Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church, Volume 2Martin & Wotherspoon, 1770 - Sermons, English |
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... rule or measure of religion , or defigned as fuch by God , who is too wife and too good to give laws to the world , which can be of no ufe to them , but to perplex and con- found their understandings . The fecond is with refpect to ...
... rule or measure of religion , or defigned as fuch by God , who is too wife and too good to give laws to the world , which can be of no ufe to them , but to perplex and con- found their understandings . The fecond is with refpect to ...
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... rule of our actions ; and how is this end to be attain- ed , whilst we continue ignorant of the meaning of the lawgiver ? Men may blunder , and make dark laws , and fo mifs the fcope they aimed at ; and the wonder is not great but how ...
... rule of our actions ; and how is this end to be attain- ed , whilst we continue ignorant of the meaning of the lawgiver ? Men may blunder , and make dark laws , and fo mifs the fcope they aimed at ; and the wonder is not great but how ...
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... rules of duty , which do not re- gard this or that particular cafe , but were in- tended for the ufe of the whole world , and are to continue to the end of it . And if there be a clear law , and clearly expreffed , in the world , this ...
... rules of duty , which do not re- gard this or that particular cafe , but were in- tended for the ufe of the whole world , and are to continue to the end of it . And if there be a clear law , and clearly expreffed , in the world , this ...
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... rules and principles of religion to themselves out of places of which they are . perfectly ignorant : and how can this be avoided ? - In the first place , it is at every man's peril if he makes any rule to himself , contrary to the ...
... rules and principles of religion to themselves out of places of which they are . perfectly ignorant : and how can this be avoided ? - In the first place , it is at every man's peril if he makes any rule to himself , contrary to the ...
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... rule , will be his condemnation . But plain places are not equally plain to all capacities , and therefore even in this there may be a latitude ; a latitude which we cannot deter- mine , but which God , who is to be the judge , both can ...
... rule , will be his condemnation . But plain places are not equally plain to all capacities , and therefore even in this there may be a latitude ; a latitude which we cannot deter- mine , but which God , who is to be the judge , both can ...
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