Six Dissertations Upon Different SubjectsRichard Taylor, 1809 - 245 Seiten |
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... motive to virtue , and dissuasive from vice , every direction and guidance in the way of life , wholly proceeds from the same liberality : and that the promise of eternal happiness , as the reward of our imperfect endeavours , is merely ...
... motive to virtue , and dissuasive from vice , every direction and guidance in the way of life , wholly proceeds from the same liberality : and that the promise of eternal happiness , as the reward of our imperfect endeavours , is merely ...
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... motives and opportunities to do well , which gifts being rejected and abused , are the innocent cause , or the occasion of their greater wickedness , and in this sense they are hardened by the very goodness of God . Besides , in the ...
... motives and opportunities to do well , which gifts being rejected and abused , are the innocent cause , or the occasion of their greater wickedness , and in this sense they are hardened by the very goodness of God . Besides , in the ...
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... motives which produce it are corrupted than that they are honest . ' According then to the dictates of reason , if we know that a man hath done an action , and are igno- rant of his motive and intent , we should judge it to be far more ...
... motives which produce it are corrupted than that they are honest . ' According then to the dictates of reason , if we know that a man hath done an action , and are igno- rant of his motive and intent , we should judge it to be far more ...
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... motives . Let us see then what motives he has to good and to evil . His motives to good are many in number ; they are these : " Reason , which approves what is right and condemns what is wrong ; so that , when a man doth amiss , he ...
... motives . Let us see then what motives he has to good and to evil . His motives to good are many in number ; they are these : " Reason , which approves what is right and condemns what is wrong ; so that , when a man doth amiss , he ...
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... motives men have to commit evil . It happens not unfrequently that virtue consists in undergoing present inconvenience , whilst the pleasure that it yields is more remote and follows at a distance ; and that vice brings immediate ...
... motives men have to commit evil . It happens not unfrequently that virtue consists in undergoing present inconvenience , whilst the pleasure that it yields is more remote and follows at a distance ; and that vice brings immediate ...
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Seite 201 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Seite 30 - Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding : Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness ; And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
Seite 116 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not : if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only...
Seite 110 - To what purpose is this waste ? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman ? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you ; but me ye have not always.
Seite 238 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; They hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; And the servant is free from his master.
Seite 31 - 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.
Seite 132 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Seite 12 - For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Seite 136 - But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Seite 11 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.