The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1809 - Congregational churches |
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... disposition or affection in the will . If the perfection itself be excellent , the knowledge of it is excellent , and so is the esteem and love of it excellent . And as it is fit that God should love and esteem his own excellence , it ...
... disposition or affection in the will . If the perfection itself be excellent , the knowledge of it is excellent , and so is the esteem and love of it excellent . And as it is fit that God should love and esteem his own excellence , it ...
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... disposition in God to communi- cate himself to the creature , moved him to create the world . For though the diffusive disposition in the nature of God , that moved him to create the world , doubtless inclines him to communicate himself ...
... disposition in God to communi- cate himself to the creature , moved him to create the world . For though the diffusive disposition in the nature of God , that moved him to create the world , doubtless inclines him to communicate himself ...
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... disposition that excited God to give creatures existence , was rather a communicative disposition in general , or a disposition in the fulness of the divinity to flow out and diffuse itself . Thus the disposition there is in the root ...
... disposition that excited God to give creatures existence , was rather a communicative disposition in general , or a disposition in the fulness of the divinity to flow out and diffuse itself . Thus the disposition there is in the root ...
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... dispose him to love their exhibition and exertment : Inasmuch as their excellency consists in their relation to use ... disposition , be well pleased to have his excellencies known , acknowledged , es- teemed and prized by others . He ...
... dispose him to love their exhibition and exertment : Inasmuch as their excellency consists in their relation to use ... disposition , be well pleased to have his excellencies known , acknowledged , es- teemed and prized by others . He ...
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... disposition or desire in God , must be prior to the existence of the creature , even in intention and foresight . For it is a disposition that is the original ground of the existence of the creature ; and even of the future in- tended ...
... disposition or desire in God , must be prior to the existence of the creature , even in intention and foresight . For it is a disposition that is the original ground of the existence of the creature ; and even of the future in- tended ...
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