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... given fometimes to meer Pagan Virtues , any weak Per- fons should think that this high Commendation might be paffed upon them , when they are far from meriting any Thing like it , being mean and low Things in Comparison , and having in ...
... given fometimes to meer Pagan Virtues , any weak Per- fons should think that this high Commendation might be paffed upon them , when they are far from meriting any Thing like it , being mean and low Things in Comparison , and having in ...
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... given to Adam , and of like kind were feveral occafional Precepts given by God to Abraham , Ifaac , Jacob , Mofes , Joshua , Saul , David , and to the Prophets . Of the permanent Kind , were the ritual , and fome judicial Precepts given ...
... given to Adam , and of like kind were feveral occafional Precepts given by God to Abraham , Ifaac , Jacob , Mofes , Joshua , Saul , David , and to the Prophets . Of the permanent Kind , were the ritual , and fome judicial Precepts given ...
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... given Du- ration , or for ever and ever . Upon the Whole , we may affirm , that it is always our boundén Duty to obey the Commands of God , be the Matter of them moral or pofitive : And it will be always finful to difobey the Commands ...
... given Du- ration , or for ever and ever . Upon the Whole , we may affirm , that it is always our boundén Duty to obey the Commands of God , be the Matter of them moral or pofitive : And it will be always finful to difobey the Commands ...
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... 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 pofitive Inftitutions is ...
... 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 pofitive Inftitutions is ...
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... And if he himself has given us the Reasons , it is a Favour that he has done fo . But I do not observe that he always gave Reafons Particularly , when he inftituted the Form Form of Baptifm in the Name of Father , Son ( 20 )
... And if he himself has given us the Reasons , it is a Favour that he has done fo . But I do not observe that he always gave Reafons Particularly , when he inftituted the Form Form of Baptifm in the Name of Father , Son ( 20 )
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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.