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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... thought he had play'd the Artist well enough in himself , and as to the Harmony of his own frame ac- quitted the Geometry of his Maker . And as men are thus naturally apt to think well of themselves in general , fo there is nothing ...
... thought he had play'd the Artist well enough in himself , and as to the Harmony of his own frame ac- quitted the Geometry of his Maker . And as men are thus naturally apt to think well of themselves in general , fo there is nothing ...
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... thought it expedient to advise his Charge at Rome ( the lib . 2. c . 3. place which Simon Magus the Author of that ... thoughts of themselves , and being to teach them a Leffon of Humility , he modeftly ushers it in with a Preface of ...
... thought it expedient to advise his Charge at Rome ( the lib . 2. c . 3. place which Simon Magus the Author of that ... thoughts of themselves , and being to teach them a Leffon of Humility , he modeftly ushers it in with a Preface of ...
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... thought as free from all Law as the Acts of the will are from all necessity , and accordingly they give every one a Toleration to abound in his own fenfe and ( provided his actions be con- formable to the Rule ) to think what he please ...
... thought as free from all Law as the Acts of the will are from all necessity , and accordingly they give every one a Toleration to abound in his own fenfe and ( provided his actions be con- formable to the Rule ) to think what he please ...
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... thoughts the full Scope . Thus there is no danger of Herefy in afferting or denying the Antipodes , nor is Orthodoxy con- cern'd whether the Moon be habitable . But altho to mistake a Star be of no confequence to the Theorist that fits ...
... thoughts the full Scope . Thus there is no danger of Herefy in afferting or denying the Antipodes , nor is Orthodoxy con- cern'd whether the Moon be habitable . But altho to mistake a Star be of no confequence to the Theorist that fits ...
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... thoughts of our felves that are poffible to be confci ous of no manner of excellency in our felves , and confequently not to be affected with the least Self - complacency That we ought to ac count our felves to be . Nothing to have not ...
... thoughts of our felves that are poffible to be confci ous of no manner of excellency in our felves , and confequently not to be affected with the least Self - complacency That we ought to ac count our felves to be . Nothing to have not ...
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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.