The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... properly be a definition of Necessity , or an explanation of the word , any more than if I explained the word must ... proper sense of the word , which is , or will be , notwithstanding all supposable opposition . To say , that a thing ...
... properly be a definition of Necessity , or an explanation of the word , any more than if I explained the word must ... proper sense of the word , which is , or will be , notwithstanding all supposable opposition . To say , that a thing ...
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... properly make opposition to an event , any otherwise than as we voluntarily oppose it . Things are said to be what must be , or necessarily are , as to us , when they are , or will be , though we desire or endeavor the con- trary , or ...
... properly make opposition to an event , any otherwise than as we voluntarily oppose it . Things are said to be what must be , or necessarily are , as to us , when they are , or will be , though we desire or endeavor the con- trary , or ...
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... proper signification , but quite beside their use in common speech . The reason is manifest ; namely , that in such cases we cannot use the words with reference to a supposable op- position , will or endeavor . And therefore if any man ...
... proper signification , but quite beside their use in common speech . The reason is manifest ; namely , that in such cases we cannot use the words with reference to a supposable op- position , will or endeavor . And therefore if any man ...
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... proper ex- planation of it , on two accounts : First , the words can , or can- not , need explanation as much as the ... properly relative , and have relation to power ex- erted , or that may be exerted , in order to the thing spoken of ...
... proper ex- planation of it , on two accounts : First , the words can , or can- not , need explanation as much as the ... properly relative , and have relation to power ex- erted , or that may be exerted , in order to the thing spoken of ...
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... proper and perfect distinction ; but shall only explain how these two sorts of Necessity are understood , as the terms ... properly as members of society . And sometimes by moral ' Necessity is meant that Necessity of connexion and conse ...
... proper and perfect distinction ; but shall only explain how these two sorts of Necessity are understood , as the terms ... properly as members of society . And sometimes by moral ' Necessity is meant that Necessity of connexion and conse ...
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