A Sermon Preach'd Before the University of Oxford at St. Peters Church in the East on Mid-Lent Sunday, March 29, 1685Leonard Lichfield, 1685 - 28 pages |
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... Obligations whereby I ftand endebted to you , were the Motives which determin'd my Choice in this Dedication . I intend - only hereby to expreß my great Veneration for your Worth , and my Grati- tude for that Particular share which ...
... Obligations whereby I ftand endebted to you , were the Motives which determin'd my Choice in this Dedication . I intend - only hereby to expreß my great Veneration for your Worth , and my Grati- tude for that Particular share which ...
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... Obligation as to the Acts of our understanding , or ( which is all one ) that we are accountable for them . Nay I believe I may venture higher and affirm that the un- derstanding is not only under Obligation but that ' tis the Primary ...
... Obligation as to the Acts of our understanding , or ( which is all one ) that we are accountable for them . Nay I believe I may venture higher and affirm that the un- derstanding is not only under Obligation but that ' tis the Primary ...
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... Obligation . 2 1 But then are we not involv'd in the fame difficulty as to the understanding ? Does not that act with equal ( if not more ) neceffity than the Will ? So I know it is ordinarily taught . But if this be abfolutely and uni ...
... Obligation . 2 1 But then are we not involv'd in the fame difficulty as to the understanding ? Does not that act with equal ( if not more ) neceffity than the Will ? So I know it is ordinarily taught . But if this be abfolutely and uni ...
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... Obligation , Vertue or Vice , Reward or Punishment . But thefe are Abfur- dities not to be indured , and therefore I con- clude according to the Rules of right Reason- ing , the Principle from which they flow to be fo too . 20 To clear ...
... Obligation , Vertue or Vice , Reward or Punishment . But thefe are Abfur- dities not to be indured , and therefore I con- clude according to the Rules of right Reason- ing , the Principle from which they flow to be fo too . 20 To clear ...
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... must be at length refolv'd into an immediate indiffer- ence that the Soul has of attending or not at- tending , and confequently that we are not only under under Obligation as to the acts of the Under- ftanding ( 12 )
... must be at length refolv'd into an immediate indiffer- ence that the Soul has of attending or not at- tending , and confequently that we are not only under under Obligation as to the acts of the Under- ftanding ( 12 )
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Abfurdities and ill according as God action muſt adviſe affuming againſt alſo altho Apoſtle Babylon becauſe he thinks becauſe tis Befides beſt Cauſe cellencies Cenfure concerning our felves confider confiderable confifts courfe Defire derſtanding Dictate Difcourfe Divine elſe faid feem felf fhall fhould think fince Firft Firſt fome Standard fruftrates all Methods ftand fubject fuch fufficient Gnostics God has dealt Happineſs Herod highly Hypothefis ill Confequences indow'd Intellectual JOHN NORRIS juft laft place lefs length refolv'd loves himſelf Mankind Maſter Meaſure measure of Faith miſtake moſt muft natural neceffarily underſtand neceffary Neceffity never fo notwithſtanding obferve Obligation Opinions we pleaſe Paffion perveniffe pleas'd pleaſe concerning poffible prefent Preparatory Pofition proceed fo Proud queſtion real worth reaſon reflect regu rily ſelf Soul neceffarily ſubmit thefe themſelves theſe things think foberly think himſelf third and laft thoſe acts Twas Univerſity unleſs unqualifies uſe Vertue whatſoever wherein whofe whole
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Page 5 - For I fay, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think, of himfelf more highly than he ought to think, but to think foberly, according as God hath dealt to .every man the meafure of Faith.
Page 17 - What man knoweth the thinges of a man if not the spirit of man which [is] in himself.