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... Scripture . 2. From Reason . Page 27 ib . 37 CHAP . V. Of the Two Sacraments confidered as pofitive Inftitutions . 45 1. They are in fome fenfe Means to moral Vir- tue , both naturally and fupernaturally . 46 2. They are more than Means ...
... Scripture . 2. From Reason . Page 27 ib . 37 CHAP . V. Of the Two Sacraments confidered as pofitive Inftitutions . 45 1. They are in fome fenfe Means to moral Vir- tue , both naturally and fupernaturally . 46 2. They are more than Means ...
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... Scripture only , whether to call them natural , or pofitive . Certain it is , that we are bound to feveral Duties , of natural and eternal Obligation , which yet are not common- ly referred to the Law of Nature , nor placed among the ...
... Scripture only , whether to call them natural , or pofitive . Certain it is , that we are bound to feveral Duties , of natural and eternal Obligation , which yet are not common- ly referred to the Law of Nature , nor placed among the ...
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... Scripture Duties , which we have otherwife no Knowledge of , are yet juftly referred to the Law of Nature , fince Scripture has difcovered what Foundation they have in the Nature and Truth of Things . Thus , for Inftance , To feek firft ...
... Scripture Duties , which we have otherwife no Knowledge of , are yet juftly referred to the Law of Nature , fince Scripture has difcovered what Foundation they have in the Nature and Truth of Things . Thus , for Inftance , To feek firft ...
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... Scripture Precepts , fuch as thefe following : Not to deny Chrift before Men || , not to blafpheme the Holy Ghost * , not to defile the Temple of God † , not to communicate unworthily Quench not the Spirit ** Love not the World t ...
... Scripture Precepts , fuch as thefe following : Not to deny Chrift before Men || , not to blafpheme the Holy Ghost * , not to defile the Temple of God † , not to communicate unworthily Quench not the Spirit ** Love not the World t ...
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... Scripture Encomiums given of Abraham's Faith , Hope , and Refignation , abundantly con- firm it . Ir was with a View to Abraham's Cafe , and any other the like Cafes , that I obferved in my Remarks ( p . 86. ) " That Obedience to ...
... Scripture Encomiums given of Abraham's Faith , Hope , and Refignation , abundantly con- firm it . Ir was with a View to Abraham's Cafe , and any other the like Cafes , that I obferved in my Remarks ( p . 86. ) " That Obedience to ...
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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.