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... cause of virtue so much service , or makes it appear with fuch dig- nity and luftre , as bringing it to the test of a good understanding : as an evidence of which , it has , in fact , been always most cultivated , and held in the ...
... cause of virtue so much service , or makes it appear with fuch dig- nity and luftre , as bringing it to the test of a good understanding : as an evidence of which , it has , in fact , been always most cultivated , and held in the ...
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... cause of opprefs'd innocence : if riches , he is rich in good works , ready to 1 Tim . vi . diftribute , willing to communicate : if ' knowledge , he counts it his highest plea- sure to instruct the ignorant , and admini- fter proper ...
... cause of opprefs'd innocence : if riches , he is rich in good works , ready to 1 Tim . vi . diftribute , willing to communicate : if ' knowledge , he counts it his highest plea- sure to instruct the ignorant , and admini- fter proper ...
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... cause of virtue , and the happiness of the world . The fame may be faid of the love of our country , viz . that ' tis a rational and vir- tuous difpofition , not merely , as ' tis a re- gard for a particular part of the fpecies , but as ...
... cause of virtue , and the happiness of the world . The fame may be faid of the love of our country , viz . that ' tis a rational and vir- tuous difpofition , not merely , as ' tis a re- gard for a particular part of the fpecies , but as ...
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... cause in the world ; and when the opposers of religion find that our argu- ments for it are weak and trifling , they will easily be perfuaded to triumph , as if they had gained a complete victory ; and imagining , tho ' without juft ...
... cause in the world ; and when the opposers of religion find that our argu- ments for it are weak and trifling , they will easily be perfuaded to triumph , as if they had gained a complete victory ; and imagining , tho ' without juft ...
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... natural for unthinking people to make ill ufes of it , injurious to the honour of God , and the cause of piety and virtue . I fhall therefore , I. Point SERM . V. I. Point out two or three things God not an arbitrary being . 103.
... natural for unthinking people to make ill ufes of it , injurious to the honour of God , and the cause of piety and virtue . I fhall therefore , I. Point SERM . V. I. Point out two or three things God not an arbitrary being . 103.
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abfolutely abfurd affert againſt anſwer becauſe befides benevolence beſt cafes cauſe character Chrift Chriſtianity circumftances confcience confequently confider confideration conftitution confufion corrupt creatures defign defire diſhonour doctrines effential enquiry eſtabliſh evil excellent exerciſe faid falfe fame fchifm fcripture feem fenfe fentiments ferve fhall fhew fince fociety fome friendſhip ftate ftrict fuch fufficient fuppofe fupport fupreme goodneſs greateſt happineſs herefy higheſt himſelf honour human nature impartial inftance intereft itſelf judgment juft juſt juſtice leaſt lefs lence ligion Lord mankind meaſure ment mifery mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſteries neceffarily neceffary notions notwithſtanding obfervation ourſelves paffages paffions perfection perfons pleaſures poffible prejudice preſent principles puniſhments purpoſe purſued racter rational reafon religion repreſent reſpect revelation ſcheme ſenſe SERM ſhall ſhould ſtate ſtrong ſuch thefe themſelves ther theſe things thofe thoſe tion true truth underſtanding univerfal uſe utmoſt vice virtue wiſdom
Passagens conhecidas
Página 184 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Página 118 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Página 322 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Página 121 - Hath not the potter power over the clay; of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Página 24 - Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die : yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Página 161 - ... the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book : and the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Página 184 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Página 280 - For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ; ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Página 286 - Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye ; and, behold, a beam if in thine own ey«?