the fame time declares very exprefly , that ...
... essential perfection of his nature , and manifested by his diffusing its beneficial fruits over the whole creation , and opening his hand liberally to fatisfy every living thing , ) yet at the fame time declares very exprefly , that ...
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... essential , ( and if it be an attribute at all , it must be essential , ) to the divine perfection and felicity , and be in its own nature communicable , that it must like- wife be essential to the highest perfection and happiness that ...
... essential , ( and if it be an attribute at all , it must be essential , ) to the divine perfection and felicity , and be in its own nature communicable , that it must like- wife be essential to the highest perfection and happiness that ...
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Page 406 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Page 372 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 241 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 3 - him from the creation of the world are clearly feen, " being underftood by the things that are made, even " his eternal power and godhead...
Page 241 - LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Page 238 - Lo, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 207 - But he that knew not. and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Page 102 - See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Page 344 - God hath taken care of all our good, and if godliness be profitable to all things and hath the promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come...
Page 172 - Thou fhalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy mind ; this is the firft and great commandment : and the fecond is like unto it, Thou fhalt love thy neighbour as thyfelf ; on thefe two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.