The Works of the Learned and Reverend John Scott, D.D., Sometime Rector of St. Giles's in the Fields: I-VIClarendon Press, 1826 |
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... inclination to so- ciety , and from the nature and condition of human society , there arises a necessity of five virtues to our everlasting hap- piness , 128. first , charity , 130. secondly , justice , 139. thirdly , peaceableness ...
... inclination to so- ciety , and from the nature and condition of human society , there arises a necessity of five virtues to our everlasting hap- piness , 128. first , charity , 130. secondly , justice , 139. thirdly , peaceableness ...
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... inclination to truth : yet when we go from this world , and leave these causes behind us , which give such a check to its appetite , doubtless its hunger after knowledge will immediately revive , and there will be no possibility of ever ...
... inclination to truth : yet when we go from this world , and leave these causes behind us , which give such a check to its appetite , doubtless its hunger after knowledge will immediately revive , and there will be no possibility of ever ...
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... inclination . And now , by this time , I think it is clear enough , that the main and principal part of the heaven of a man , considered as a reasonable creature , consists in knowing and choosing of God . But besides this , there are ...
... inclination . And now , by this time , I think it is clear enough , that the main and principal part of the heaven of a man , considered as a reasonable creature , consists in knowing and choosing of God . But besides this , there are ...
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... inclination that is in us , is a remove from heaven , a descent from that perfection of virtue wherein the heavenly ... inclinations , and inveterate , sinful habits ; when by a long series of wicked actions , they have raised and blown ...
... inclination that is in us , is a remove from heaven , a descent from that perfection of virtue wherein the heavenly ... inclinations , and inveterate , sinful habits ; when by a long series of wicked actions , they have raised and blown ...
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... inclination , that it goes against the very grain of their nature , and they would much rather return to their vicious courses , if they were not chased and pursued by the terrors of an awakened CHAP . II . The means in general . 29.
... inclination , that it goes against the very grain of their nature , and they would much rather return to their vicious courses , if they were not chased and pursued by the terrors of an awakened CHAP . II . The means in general . 29.
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Page 469 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 328 - If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind...
Page 469 - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me ? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts ; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
Page 471 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do well. Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 259 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Page 367 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Page 474 - And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 474 - God; who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 473 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave, the other undone.
Page 234 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give an account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief.