Prospect: Or, View of the Moral World, Volume 1E. Palmer, 1803 |
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... understanding . Paul calls in to his aid the sovereign , and arbitrary powers of his God - necessitarian philosophers , the irresistible imperiousness of motives upon the faculties and views of human nature . But in every just ...
... understanding . Paul calls in to his aid the sovereign , and arbitrary powers of his God - necessitarian philosophers , the irresistible imperiousness of motives upon the faculties and views of human nature . But in every just ...
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... end of all their schemes is to cheat people into a disuse of their own understandings , and to pitch their eyes and place their affec- tions upon a frail and often a wicked proxy . The night of Holy Thursday in the island of Corfu 36.
... end of all their schemes is to cheat people into a disuse of their own understandings , and to pitch their eyes and place their affec- tions upon a frail and often a wicked proxy . The night of Holy Thursday in the island of Corfu 36.
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... understanding , in regard to sacred and interesting truths , a knowledge of which he could no otherwise obtain . Heaven deigned to descend to earth to instruct a wicked and apostate race of men . The ideas communicated were of a superna ...
... understanding , in regard to sacred and interesting truths , a knowledge of which he could no otherwise obtain . Heaven deigned to descend to earth to instruct a wicked and apostate race of men . The ideas communicated were of a superna ...
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... understanding can form no pos- sible conception . But the account in this first chapter of sacred writ , says , that the earth was , and yet the earth had no form . Now the word was , implies pointedly being or existence - it remains ...
... understanding can form no pos- sible conception . But the account in this first chapter of sacred writ , says , that the earth was , and yet the earth had no form . Now the word was , implies pointedly being or existence - it remains ...
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... hypocrites deceive their own consciences more than the world they are the detestation of the truly good , and men of common understanding laugh at their farcical sanctimoniousnes .. s — in IN the year 1728 , Mr. Latham who had been 54.
... hypocrites deceive their own consciences more than the world they are the detestation of the truly good , and men of common understanding laugh at their farcical sanctimoniousnes .. s — in IN the year 1728 , Mr. Latham who had been 54.
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Page 122 - I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 126 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 149 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 126 - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Page 105 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud : And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 149 - And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Page 132 - THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam; in the day when they were created.
Page 143 - And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Page 97 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 105 - And God said,' This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.