The Works of the Learned Benjamin Whichcote ...J. Chalmers, 1751 - 448 pages |
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... thought . Men are as they have used themselves , fui cuique mores tingunt fortunam . A man's temper and improvement make him that which he is . We work out of ourselves . Knowledge is fetcht out of us , not brought into us . Scientia ...
... thought . Men are as they have used themselves , fui cuique mores tingunt fortunam . A man's temper and improvement make him that which he is . We work out of ourselves . Knowledge is fetcht out of us , not brought into us . Scientia ...
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... thought , and examined . None is felf - fufficient , or born to actual knowledge ; but to faculties and poffibilities only : we are much more ourselves , where we have taken pains and made en- quiry . 5. Another cause of error , is want ...
... thought , and examined . None is felf - fufficient , or born to actual knowledge ; but to faculties and poffibilities only : we are much more ourselves , where we have taken pains and made en- quiry . 5. Another cause of error , is want ...
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... thought of by the whole feries of chriftians of all ages , but only of late . Some allege the feverity of fome of the ancient prophets , as Elijah , Elifba , and the Baptift . But the difpenfation wherein fuch carriage and practice was ...
... thought of by the whole feries of chriftians of all ages , but only of late . Some allege the feverity of fome of the ancient prophets , as Elijah , Elifba , and the Baptift . But the difpenfation wherein fuch carriage and practice was ...
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... thought it again and again , day after day . We fhould doubt and deliberate , before we refolve and deter- mine . Nothing are we so fure of , as of that which we are fure of after doubting . Where this is not C 3 done done , there are ...
... thought it again and again , day after day . We fhould doubt and deliberate , before we refolve and deter- mine . Nothing are we so fure of , as of that which we are fure of after doubting . Where this is not C 3 done done , there are ...
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... thought . ' Tis the lamentable condition of lap- fed mortals , that , of the generality of men it may be faid ( through none - ufe , mifufe and abufe of themselves ) what God faid of the great city of Ni- neveh , Jon . iv . II . wherein ...
... thought . ' Tis the lamentable condition of lap- fed mortals , that , of the generality of men it may be faid ( through none - ufe , mifufe and abufe of themselves ) what God faid of the great city of Ni- neveh , Jon . iv . II . wherein ...
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Page 157 - But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
Page 21 - Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Page 41 - He breathed into him the breath of life, and he became a living soul...
Page 330 - Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not to thine own understanding ; in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Page 96 - Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began...
Page 41 - For, we know that if our earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diflblved, we have a building of GOD, an houfe not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Page 330 - He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
Page 367 - Chrift, and be found in him; not having mine own righteoufnefs, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Chrift, the righteoufnefs which is of God by faith
Page 161 - Me through their word ; that they all may be one ; as Thou, FATHER, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they alfo may be one in Us : that the world may believe that Thou haft fent Me.
Page 139 - God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God : but made himfelf of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a fervant, and was made in the likenefs of men...