The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall ...: With a Life of the Author, and a Collection of His Letters, Volume 4J.H. Parker, 1844 |
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... man to con- sult and ponder with himself whether he should draw in his breath , or whether he should increase in stature . Secondly , to " resolve " implies a man's dominion over his own actions , 650 and his actual determination of ...
... man to con- sult and ponder with himself whether he should draw in his breath , or whether he should increase in stature . Secondly , to " resolve " implies a man's dominion over his own actions , 650 and his actual determination of ...
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... man be a free agent , that is to say , whether he can write or forbear , speak or be silent , according to his will ... man's praise ' . The crisis or the catastrophe of their discourse is when they come to their " but . " As , he is a ...
... man be a free agent , that is to say , whether he can write or forbear , speak or be silent , according to his will ... man's praise ' . The crisis or the catastrophe of their discourse is when they come to their " but . " As , he is a ...
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... man's hand . Secondly , he makes but an empty show of a power in the will , either to write or not to write . If it be precisely and inevitably determined in all occurrences whatsoever , what a man shall will and what he shall not will ...
... man's hand . Secondly , he makes but an empty show of a power in the will , either to write or not to write . If it be precisely and inevitably determined in all occurrences whatsoever , what a man shall will and what he shall not will ...
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... man's will without his will , is the worst of all others ; and is so far from lessening those difficulties and absurdities which flow from the fatal destiny of the Stoics , that it increaseth them , and rendereth them unanswerable . No man ...
... man's will without his will , is the worst of all others ; and is so far from lessening those difficulties and absurdities which flow from the fatal destiny of the Stoics , that it increaseth them , and rendereth them unanswerable . No man ...
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... man is more large in the extension of the object , which is both good and evil , than the liberty of God and the good angels , whose object is only good . But withal , the liberty of man comes short in the intension of the power . Man ...
... man is more large in the extension of the object , which is both good and evil , than the liberty of God and the good angels , whose object is only good . But withal , the liberty of man comes short in the intension of the power . Man ...
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absolute actions Animadv Animadversions answer answereth antece antecedent appetite argument Aristot BRAMHALL CASTIGATIONS choose Christian command concurrence confess consequence contingent contradiction contrary creatures decrees Defence deliberation deny determined Disc DISCOURSE disjunctive proposition distinction Divine doctrine dominion doth effect election Epictetus error eternity evil extrinsecal causes faculty fault fear forbear Fount free agent freely God's grace hath Hobbes Holy Ibid impediments impossible JOHN BRAMHALL judge judgment justice Lastly Leviathan maketh man's means ment moral motion natural neces necessarily necessary cause necessitated never NUMBER object opinion otherwise Ovid passion philosophers prescience produce proposition prove punishment question reader reason saith sary Scripture Secondly Secund sense shew soul spontaneous Stoics sufficient supposition T. H. Numb telleth terms of art things Thirdly thou tion true liberty truth understanding unjust unto voluntary whatsoever wherein whereof words καὶ
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Page 221 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 312 - That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee : Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right...
Page 71 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour ? What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction ; and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory...
Page 240 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 65 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Page 566 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman ; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman ; but the woman for the man.
Page 282 - I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing : therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live...
Page 240 - A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Page 350 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 77 - But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. "Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.