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... Use of the Sacraments , is not mo- ral Virtue , but inftrumental only to moral Vir- tue . 6. THAT therefore the Use of the Sacraments is never to be compared with Obedience to mo- ral Duties , with Acts of moral Virtue . THESE ...
... Use of the Sacraments , is not mo- ral Virtue , but inftrumental only to moral Vir- tue . 6. THAT therefore the Use of the Sacraments is never to be compared with Obedience to mo- ral Duties , with Acts of moral Virtue . THESE ...
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... use of the lower and more ambiguous Name of moral Vir- tues . But fo long as the Ideas are kept diftinct and clear , I fhall not contend with any Man about Names or Words only . Having premis'd as much as feemed neceffary for the clear ...
... use of the lower and more ambiguous Name of moral Vir- tues . But fo long as the Ideas are kept diftinct and clear , I fhall not contend with any Man about Names or Words only . Having premis'd as much as feemed neceffary for the clear ...
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... Uses , befides the inward Use they have upon the Per- fon practising the fame , if he does it out of a good Heart . As to the moral Goodness of positive Duties , that stands exactly upon the fame Foot with the moral Goodness in natural ...
... Uses , befides the inward Use they have upon the Per- fon practising the fame , if he does it out of a good Heart . As to the moral Goodness of positive Duties , that stands exactly upon the fame Foot with the moral Goodness in natural ...
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... Use ra- ther , they retain when performed by Hypocrites , without any moral Goodnefs at all . Moral Good- nefs , in us , is chufing and performing those bene- G 2 * Colliber of Revealed Religion , p . 150 . ficial ficial Actions upon a ...
... Use ra- ther , they retain when performed by Hypocrites , without any moral Goodnefs at all . Moral Good- nefs , in us , is chufing and performing those bene- G 2 * Colliber of Revealed Religion , p . 150 . ficial ficial Actions upon a ...
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... Use of the Sacra- ments is not only a Means to Virtue , but is Vir- tue , is part of our Moral and Christian Holiness , Piety , and Perfection . III . THE two Sacraments , befides their being Means of Virtue , and of Grace , and part of ...
... Use of the Sacra- ments is not only a Means to Virtue , but is Vir- tue , is part of our Moral and Christian Holiness , Piety , and Perfection . III . THE two Sacraments , befides their being Means of Virtue , and of Grace , and part of ...
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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.