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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... wherein men are so much divided from one another as in Opinions , and nothing wherein they una- nimoully confpire than in think- ing well of themselves . This is a Humour of fo Catholic a Stamp , and universal Empire , that it may feem ...
... wherein men are so much divided from one another as in Opinions , and nothing wherein they una- nimoully confpire than in think- ing well of themselves . This is a Humour of fo Catholic a Stamp , and universal Empire , that it may feem ...
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... wherein they indulge this Humour more than in the Opinion they have of the Goods of the Mind , and among these there is none which . has fo great a fhare of their Partiality , as their Intellectual faculty . The Defire of Knowledge . is ...
... wherein they indulge this Humour more than in the Opinion they have of the Goods of the Mind , and among these there is none which . has fo great a fhare of their Partiality , as their Intellectual faculty . The Defire of Knowledge . is ...
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... wherein Man acts with Conftancy and Uniformity . Our other Paffions have fome- times their total intermiffions , and at best their increases and decreases , but this is allways at Full , and ftands drawn out to the utmost Stretch of its ...
... wherein Man acts with Conftancy and Uniformity . Our other Paffions have fome- times their total intermiffions , and at best their increases and decreases , but this is allways at Full , and ftands drawn out to the utmost Stretch of its ...
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... wherein confifts the Happiness of the Creator , cannot be a Sin in the Creature . Befides , I would fain know why a man may not as lawfully think well of himself upon the Score of his real worth , as defire that others fhould think well ...
... wherein confifts the Happiness of the Creator , cannot be a Sin in the Creature . Befides , I would fain know why a man may not as lawfully think well of himself upon the Score of his real worth , as defire that others fhould think well ...
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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.