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Page 12
... just Discernment , into an unper- ceiv'd Confufion of Ideas . I believe , it will at laft laft be found , that the govedor , the funda- ( 12 ) CHA P III Of the comparative Value, Excellency, and Obli gation and pofitive Precepts.
... just Discernment , into an unper- ceiv'd Confufion of Ideas . I believe , it will at laft laft be found , that the govedor , the funda- ( 12 ) CHA P III Of the comparative Value, Excellency, and Obli gation and pofitive Precepts.
Page 44
... just the fame moral Goodness in obeying God , though the Matter of it be otherwife indifferent : And the eternal or unchangeable Obligation that eve- ry Creature lies under to obey his Creator in e- very Thing , makes it as neceffary ...
... just the fame moral Goodness in obeying God , though the Matter of it be otherwife indifferent : And the eternal or unchangeable Obligation that eve- ry Creature lies under to obey his Creator in e- very Thing , makes it as neceffary ...
Page 68
... just now mention'd . 1. As the Christian Religion is the best Re- ligion that ever was given for procuring the Peace of Society , and indeed for fecuring and inforcing all moral Virtues ; and as the Sacra- ments are the main Support of ...
... just now mention'd . 1. As the Christian Religion is the best Re- ligion that ever was given for procuring the Peace of Society , and indeed for fecuring and inforcing all moral Virtues ; and as the Sacra- ments are the main Support of ...
Page 31
... just now " been mention'd ; to wit , that God is to be obeyed in every Thing « which he commands . He therefore who refuíes to obey even a pofitive Law , is no moral Man . ” Stebbing's Abridgm . of Clag . p . 63. Fol . edit . * Defence ...
... just now " been mention'd ; to wit , that God is to be obeyed in every Thing « which he commands . He therefore who refuíes to obey even a pofitive Law , is no moral Man . ” Stebbing's Abridgm . of Clag . p . 63. Fol . edit . * Defence ...
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... just and correct a Notion of the Reasons of Things , as Christians have . Their Virtues therefore are much more defective , and their Services low , and lame : On account of which Defects and their coming far fhort of the Rule , They ...
... just and correct a Notion of the Reasons of Things , as Christians have . Their Virtues therefore are much more defective , and their Services low , and lame : On account of which Defects and their coming far fhort of the Rule , They ...
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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.