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Pagina 3
... appearing good or evil to our minds , according to a certain invaria- ble standard planted in them . Our highest enjoyment arises from self - approbation , or a consciousness of intire moral affection , and a course of morally good ...
... appearing good or evil to our minds , according to a certain invaria- ble standard planted in them . Our highest enjoyment arises from self - approbation , or a consciousness of intire moral affection , and a course of morally good ...
Pagina 8
... appear to our minds more amiable , more worthy of an abfolutely perfect Being , there is none more juftly attributed to the Deity , if we judge by the appearances of defign and final caufes in the conftitution of things , and the ...
... appear to our minds more amiable , more worthy of an abfolutely perfect Being , there is none more juftly attributed to the Deity , if we judge by the appearances of defign and final caufes in the conftitution of things , and the ...
Pagina 9
... appear . They are fometimes cool- ed by the influence of other affections and paffions in our nature ; and fometimes attend- ed with perturbation ; from which and all other infirmities the abfolutely perfect divine nature is wholly free ...
... appear . They are fometimes cool- ed by the influence of other affections and paffions in our nature ; and fometimes attend- ed with perturbation ; from which and all other infirmities the abfolutely perfect divine nature is wholly free ...
Pagina 12
... appear to be below the transcendent excellence and perfection of the fupreme Be- ing : They ferve only the purposes of a weak condition : They convey the notices of things , ( and by the frame of our bodily organs they must be very ...
... appear to be below the transcendent excellence and perfection of the fupreme Be- ing : They ferve only the purposes of a weak condition : They convey the notices of things , ( and by the frame of our bodily organs they must be very ...
Pagina 13
... appear to have an abfolute excellence in it , worthy of the most perfect nature : Nay , we cannot look upon any Agent as truly amiable without it . It does not fuppofe the least de- gree of imperfection ; nor is to be conceiv'd as ...
... appear to have an abfolute excellence in it , worthy of the most perfect nature : Nay , we cannot look upon any Agent as truly amiable without it . It does not fuppofe the least de- gree of imperfection ; nor is to be conceiv'd as ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 408 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Pagina 374 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Pagina 241 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Pagina 3 - him from the creation of the world are clearly feen, " being underftood by the things that are made, even " his eternal power and godhead...
Pagina 241 - LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Pagina 238 - Lo, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him?
Pagina 207 - But he that knew not. and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Pagina 102 - See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Pagina 346 - God hath taken care of all our good, and if godliness be profitable to all things and hath the promise of the life that now is, and that which is to come...
Pagina 172 - Thou fhalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy mind ; this is the firft and great commandment : and the fecond is like unto it, Thou fhalt love thy neighbour as thyfelf ; on thefe two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.