Discourses Concerning the Being and Natural Perfections of God, Volumen1H. Whitridge, 1757 |
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... important in- quiries , which the leaft felf - reflection will fhew to be every way worthy of men . Whe- ther our inquiries will rationally end in reli- gion , founded on the belief of a Deity , is what I am now to confider . This ...
... important in- quiries , which the leaft felf - reflection will fhew to be every way worthy of men . Whe- ther our inquiries will rationally end in reli- gion , founded on the belief of a Deity , is what I am now to confider . This ...
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... importance . But in an inquiry concerning the origin of things , to apply chance as a kind of hypothesis to folve the appearances of nature , and account for the order of the world , is evidently ab- furd . For the word fo apply'd , can ...
... importance . But in an inquiry concerning the origin of things , to apply chance as a kind of hypothesis to folve the appearances of nature , and account for the order of the world , is evidently ab- furd . For the word fo apply'd , can ...
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... important and very com- mon appearances ; but fome of their effential principles have been demonftrated to be falfe . Especially in the point before us , their schemes are most remarkably defeated ; for they have never been able to give ...
... important and very com- mon appearances ; but fome of their effential principles have been demonftrated to be falfe . Especially in the point before us , their schemes are most remarkably defeated ; for they have never been able to give ...
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... importance to the purposes of our being , the objects of strong affection , and a confci- ousness of them yields the most solid and sub- ftantial pleasure to the foul . We reason upon them as clearly , perceive truths concerning them ...
... importance to the purposes of our being , the objects of strong affection , and a confci- ousness of them yields the most solid and sub- ftantial pleasure to the foul . We reason upon them as clearly , perceive truths concerning them ...
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... important reality , and the ideas of them in the eternal mind are their original archetypes . First , Abstract Natures or Effences are re- prefented by fome as the mere creatures of the human understanding , taking occafion from the ...
... important reality , and the ideas of them in the eternal mind are their original archetypes . First , Abstract Natures or Effences are re- prefented by fome as the mere creatures of the human understanding , taking occafion from the ...
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Página 34 - Praise ye him sun and moon : praise him all ye stars of light. Praise him ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens ; let them praise the name of the Lord ; for he commanded, and they were created.
Página 34 - Both young men, and maidens ; old men, and children : Let them praise the name of the LORD : for his name alone is excellent ; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Página 34 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl...
Página 214 - And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them which kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Página 259 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Página 141 - When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hands ', to tread my courts...
Página 220 - 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.
Página 133 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Página 262 - The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.