A Body of Divinity...: With Notes, Original and Selected, Volume 1W.W. Woodward, 1814 |
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... less mistakes , and improve what comes with sufficient evidence to the best purposes . The work indeed , is large , but the vast variety of subjects will render it more tolerable ; the form in which it appears is somewhat differing from ...
... less mistakes , and improve what comes with sufficient evidence to the best purposes . The work indeed , is large , but the vast variety of subjects will render it more tolerable ; the form in which it appears is somewhat differing from ...
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... less important actions of life should be subservient to those that are of greater consequence , in which the honour of God and religion is more immediately concerned ; in which sense we may be said to glorify him therein . Thus having ...
... less important actions of life should be subservient to those that are of greater consequence , in which the honour of God and religion is more immediately concerned ; in which sense we may be said to glorify him therein . Thus having ...
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... less , in proportion to their natural capacity , as they make advances in the knowledge of other things . Now for the proof of the being of a God from the light of nature , let the following propositions be considered in their ...
... less , in proportion to their natural capacity , as they make advances in the knowledge of other things . Now for the proof of the being of a God from the light of nature , let the following propositions be considered in their ...
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... less neces- sary , where the only question is , whether it were made with any design at all . III Nor , thirdly , would it bring any uncertainty into the argument , if there were a few parts of the watch , concerning which we could not ...
... less neces- sary , where the only question is , whether it were made with any design at all . III Nor , thirdly , would it bring any uncertainty into the argument , if there were a few parts of the watch , concerning which we could not ...
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... less surprised to be informed , that the watch in his hand was nothing more than the result of the laws of metallic nature . It is a perversion of language to assign any law , as the efficient , operative , cause of any thing . A law ...
... less surprised to be informed , that the watch in his hand was nothing more than the result of the laws of metallic nature . It is a perversion of language to assign any law , as the efficient , operative , cause of any thing . A law ...
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Page 367 - All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Page 338 - Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
Page 36 - He shall not be afraid of evil tidings : his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.
Page 126 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 336 - Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
Page 267 - For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son.
Page 504 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 304 - I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. " Surely," shall one say, " in the Lord have I righteousness and strength :" even to him shall men come ; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Page 530 - As the godly consideration of predestination and our Election in Christ is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ mortifying the works of the flesh and their earthly members and drawing up' their mind to high and heavenly things...
Page 42 - For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.