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... Law , this is what in moral Duties conftitutes the Action mo- rally good , and gives it both the Name and Na- ture of Virtue . In pofitive Duties , though the Matter Matter in itself confider'd is indifferent , yet the Obedience ( 13 )
... Law , this is what in moral Duties conftitutes the Action mo- rally good , and gives it both the Name and Na- ture of Virtue . In pofitive Duties , though the Matter Matter in itself confider'd is indifferent , yet the Obedience ( 13 )
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... Action , or the Obligation of the Precept , which must be judged of by other Rules , and meafur'd by other Circumftan ces , as fhall be fhewn in the Sequel . But to be a little more diftinct and particular , I may 1 ་ ་ ་་་ draw draw ...
... Action , or the Obligation of the Precept , which must be judged of by other Rules , and meafur'd by other Circumftan ces , as fhall be fhewn in the Sequel . But to be a little more diftinct and particular , I may 1 ་ ་ ་་་ draw draw ...
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... Actions as to their Matter , have any moral Goodness in them . They have a natural Tendency to promote the common Happiness , which natural Goodness , or Use ra- ther , they retain when performed by Hypocrites , without any moral ...
... Actions as to their Matter , have any moral Goodness in them . They have a natural Tendency to promote the common Happiness , which natural Goodness , or Use ra- ther , they retain when performed by Hypocrites , without any moral ...
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Daniel Waterland. ficial Actions upon a Principle of Obedience , and out of Love to God . And there is just the fame moral Goodness in obeying God , though the Matter of it be otherwife indifferent : And the eternal or unchangeable ...
Daniel Waterland. ficial Actions upon a Principle of Obedience , and out of Love to God . And there is just the fame moral Goodness in obeying God , though the Matter of it be otherwife indifferent : And the eternal or unchangeable ...
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... Action is , it is an Exercise of many and great Virtues . 1. FIRST , it is an Exercife of the Love of God , fhewn in the Obedience paid to his express Commands Commands . It is an Act of Worship , and ( 52 ) They are more than Means ...
... Action is , it is an Exercise of many and great Virtues . 1. FIRST , it is an Exercife of the Love of God , fhewn in the Obedience paid to his express Commands Commands . It is an Act of Worship , and ( 52 ) They are more than Means ...
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Page 27 - There is a curse upon every one ' that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them ; and the same curse must have been on us all, if Christ had not redeemed us from it : * The wages of sin is death.' And St. James asserts, that there is such a complication of all the precepts of the law of God, both with one another, and with the authority of the lawgiver, that 'he who offends in one point, is guilty of all.
Page 24 - When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hands ', to tread my courts...
Page 42 - acceptably worshipped, these men were unavoidably ignorant " of. That God ought to be worshipped, is in the general as " evident and plain from the light of nature, as any thing can " be : but in what particular manner, and with what kind of " service he will be worshipped, cannot be certainly discovered
Page 2 - That there is to a rational being fuch a thing as religion, which may alfo upon this further account properly be called natural. For certainly to obey the law, which the Author of his being has given- him, is religion : and to obey the law, which he has given or revealed to him by making it to refult from the right ufe of his own natural faculties, muft be to him his natural religion.
Page 31 - ... Hence those things and pleasure are so tied together and associated in our minds, that one cannot present itself but the other will also occur. And the association remains even after that which at first gave them the connection is quite forgot, or perhaps does not exist, but the contrary. An instance or two may perhaps make this clear.
Page 53 - None of these things move him ; for hope assures him that his " light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for him a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
Page 77 - ANCIENTS AND MODERNS CONCERNING IT : WITH An Account of the Manuscripts, Versions, and Comments, and such other particulars as are of moment for the determining the Age, and Author, and Value of it, and the Time of its Reception in the Christian Chwches.