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Page 51
... command of the ac- tive ruling principle , they certainly com- mand the whole man : and cannot fo pro- perly be faid to determine , as to make or create what we call the will ; and accor- dingly employ every power and organ . It is not ...
... command of the ac- tive ruling principle , they certainly com- mand the whole man : and cannot fo pro- perly be faid to determine , as to make or create what we call the will ; and accor- dingly employ every power and organ . It is not ...
Page 55
... . It is evident , these can operate no otherwise than me- chanically ; and yet it is as evident , how thoroughly they command the executive powers powers in the unhappy perfons who are under their influence CONSTITUTION , & c . 55.
... . It is evident , these can operate no otherwise than me- chanically ; and yet it is as evident , how thoroughly they command the executive powers powers in the unhappy perfons who are under their influence CONSTITUTION , & c . 55.
Page 71
... command to call up when one pleases , there can be no occafion for any thing to fupply their place : it must therefore be very wrong and inaccurate , to jumble them , by a common name , into the fame clafs with things of fo different a ...
... command to call up when one pleases , there can be no occafion for any thing to fupply their place : it must therefore be very wrong and inaccurate , to jumble them , by a common name , into the fame clafs with things of fo different a ...
Page 72
... command of the whole man , and attempts at least to make the man ma- fter of his own actions ; unless he chufes rather to continue a flave to blind paffion and affection , and thus to live at random , driven , like his fellow - brutes ...
... command of the whole man , and attempts at least to make the man ma- fter of his own actions ; unless he chufes rather to continue a flave to blind paffion and affection , and thus to live at random , driven , like his fellow - brutes ...
Page 73
... command the whole animal fyftem , muft be allowed by all who are not willing to have man degraded into fomething even below the most part of animals ; and great- ly more miferable than any of them ; both as he is much worfe provided ...
... command the whole animal fyftem , muft be allowed by all who are not willing to have man degraded into fomething even below the most part of animals ; and great- ly more miferable than any of them ; both as he is much worfe provided ...
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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