The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1809 - Congregational churches |
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Page 54
... persons make both objections , they must be inconsistent with themselves . 2. In answer to the objection we are upon , as to God's creatures whose esteem and love he seeks , being infinitely inferior to God as nothing and vanity ; I ...
... persons make both objections , they must be inconsistent with themselves . 2. In answer to the objection we are upon , as to God's creatures whose esteem and love he seeks , being infinitely inferior to God as nothing and vanity ; I ...
Page 58
... person in the world , seeks his own happiness in doing good to others , because he places his happiness in their good . His mind is so enlarged as to take them , as it were , into himself . Thus , when they are hap py , he feels it , he ...
... person in the world , seeks his own happiness in doing good to others , because he places his happiness in their good . His mind is so enlarged as to take them , as it were , into himself . Thus , when they are hap py , he feels it , he ...
Page 67
... persons who are described in scripture as approved saints , and set forth as examples of pie- ty , sought as their last and highest end in the things which they did , and which are mentioned as parts of their holy con- versation , or ...
... persons who are described in scripture as approved saints , and set forth as examples of pie- ty , sought as their last and highest end in the things which they did , and which are mentioned as parts of their holy con- versation , or ...
Page 77
... persons in earth and heav- en , in thus expressing their desires of the glory of God , have respect to it , not merely as a subordinate end , or merely for the sake of something else ; but as that which they look upon in itself valuable ...
... persons in earth and heav- en , in thus expressing their desires of the glory of God , have respect to it , not merely as a subordinate end , or merely for the sake of something else ; but as that which they look upon in itself valuable ...
Page 84
... person which God has set at the head of the moral world , as its chief governor , even Jesus Christ , seeks as his chief end . And it has been shewn , that it is the chief end for which that part of the moral world which are good , are ...
... person which God has set at the head of the moral world , as its chief governor , even Jesus Christ , seeks as his chief end . And it has been shewn , that it is the chief end for which that part of the moral world which are good , are ...
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