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... should be able to afford him perfect pleasure ; and thereby compenfate the want , and even the lofs , of every other thing . A most ne- ceffary expedient , could they have put the world in poffeffion of it . But how unhap- py they were ...
... should be able to afford him perfect pleasure ; and thereby compenfate the want , and even the lofs , of every other thing . A most ne- ceffary expedient , could they have put the world in poffeffion of it . But how unhap- py they were ...
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... that it is really the moft pernicious vice , as it effectually marrs one's happiness , by hindering his advance- ment toward fuch degrees of perfection as as should have made one qualified for the enjoyments of 18 Eff . I. Of HAPPINESS.
... that it is really the moft pernicious vice , as it effectually marrs one's happiness , by hindering his advance- ment toward fuch degrees of perfection as as should have made one qualified for the enjoyments of 18 Eff . I. Of HAPPINESS.
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Robert Riccaltoun. as should have made one qualified for the enjoyments of it . To find out the original , and affign the cause , of this neceffary imperfection , fo obfervable in the most perfect beings which fall under our observation ...
Robert Riccaltoun. as should have made one qualified for the enjoyments of it . To find out the original , and affign the cause , of this neceffary imperfection , fo obfervable in the most perfect beings which fall under our observation ...
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... should have been affifting in digefting , or other- wife distributing the aliment : yet it never was pretended , that the effects of this sy- stem were any other than purely mechani- cal . Our obfervations , it is true , can go but a ...
... should have been affifting in digefting , or other- wife distributing the aliment : yet it never was pretended , that the effects of this sy- stem were any other than purely mechani- cal . Our obfervations , it is true , can go but a ...
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... all queftion , they are as different from , as the mind is from the body . And fo far , indeed , they may go under the fame name , as the remembrance may , may , and should , be more distinct of what 70 Eff . II . Of the HUMAN.
... all queftion , they are as different from , as the mind is from the body . And fo far , indeed , they may go under the fame name , as the remembrance may , may , and should , be more distinct of what 70 Eff . II . Of the HUMAN.
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Page 375 - For the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Page 311 - Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Page 197 - That was the True Light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world.
Page 196 - For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man ; but holy men of God fpake as they were moved by the Holy Ghoft.
Page 332 - Lord who was born in the world, any one may see ; as also that " He and the Father are one ; and that he is in the Father and the Father in him ;" and that " he who seeth him seeth the Father,
Page 330 - The Lord hath fworn, and will not repent. Thou art a prieft for ever after the order of Melchifedech.
Page 232 - ... to fave to the uttermoft all that come unto God by him.
Page 375 - He that dwelleth in Love .dwelleth in God and God in him; for God is Love. (The room is suddenly black with night. Then a hymn bursts forth as though from a great choir of voices, and in the doorway MICHAEL, bathed in light, stands looking upward. Before him, at the foot of the stairs, kneel the two peasants...
Page 279 - Every man has a right to do what he will with his own...
Page 358 - Not by works of righ" teoufnefs which we have done, but ac" cording to his mercy he faved us, by the " waming of regeneration, and renewing " of the Spirit ; which God, in his love " and kindnefs to man, fheds or pours " out abundantly through Jefus Chrift the