Sermons on Several Subjects, Volume 1 |
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... thoughts , as it were , step by step towards the important conclufion : Firft fhewing you , for method's fake , that there is a God who formerly created the world , and who now exer- cifes a providence over it . When this is seen , it ...
... thoughts , as it were , step by step towards the important conclufion : Firft fhewing you , for method's fake , that there is a God who formerly created the world , and who now exer- cifes a providence over it . When this is seen , it ...
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... thought philofophers in ours , feem willing to attribute the first pro- duction of men to chance . They fuppofe that there always was matter and motion in the world , and that these two once upon a time , in a lucky feason , by a ...
... thought philofophers in ours , feem willing to attribute the first pro- duction of men to chance . They fuppofe that there always was matter and motion in the world , and that these two once upon a time , in a lucky feason , by a ...
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... thought : for put wood , or stone , or any other matter that we find in the world into ever fo much motion , and you will never produce thought out of it . He must be a more able artificer than we have ever yet feen , who can make any ...
... thought : for put wood , or stone , or any other matter that we find in the world into ever fo much motion , and you will never produce thought out of it . He must be a more able artificer than we have ever yet feen , who can make any ...
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... thought the plaineft to be understood , fittest to convince , and the easiest to be remembered ; I proceed now one step farther in the design which I then propofed , and fhall endeavour to fhew , that God is not an inactive , incurious ...
... thought the plaineft to be understood , fittest to convince , and the easiest to be remembered ; I proceed now one step farther in the design which I then propofed , and fhall endeavour to fhew , that God is not an inactive , incurious ...
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... thought very defirous of excluding providence from the management of human affairs . After all , there remains one more argu- ment for a providence , which from the prin- ciples of reafon feems very strong and con- clufive . If God ...
... thought very defirous of excluding providence from the management of human affairs . After all , there remains one more argu- ment for a providence , which from the prin- ciples of reafon feems very strong and con- clufive . If God ...
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Page 291 - Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins : And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Page 212 - God ; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Page 206 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin : but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 180 - God after the inward man, yet that there is another law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin, which is in his members.
Page 362 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.
Page 1 - him from the creation of the world are clearly feen, " being underftood by the things that are made, even " his eternal power and godhead...
Page 170 - I find then a law, that when I would ** do good, evil is prefent with me : for I delight in the " law of God after the inward man.
Page 172 - And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.