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... , and when a moral One : But enough has been offered to fhew that the pofitive Duties are fometimes preferable , and carry more Virtue in them . * Matth , xxvi . 2. John xii . 8 . III . BUT 1 III . BUT I farther promis'd to fhew that ( 22 )
... , and when a moral One : But enough has been offered to fhew that the pofitive Duties are fometimes preferable , and carry more Virtue in them . * Matth , xxvi . 2. John xii . 8 . III . BUT 1 III . BUT I farther promis'd to fhew that ( 22 )
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Daniel Waterland. 1 III . BUT I farther promis'd to fhew that there may be as great , or greater Iniquity and Impiety in difobeying pofitive Precepts , than in disobeying moral ones . There may be greater Contempt of the divine Authority ...
Daniel Waterland. 1 III . BUT I farther promis'd to fhew that there may be as great , or greater Iniquity and Impiety in difobeying pofitive Precepts , than in disobeying moral ones . There may be greater Contempt of the divine Authority ...
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... farther , as follows : † The Principles laid down by the Prophets of Old , and confirmed by our Saviour Himself in his Approba- tion of the Maxim , I will have Mercy and not Sacrifice , are directly contradictory to those which the ...
... farther , as follows : † The Principles laid down by the Prophets of Old , and confirmed by our Saviour Himself in his Approba- tion of the Maxim , I will have Mercy and not Sacrifice , are directly contradictory to those which the ...
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... farther . THE Prophets , fays he * , tell us --- To what Purpose is the Multitude of your Sacrifices unto me ? I delight not in the Blood of Bullocks . When ye come to appear before me , who hath re- quired this at your Hands , to tread ...
... farther . THE Prophets , fays he * , tell us --- To what Purpose is the Multitude of your Sacrifices unto me ? I delight not in the Blood of Bullocks . When ye come to appear before me , who hath re- quired this at your Hands , to tread ...
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... farther , even to the laying afide the Means intirely , could but the End be fecured : And no doubt but those that make the Objec- tion , think that it may . I muft own , it was my Apprehenfion of this very Confequence ( which too many ...
... farther , even to the laying afide the Means intirely , could but the End be fecured : And no doubt but those that make the Objec- tion , think that it may . I muft own , it was my Apprehenfion of this very Confequence ( which too many ...
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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.