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... tion to the other , is not founded in the fixed Nature or Reason of Things , or at least not known to be fo ; being confidered only as pre- feribed , and as depending on God's good Plea- fure either to remove or continue it . There may ...
... tion to the other , is not founded in the fixed Nature or Reason of Things , or at least not known to be fo ; being confidered only as pre- feribed , and as depending on God's good Plea- fure either to remove or continue it . There may ...
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... tion of moral and pofitive Precepts , or Duties . DR CLARKE and his Followers , lay it down for a Rule and a Principle , that po- fitive Precepts or Duties are never to be compar'd with moral . I fuppofe , they mean as to their Value ...
... tion of moral and pofitive Precepts , or Duties . DR CLARKE and his Followers , lay it down for a Rule and a Principle , that po- fitive Precepts or Duties are never to be compar'd with moral . I fuppofe , they mean as to their Value ...
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... tion of the Maxim , I will have Mercy and not Sacrifice , are directly contradictory to those which the Remarker infifts upon . To which I answer : That Maxim , I will have Mercy rather than Sacri- James ii . 10 , Anfwer to the Remarks ...
... tion of the Maxim , I will have Mercy and not Sacrifice , are directly contradictory to those which the Remarker infifts upon . To which I answer : That Maxim , I will have Mercy rather than Sacri- James ii . 10 , Anfwer to the Remarks ...
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... tion to throw off the Legal Rites , and to abolish the daily Sacrifice , we should have had more tra- gical Complaints of it from the Prophets , than of any other of their Immoralities , or Abominations But indeed they never durft come ...
... tion to throw off the Legal Rites , and to abolish the daily Sacrifice , we should have had more tra- gical Complaints of it from the Prophets , than of any other of their Immoralities , or Abominations But indeed they never durft come ...
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... tion , by the ingenious Dr. Stebbing , to which I beg leave only to refer , * fince I can fay nothing better , and I have no mind to repeat . Thirdly , As to the Doubt whether Baptifm fhould be con- tinued among Chriftians , first ...
... tion , by the ingenious Dr. Stebbing , to which I beg leave only to refer , * fince I can fay nothing better , and I have no mind to repeat . Thirdly , As to the Doubt whether Baptifm fhould be con- tinued among Chriftians , first ...
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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.