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... least understood , moft fuccessfully propagated in times of ignorance and implicit faith , and lofe ground in more judicious and inquifi- tive ages ; the quite contrary may be faid of the rules of virtue , which , the more narrowly they ...
... least understood , moft fuccessfully propagated in times of ignorance and implicit faith , and lofe ground in more judicious and inquifi- tive ages ; the quite contrary may be faid of the rules of virtue , which , the more narrowly they ...
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... least , he can have but very lame and confufed no- tions of religion and morality , and must proceed upon mean and narrow prin- ciples . Whereas , on the contrary , the good man , in the utmost extent of that character , can't but have ...
... least , he can have but very lame and confufed no- tions of religion and morality , and must proceed upon mean and narrow prin- ciples . Whereas , on the contrary , the good man , in the utmost extent of that character , can't but have ...
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... least , consistent with this ; are only virtuous , so far as they directly promote it ; but are base and deteftable , when they interfere with it . To apply this to the cafe of private friendship . When my love of a friend is ...
... least , consistent with this ; are only virtuous , so far as they directly promote it ; but are base and deteftable , when they interfere with it . To apply this to the cafe of private friendship . When my love of a friend is ...
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... least concerning the fitness of the general rules , by which he governs the world : And therefore , men are over modeft , when they refuse to allow their reason that honour which the great Cre- ator himself has done it ; when they re ...
... least concerning the fitness of the general rules , by which he governs the world : And therefore , men are over modeft , when they refuse to allow their reason that honour which the great Cre- ator himself has done it ; when they re ...
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... least of mercy . But if we believe him to be neceffarily wife , righteous , and good , it will then be his chief glory to exercise an . equal and impartial , but , at the fame time , a gracious providence over all his creatures ; and ...
... least of mercy . But if we believe him to be neceffarily wife , righteous , and good , it will then be his chief glory to exercise an . equal and impartial , but , at the fame time , a gracious providence over all his creatures ; and ...
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Page 184 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Page 118 - Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 322 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Page 121 - Hath not the potter power over the clay; of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Page 24 - Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die : yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Page 161 - ... the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book : and the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
Page 184 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Page 280 - For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ; ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 286 - Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye ; and, behold, a beam if in thine own ey«?