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... themselves to ( i comply with the Command of their Lord . In " the doing of which , they are still always to " remember , that This and all other pofitive Infti- " tutions « * Expofition , p . 281 , 282 tutions have the Nature only of ...
... themselves to ( i comply with the Command of their Lord . In " the doing of which , they are still always to " remember , that This and all other pofitive Infti- " tutions « * Expofition , p . 281 , 282 tutions have the Nature only of ...
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... themselves in outward Acts ; as when we speak of feeding the Hungry , cloathing the Naked , relieving the Oppreffed , or any Thing of the like kind . Now the Reader may please to obferve , that when Dr. Clarke op poses pofitive to moral ...
... themselves in outward Acts ; as when we speak of feeding the Hungry , cloathing the Naked , relieving the Oppreffed , or any Thing of the like kind . Now the Reader may please to obferve , that when Dr. Clarke op poses pofitive to moral ...
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... themselves in bearing Burthens , & c . do many Thing's materially good , tending to the general Good of Mankind : But it is the in- ward Principle , the chufing what is materially good , in Conformity to a divine Law , this is what in ...
... themselves in bearing Burthens , & c . do many Thing's materially good , tending to the general Good of Mankind : But it is the in- ward Principle , the chufing what is materially good , in Conformity to a divine Law , this is what in ...
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... themselves , than by being merely good moral Men ? 2. If the positive Precept aims at fome Bene- fit of a higher kind , or more diffusive , or more lafting ; then alfo Obedience to fuch pofitive Pre- cept is preferable to moral . The ...
... themselves , than by being merely good moral Men ? 2. If the positive Precept aims at fome Bene- fit of a higher kind , or more diffusive , or more lafting ; then alfo Obedience to fuch pofitive Pre- cept is preferable to moral . The ...
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... themselves depend upon it , and can ne- ver subsist without it . So that any Pretence of fetting up Moral Virtues in Oppofition to Reli- gious Duties , is undermining Morality instead of ferving it , and is defeating the very End which ...
... themselves depend upon it , and can ne- ver subsist without it . So that any Pretence of fetting up Moral Virtues in Oppofition to Reli- gious Duties , is undermining Morality instead of ferving it , and is defeating the very End which ...
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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.