The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books ..., Band 2J. Johnson and J. Payne, 1767 |
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... Divine wisdom , to answer certain ends . It does not fuit the defign of this work to en- ter into any long difcuffion of knotty points . But I would ask thofe gentlemen , who maintain the above doctrine , Whether the Divine scheme in ...
... Divine wisdom , to answer certain ends . It does not fuit the defign of this work to en- ter into any long difcuffion of knotty points . But I would ask thofe gentlemen , who maintain the above doctrine , Whether the Divine scheme in ...
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... Divine scheme in the natural world , and fee very clearly the wif dom and contrivance , which shine confpicuous in every part of it . I believe nobody ever took it into his head to doubt , whether the inhabitants any other world would ...
... Divine scheme in the natural world , and fee very clearly the wif dom and contrivance , which shine confpicuous in every part of it . I believe nobody ever took it into his head to doubt , whether the inhabitants any other world would ...
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... Divine nature ) an eter- nal , effential , and unchangeable difference in ... Divine attribute of benevolence is , in its own nature , really and effentially ... scheme of be- nevolence , or to wifh innocent beings condemn- ed to mifery ...
... Divine nature ) an eter- nal , effential , and unchangeable difference in ... Divine attribute of benevolence is , in its own nature , really and effentially ... scheme of be- nevolence , or to wifh innocent beings condemn- ed to mifery ...
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... Divine Scheme in Creation . The happiness of conscious Beings , the only End for which they were brought into Existence . Hap- piness , its foundation . Univerfal Concurrence of all Beings with the Divine Scheme abfolutely ne- ceffary ...
... Divine Scheme in Creation . The happiness of conscious Beings , the only End for which they were brought into Existence . Hap- piness , its foundation . Univerfal Concurrence of all Beings with the Divine Scheme abfolutely ne- ceffary ...
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... Divine rectitude . We cannot imagine infinite Wisdom propofing a particular scheme for every individual , when the end might be gained by a general one . For , to gain various ends by one means , is a proof of wisdom . As , on the ...
... Divine rectitude . We cannot imagine infinite Wisdom propofing a particular scheme for every individual , when the end might be gained by a general one . For , to gain various ends by one means , is a proof of wisdom . As , on the ...
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Seite 323 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Seite 323 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Seite 371 - Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth...
Seite 324 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.
Seite 440 - vifions, and behold one, like the SoN oF MAN, " came with the clouds of heaven, and came to ** the antient of days, and they brought him ** near before him.
Seite 166 - I must confess I think it is below reasonable creatures to be altogether conversant in such diversions as are merely innocent, and have nothing else to recommend them, but that there is no hurt in them. Whether any kind of gaming has even thus much to...
Seite 436 - Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled...
Seite 496 - If your treasure be in the world, so is the love of your hearts. And if ye love the world, and the things of the world, the love of God is not in you ; and the love of God is the love of his commandments ; and he that loveth not God's commandments...
Seite 354 - God is the God of the Gentiles, as well as of the Jews; and has concluded them all in unbelief, only that he might have mercy upon all.
Seite 438 - The prediction of Ifaiah is ftill clearer : ch. ix. 6, 7. " unto us a child is born, unto us a fon is " given, and the government fhall be upon his fhoulders ; and his " name fhall be called * Wonderful, Counfellor, the Mighty God, ." the Everlafting Father, the Prince of Peace : of the increafe of " his government and peace there fhall be no end, upon the throne