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Page 156
... PRAISE and DIS- CY , PRAISE , & c . SECTION I. GOD's Moral Excellency necessary , yet virtuous and praiseworthy . HAVING considered the first thing that was proposed to be inquired into , relating to that freedom of Will which Arminians ...
... PRAISE and DIS- CY , PRAISE , & c . SECTION I. GOD's Moral Excellency necessary , yet virtuous and praiseworthy . HAVING considered the first thing that was proposed to be inquired into , relating to that freedom of Will which Arminians ...
Page 157
... praise . And to this agrees , as is well known , the current doctrine of Arminian writers , who , in general , hold , that there is no virtue or vice , reward or punishment , nothing to be commended or blamed , without this freedom ...
... praise . And to this agrees , as is well known , the current doctrine of Arminian writers , who , in general , hold , that there is no virtue or vice , reward or punishment , nothing to be commended or blamed , without this freedom ...
Page 158
... praise ; at the same time that they have owned God's perfec tion to be necessary , and so in effect representing God as not deserving praise . Certainly , if their words have any mean- ing at all , by praise , they must mean the ...
... praise ; at the same time that they have owned God's perfec tion to be necessary , and so in effect representing God as not deserving praise . Certainly , if their words have any mean- ing at all , by praise , they must mean the ...
Page 159
... praise , diverse from all these things , which men are worthy of for their virtue , and which God is not worthy of , in any degree ?. If that necessity which attends God's moral perfections and actions , be as inconsistent with a being ...
... praise , diverse from all these things , which men are worthy of for their virtue , and which God is not worthy of , in any degree ?. If that necessity which attends God's moral perfections and actions , be as inconsistent with a being ...
Page 160
... praise or dispraise , reward or punishment . He also insists on the same freedom as abso- lutely requisite to a person's being the subject of a law , of precepts or prohibitions ; in the book beforementioned , ( p . 301 , 314 , 328 ...
... praise or dispraise , reward or punishment . He also insists on the same freedom as abso- lutely requisite to a person's being the subject of a law , of precepts or prohibitions ; in the book beforementioned , ( p . 301 , 314 , 328 ...
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