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Page 52
... agents , to obferve and comply with the order and dictates of reafon , as it is in inferior creatures , to act according to the fenfe and impetus of their natures . It is the fame thing with the world of intelligent and voluntary agents ...
... agents , to obferve and comply with the order and dictates of reafon , as it is in inferior creatures , to act according to the fenfe and impetus of their natures . It is the fame thing with the world of intelligent and voluntary agents ...
Page 53
... agent to follow its ap- petite . Humility , patience , meekness , and fuch like virtues , they do favour nature ; where- as , paffion , pride , and envy do waste and destroy D 3 + nature . nature . Nature's defires are all moderate and ...
... agent to follow its ap- petite . Humility , patience , meekness , and fuch like virtues , they do favour nature ; where- as , paffion , pride , and envy do waste and destroy D 3 + nature . nature . Nature's defires are all moderate and ...
Page 91
... agent should have the reason of things in his mind , and that it should not give law and rule , in tem- per , life ... agents tranfcend in perfection fenfitives and inanimates : reafon being as proportionable to its effects , as any ...
... agent should have the reason of things in his mind , and that it should not give law and rule , in tem- per , life ... agents tranfcend in perfection fenfitives and inanimates : reafon being as proportionable to its effects , as any ...
Page 92
... agents , is apprehenfion of the reason of things . Now the reasons of things are eternal ; they are not sub- ject to any power ; we practise not upon them ; it is our wifdom to obferve them ; and our goodness , to comply with them . But ...
... agents , is apprehenfion of the reason of things . Now the reasons of things are eternal ; they are not sub- ject to any power ; we practise not upon them ; it is our wifdom to obferve them ; and our goodness , to comply with them . But ...
Page 143
... agent , transcendently high above mind and understanding in us ; and that that we know , we did not do , we must neceffarily acknowledge to be the product of the fuperior understanding . The firft knowledge is , that there is a God : if ...
... agent , transcendently high above mind and understanding in us ; and that that we know , we did not do , we must neceffarily acknowledge to be the product of the fuperior understanding . The firft knowledge is , that there is a God : if ...
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