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... cause it tends to inftruct , inlighten , improve , and fave Mankind , and that not for the prefent only , but to all Eternity . It must not therefore be said that positive Duties , as to their material Part , or outward A & , have not a ...
... cause it tends to inftruct , inlighten , improve , and fave Mankind , and that not for the prefent only , but to all Eternity . It must not therefore be said that positive Duties , as to their material Part , or outward A & , have not a ...
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... Cause prior to the first , as a Lawgiver higher than the Higheft , or a Law without a Lawgiver , or Obligation without Law . The Sum of what he has to plead , is , that where there was no Law , and yet God could not * Defence , p . 6 ...
... Cause prior to the first , as a Lawgiver higher than the Higheft , or a Law without a Lawgiver , or Obligation without Law . The Sum of what he has to plead , is , that where there was no Law , and yet God could not * Defence , p . 6 ...
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... cause they are many , and we can do but one Thing at a Time : But we can always forbear the doing what God has forbidden . One Sort therefore admits of Intermiffions in acting , the other admits of none in the forbearing to act . THE ...
... cause they are many , and we can do but one Thing at a Time : But we can always forbear the doing what God has forbidden . One Sort therefore admits of Intermiffions in acting , the other admits of none in the forbearing to act . THE ...
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... cause the very Nature and End of the Sacra- ment requires the Exercise of those Virtues , as it is covenanting with God , expreffing our firm Reliance upon the fole Merits of Chrift for our Salvation , and maintaining Communion both ...
... cause the very Nature and End of the Sacra- ment requires the Exercise of those Virtues , as it is covenanting with God , expreffing our firm Reliance upon the fole Merits of Chrift for our Salvation , and maintaining Communion both ...
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... Causes with- out Effects , or Effects without Causes . Chriftian Virtues therefore , when properly fuch , must be allowed to exceed Pagan , as much as Light does Obfcurity . The Schools of Rome or Athens were never yet comparable to the ...
... Causes with- out Effects , or Effects without Causes . Chriftian Virtues therefore , when properly fuch , must be allowed to exceed Pagan , as much as Light does Obfcurity . The Schools of Rome or Athens were never yet comparable to the ...
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abfolutely Actions Acts affert againſt alfo alſo anſwer Baptifm becauſe befides beſt bleffed Cafe Cauſe Chrift Chriftian Circumſtances Clarke's Communion Confequence confidered Covenant Defence Difpofitions divine Doctrine elſe Eucharift Exercife faid Faith fame faved feems felves fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome ftand fuch fufficient fuppofe God's Happineſs himſelf holy holy Communion Ibid Inftances itſelf Jews juft Law of Nature lefs ligion Love Mankind Means ment moft moral and pofitive moral Duties moral Virtues moſt muft muſt neceffary Neceffity nefs Notion Obedience obey obferve Obligation Occafion Oppofition Pagan Perfection Perfon pleaſe Pleaſure pofi pofitive Command pofitive Duties pofitive Inftitutions pofitive Law pofitive Precepts poſitive preſent Principle Puffendorf Purpoſe Pythagoras quæ Queſtion Reaſon refolves refpect reft Religion of Nature Rule Sacraments ſay Scripture ſeems Senfe Senſe ſhall ſpeak ſuppoſed thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe tion true unleſs Uſe Wiſdom καὶ τὸ
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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.