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... Goodness . Having premis'd thefe general Things as pre- paratory to the main Questions , I now proceed more directly and closely to what I intend . CHA P. III . Of the comparative Value , Excellency , or Obliga- tion of moral and ...
... Goodness . Having premis'd thefe general Things as pre- paratory to the main Questions , I now proceed more directly and closely to what I intend . CHA P. III . Of the comparative Value , Excellency , or Obliga- tion of moral and ...
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... , upon Account of their own natural and in trinsical Goodness ; but the ritual and inftrumen- tal Parts of Religion are only pleafing to God in order Answer to the Remarks , p . 75 C order to these , and fo far as they tend ( 37 )
... , upon Account of their own natural and in trinsical Goodness ; but the ritual and inftrumen- tal Parts of Religion are only pleafing to God in order Answer to the Remarks , p . 75 C order to these , and fo far as they tend ( 37 )
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... Goodness here spoken of , means natural Goodness only , or beneficial Tendency , fuch as appears in Almfgiving , Liberality , & c . and which is the fame , though the Thing be done out of Vanity , or Oftentation , or other worfe ...
... Goodness here spoken of , means natural Goodness only , or beneficial Tendency , fuch as appears in Almfgiving , Liberality , & c . and which is the fame , though the Thing be done out of Vanity , or Oftentation , or other worfe ...
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... Goodness and Mercy from God , Compaffion and Charity from Religion , is to make the two beft Things in the World , God and Religion , good for nothing . He has another near akin to it , a little lower in the fame Page . What is Religion ...
... Goodness and Mercy from God , Compaffion and Charity from Religion , is to make the two beft Things in the World , God and Religion , good for nothing . He has another near akin to it , a little lower in the fame Page . What is Religion ...
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... Goodness in themselves , but were of an indifferent Nature . But the ingenious Author mistakes in thinking that any Actions as to their Matter , have any moral Goodness in them . They have a natural Tendency to promote the common ...
... Goodness in themselves , but were of an indifferent Nature . But the ingenious Author mistakes in thinking that any Actions as to their Matter , have any moral Goodness in them . They have a natural Tendency to promote the common ...
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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.