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Page xxiv
... happiness of knowing , or even of seeing , but from whose writings I have received the greatest bene- fit and illumination , and which I have reason to be thank- ful to Providence for having early thrown in my way , I have adventured ...
... happiness of knowing , or even of seeing , but from whose writings I have received the greatest bene- fit and illumination , and which I have reason to be thank- ful to Providence for having early thrown in my way , I have adventured ...
Page xxvi
... happiness , to conform to it in all situations and events . Human nature is not simple and uniform , but made up of several parts ; and we can have no just idea of it as a system or constitution , unless we take into our view the ...
... happiness , to conform to it in all situations and events . Human nature is not simple and uniform , but made up of several parts ; and we can have no just idea of it as a system or constitution , unless we take into our view the ...
Page xxviii
... happiness , vice and misery , whose ideas are now so closely connect- ed , shall be indissolubly united , and the divine govern- ment be found to correspond in the most exact propor- tion to the nature he has given us . Lastly , this ...
... happiness , vice and misery , whose ideas are now so closely connect- ed , shall be indissolubly united , and the divine govern- ment be found to correspond in the most exact propor- tion to the nature he has given us . Lastly , this ...
Page xxix
... happiness on the whole under his government . * And of this considera- tion our Prelate himself was not unmindful ; as may be collected from many expressions in different parts of his writings , and particularly from the following ...
... happiness on the whole under his government . * And of this considera- tion our Prelate himself was not unmindful ; as may be collected from many expressions in different parts of his writings , and particularly from the following ...
Page xxx
... happiness of others , as that we were made to promote our own ; that it is no just objection to this , that we have dispositions to do evil to others as well as good ; for we have also dis- positions to do evil as well as good to ...
... happiness of others , as that we were made to promote our own ; that it is no just objection to this , that we have dispositions to do evil to others as well as good ; for we have also dis- positions to do evil as well as good to ...
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Page xxviii - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Page 52 - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Page lix - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 6 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Page 256 - Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for. See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.
Page 51 - Because I have called, and ye refused ; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded : but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 335 - And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
Page 234 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into.
Page 256 - For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Page 235 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all...