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... proving sentence , " Well done , good and faithful servant . " Notwithstanding these several points of agreement between benevolence and selfishness , there is still a wide and radical difference between them . ap- In the first place ...
... proving sentence , " Well done , good and faithful servant . " Notwithstanding these several points of agreement between benevolence and selfishness , there is still a wide and radical difference between them . ap- In the first place ...
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... proving the reality of such benevolence as has now been described ; but to explain the meaning of the ex- pressions love of happiness , self - love , selfishness , disinterest- ed benevolence , ultimate end , & c . Let us now inquire ...
... proving the reality of such benevolence as has now been described ; but to explain the meaning of the ex- pressions love of happiness , self - love , selfishness , disinterest- ed benevolence , ultimate end , & c . Let us now inquire ...
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... prove , that God makes Himself one ulti- mate end of all His works . This is the purport of the numerous passages of scripture which are adduced to " show that God's glory is an ultimate end of the creation ; " that He made the world ...
... prove , that God makes Himself one ulti- mate end of all His works . This is the purport of the numerous passages of scripture which are adduced to " show that God's glory is an ultimate end of the creation ; " that He made the world ...
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... prove that He does this , to the exclusion of all other ultimate ends . President Edwards , in the introduction of the work just re- ferred to , distinctly states , that " two different ends may be both ultimate ends , and yet not be ...
... prove that He does this , to the exclusion of all other ultimate ends . President Edwards , in the introduction of the work just re- ferred to , distinctly states , that " two different ends may be both ultimate ends , and yet not be ...
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... proving that God's last end , in creating the world , was His own glory . Are they not also applicable to the ho- liness and happiness of the created universe ? Is not this a good which is valuable in itself , on its own account ? Is it ...
... proving that God's last end , in creating the world , was His own glory . Are they not also applicable to the ho- liness and happiness of the created universe ? Is not this a good which is valuable in itself , on its own account ? Is it ...
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Page 144 - And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Page 410 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 179 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Page 190 - Lest Satan should get an advantage of us : for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Page 476 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 389 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious.
Page 74 - Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Page 157 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 362 - Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Page 21 - according to the deeds done in the body," when " they that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever...