Sermons Upon the Following Subjects: The Natural Advantages of Men for Attaining to the Knowledge and Practice of Religion ...A. Millar, 1749 |
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... Power of moral Dif- cernment is not utterly perverted and cor- rupted , which it is hardly poffible for it ever to be , who do not fee a Fair , and a Deformed , in the Affections and Actions of Mankind ; a Right , and a Wrong in Life ...
... Power of moral Dif- cernment is not utterly perverted and cor- rupted , which it is hardly poffible for it ever to be , who do not fee a Fair , and a Deformed , in the Affections and Actions of Mankind ; a Right , and a Wrong in Life ...
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... Power , Goodness , and Righteousness , appearing in the Conftitution and Government of the Universe , and acting in Contradiction to the apparent Ends of the divine Admini- stration , is a horrid and odious Object , and neceffarily ...
... Power , Goodness , and Righteousness , appearing in the Conftitution and Government of the Universe , and acting in Contradiction to the apparent Ends of the divine Admini- stration , is a horrid and odious Object , and neceffarily ...
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... Power of Confcience in this Cafe , as to extort from Men a more fubftantial Acknowledgment , than a mere Confeffion in Words , of the effential Difference between Virtue and Vice , in an Exertion of thofe different Af fections , which ...
... Power of Confcience in this Cafe , as to extort from Men a more fubftantial Acknowledgment , than a mere Confeffion in Words , of the effential Difference between Virtue and Vice , in an Exertion of thofe different Af fections , which ...
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... Power of the Pleader and Orator , plainly arises from these moral Perceptions . To these Confiderations , I fhall only add , in the laft Place , that the Truth of the Distinction between moral Good and Evil , and the Reality of our ...
... Power of the Pleader and Orator , plainly arises from these moral Perceptions . To these Confiderations , I fhall only add , in the laft Place , that the Truth of the Distinction between moral Good and Evil , and the Reality of our ...
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... Power we are , and that unless these Injunctions agree with our original Ideas of Righteousness and Goodness , however we may from political Views comply with them , yet it is impoffible to us ever to ap- prove them , or to render a ...
... Power we are , and that unless these Injunctions agree with our original Ideas of Righteousness and Goodness , however we may from political Views comply with them , yet it is impoffible to us ever to ap- prove them , or to render a ...
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Page viii - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Page 179 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page v - make speed, hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it. 20. Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 255 - F ye then be rifen with Chrift, feek thofe things which are above, where Chrift fitteth on the right hand of God.
Page 337 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 221 - But the wifdom that is from above, is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be entreated, full of mercy and good, fruits, without partiality and without hypocrify.
Page 339 - have given you an example, that ye fhould " do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, .*' I fay unto you, The fervant is not greater ." than his lord ; neither he, that is fent, ." greater than he that fent him. If ye know ." thefe things, happy are ye, if ye do them :
Page 125 - He that planted the ear, jhall he not hear? He that formed the eye jhall he not fee ? \ o.
Page 358 - Therefore all things whatfoever ye would that men fhould do to you, do ye even fo to them : for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 134 - Lord God Almighty ; jujl and true are thy Ways, thou King of Saints. Who jhall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy Name ? for thou only art Holy, Rev.