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... preferable to moral . The Command gi- ven to the Apostles to preach the Gospel to every Creature , was , I fuppofe , a pofitive Command : The Good intended by it , was the Salvation of Mankind hereafter , as well as their temporal ...
... preferable to moral . The Command gi- ven to the Apostles to preach the Gospel to every Creature , was , I fuppofe , a pofitive Command : The Good intended by it , was the Salvation of Mankind hereafter , as well as their temporal ...
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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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... preferable to another pofitive Duty of flighter Confequence . However that be , I will venture to affure him , that wherever one Duty is preferred to another , it is not becaufe one is moral , and another is po- fitive , but because one ...
... preferable to another pofitive Duty of flighter Confequence . However that be , I will venture to affure him , that wherever one Duty is preferred to another , it is not becaufe one is moral , and another is po- fitive , but because one ...
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... preferable to pofitive : And it does not appear that he has been able to prove his Point . II . I COME in the next Place to Objections drawn from the Nature or Reafon of the Thing . 1. THE firft and principal * , in the Words of ...
... preferable to pofitive : And it does not appear that he has been able to prove his Point . II . I COME in the next Place to Objections drawn from the Nature or Reafon of the Thing . 1. THE firft and principal * , in the Words of ...
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... preferable , as to forming in us Difpofitions pro- per for a heavenly State . Bur it is pleaded * on the other Side , that the Law of Nature is a harder Law to obey than the po- fitive Law of the Sacrament is : And if the Reward be ...
... preferable , as to forming in us Difpofitions pro- per for a heavenly State . Bur it is pleaded * on the other Side , that the Law of Nature is a harder Law to obey than the po- fitive Law of the Sacrament is : And if the Reward be ...
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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.