Positive Institutions Not to be Compar'd With, Or Preferr'd Before Moral Duties and Virtues, as to Their Rank, Order, Excellency, Intrinsick Value, &c: In Answer to a Treatise, Call'd, The Nature, Obligation, and Efficacy of the Christian Sacraments Consider'd: as Also the Comparative Value of Moral and Positive Duties

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J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane., 1730 - Christian ethics - 71 pages

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Page 25 - But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Page 52 - Jhewed thee, O Man, what is Good: And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do juftly, and to love Mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ? Here is a good Man exprefsly characterized, as diftinct from a difhoneft, and a fuperftiSERM.tious Man.
Page 68 - Unless we eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, we have no life in us h :" and yet God forbid that every man that is not communicated, should die eternally.
Page 56 - make you clean, put away the evil of your " doings from before mine eyes, ceafe to " do evil, learn to do well, feek judgment, " relieve the oppreffed, judge the fatherlefs,
Page 31 - For the poor ye have always with you; but Me ye have not always.
Page 25 - The New Moons and Sabbaths^ the calling of AJJemblies, I cannot away with ; it is Iniquity , even the folemn Meeting, £tc.
Page 52 - Lord, and how myfelf before the high God? Shall I come before him with Burnt-Offerings, with "Calves of a Tear old? Will the Lord be f leafed with thoufands of Rams, or with ten thoufands of Rivers of Oil?
Page 55 - I come before the Lord, and bow my f elf before the high God ? Shall I come before him 'with...
Page 66 - The final results, so largely invisible, superior to all statistics, are with Him who worketh in us and with us, to will and to do of His good pleasure.

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