The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1809 - Congregational churches |
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... OBJECTION 3. To what has been supposed , that God makes himself his end in this way , viz . in seeking that his glory and excellent perfection should be known , esteemed , loved and delighted in by his creatures , it may be objected ...
... OBJECTION 3. To what has been supposed , that God makes himself his end in this way , viz . in seeking that his glory and excellent perfection should be known , esteemed , loved and delighted in by his creatures , it may be objected ...
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... objection is specious . It hath a shew of argument : But it will appear to be nothing but a shew .... if we con- sider , 1. Whether or no it be not worthy of God , to regard and value what is excellent and valuable in itself , and so to ...
... objection is specious . It hath a shew of argument : But it will appear to be nothing but a shew .... if we con- sider , 1. Whether or no it be not worthy of God , to regard and value what is excellent and valuable in itself , and so to ...
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... objection it is insisted that it becomes God to have some pleasure , love or delight in virtue distinct from his delight in himself . So that if the same persons make both objections , they must be inconsistent with themselves . 2. In ...
... objection it is insisted that it becomes God to have some pleasure , love or delight in virtue distinct from his delight in himself . So that if the same persons make both objections , they must be inconsistent with themselves . 2. In ...
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... OBJECTION 4. To suppose that God makes himself his ultimate end in the creation of the world derogates from the freeness of his goodness , in his beneficence to his creatures ; and from their obligations to gratitude for the good commu ...
... OBJECTION 4. To suppose that God makes himself his ultimate end in the creation of the world derogates from the freeness of his goodness , in his beneficence to his creatures ; and from their obligations to gratitude for the good commu ...
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... objection . This supposeth , that God's having respect to his glory , and the communication of good to his creatures , are things altogether different : That God's communicating his fulness for himself , and his doing it for them , are ...
... objection . This supposeth , that God's having respect to his glory , and the communication of good to his creatures , are things altogether different : That God's communicating his fulness for himself , and his doing it for them , are ...
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