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“ This faculty was placed within us to be our proper governor ; to direct and regulate all under principles , passions , and motives of action . This is its right and office . Thus sacred is its authority .
“ This faculty was placed within us to be our proper governor ; to direct and regulate all under principles , passions , and motives of action . This is its right and office . Thus sacred is its authority .
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Were he an unrighteous God who has full sway over us , why is Conscience , that faculty which disowns unrighteousness and outlaws it , permitted by him to assume the rank of an arbiter and not only to speak but to speak as one having ...
Were he an unrighteous God who has full sway over us , why is Conscience , that faculty which disowns unrighteousness and outlaws it , permitted by him to assume the rank of an arbiter and not only to speak but to speak as one having ...
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... without the intervention of reasoning and without any sensible exertion on the part of the discursive faculty , or of that faculty by which it is , that we arrive at some distant conclusion by a train of inferences .
... without the intervention of reasoning and without any sensible exertion on the part of the discursive faculty , or of that faculty by which it is , that we arrive at some distant conclusion by a train of inferences .
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Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
on the side of Theism | 121 |
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| Title | The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1 The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Thomas Chalmers |
| Author | Thomas Chalmers |
| Publisher | W. Collins, 1836 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2019 |
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