The Works of the Late Reverend Mr. Robert Riccaltoun, Minister of the Gospel at Hobkirk, Volume 1A. Murray & J. Cochran, 1771 |
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Page 15
... death to another . Though many of these have excellencies and perfections in their kind , acuteness of sense , strength and agility , & c . much a- bove what man can pretend to ; yet what would make the perfectest brute quite hap- py ...
... death to another . Though many of these have excellencies and perfections in their kind , acuteness of sense , strength and agility , & c . much a- bove what man can pretend to ; yet what would make the perfectest brute quite hap- py ...
Page 128
... death cut him fhort in the unfinished purfuit , or , which is but a rare cafe , experience and disappointment drive him into juft and proper fentiments , and fettle him in the calm purfuit and enjoyment of the a- dequate object of his ...
... death cut him fhort in the unfinished purfuit , or , which is but a rare cafe , experience and disappointment drive him into juft and proper fentiments , and fettle him in the calm purfuit and enjoyment of the a- dequate object of his ...
Page 190
... death did not make a full end of the man ? The ob- vious prefumptions lie on the affirmative fide ; and all the arguments for a future state can never be made to rife fo high as a fair probability ; as might eafily be fhewn . Nothing ...
... death did not make a full end of the man ? The ob- vious prefumptions lie on the affirmative fide ; and all the arguments for a future state can never be made to rife fo high as a fair probability ; as might eafily be fhewn . Nothing ...
Page 203
... death certainly will , put an end to them all . And whether that does not make a final end of our being , who could have faid if the cre- ator had not told us ? So abfolutely is eve- ry creature in his hand , that it is aftonifh- ing ...
... death certainly will , put an end to them all . And whether that does not make a final end of our being , who could have faid if the cre- ator had not told us ? So abfolutely is eve- ry creature in his hand , that it is aftonifh- ing ...
Page 206
... death makes a full and final end of man , as is generally allowed it does of other animals , who could fay , without an express revelation of the divine purpose ? Nothing but an overweening partiality to ourfelves could ever have ...
... death makes a full and final end of man , as is generally allowed it does of other animals , who could fay , without an express revelation of the divine purpose ? Nothing but an overweening partiality to ourfelves could ever have ...
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