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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... proceed any farther I find it necessary to lay down this Preparatory Pofition , That we are under an 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 ...
... proceed any farther I find it necessary to lay down this Preparatory Pofition , That we are under an 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 ...
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... proceed to confider that our opinion of our felves is one of those acts of the Understanding which are fubject to Law , or in other terms , that we are not at our own liberty to entertain what Opinions we please concerning our felves ...
... proceed to confider that our opinion of our felves is one of those acts of the Understanding which are fubject to Law , or in other terms , that we are not at our own liberty to entertain what Opinions we please concerning our felves ...
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... proceed to the fecond Obfervable , Namely , That the Standard whereby we are to regulate our Opinions concerning our felves , are thofe ex- cellencies and perfections which we are really indow'd with . Which is collected from these ...
... proceed to the fecond Obfervable , Namely , That the Standard whereby we are to regulate our Opinions concerning our felves , are thofe ex- cellencies and perfections which we are really indow'd with . Which is collected from these ...
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... proceed fo far as this Standard . And Secondly , That we may not go yond it . Firft , That we may proceed fo far . JJ be- It has been taught by fome of the fevere Mafters of Spiritual Mortification , That we ought to take up the most ...
... proceed fo far as this Standard . And Secondly , That we may not go yond it . Firft , That we may proceed fo far . JJ be- It has been taught by fome of the fevere Mafters of Spiritual Mortification , That we ought to take up the most ...
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... proceed from want of a due sense of the Dignity of their Nature . And confequently a due reflection upon a man's own Worth , muft needs be a strong Preferva- tive against whatsoever would ftain its Glory . Shall fuch a man as I flee ...
... proceed from want of a due sense of the Dignity of their Nature . And confequently a due reflection upon a man's own Worth , muft needs be a strong Preferva- tive against whatsoever would ftain its Glory . Shall fuch a man as I flee ...
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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.