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Pagina 34
... best and most excellent of all beings , the just object of their highest love and adoration ; none which has a more direct tendency to excite pious and de- vout affections in our minds , to be the foun- dation of true and rational ...
... best and most excellent of all beings , the just object of their highest love and adoration ; none which has a more direct tendency to excite pious and de- vout affections in our minds , to be the foun- dation of true and rational ...
Pagina 49
... best affections , and makes all the rest of the divine attributes appear most lovely . I intend afterwards more particularly to explain this fubject . My prefent design is to prove that God is good . Some have endea- voured to prove all ...
... best affections , and makes all the rest of the divine attributes appear most lovely . I intend afterwards more particularly to explain this fubject . My prefent design is to prove that God is good . Some have endea- voured to prove all ...
Pagina 63
... best of the brutes , II . and are enemies to men . But these are rare instances , and the effects of them do not reach fo far as to be dangerous to any species of liv- ing creatures . The strength of the argument lies in this ; That ...
... best of the brutes , II . and are enemies to men . But these are rare instances , and the effects of them do not reach fo far as to be dangerous to any species of liv- ing creatures . The strength of the argument lies in this ; That ...
Pagina 76
... best that it is poffible for him or any rational being to be in : That it is moft becoming the rational nature : And an intelligent creature altogether deftitute of it , ( if there be any fuch , ) is an object of the utmost horror and ...
... best that it is poffible for him or any rational being to be in : That it is moft becoming the rational nature : And an intelligent creature altogether deftitute of it , ( if there be any fuch , ) is an object of the utmost horror and ...
Pagina 87
... best manner ? That they should be trained up by degrees to a meetness for their nobleft employment , and principal feli- city , which their full - grown faculties are by no means adapted to , without fuch an edu- cation ? That every ...
... best manner ? That they should be trained up by degrees to a meetness for their nobleft employment , and principal feli- city , which their full - grown faculties are by no means adapted to , without fuch an edu- cation ? That every ...
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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.