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... proper here to declare , that I dispose of the residue of my property in the above manner , not from my being carried away by a transient fit of enthusiasm , but from a deliberate , calm , and deep - rooted conviction , that nothing ...
... proper here to declare , that I dispose of the residue of my property in the above manner , not from my being carried away by a transient fit of enthusiasm , but from a deliberate , calm , and deep - rooted conviction , that nothing ...
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... proper exercise of his intelligence and corporeal energies , he is able to foresee the approach of bleak skies and rude winds , and to place himself in safety from their injurious effects . These powers of controlling nature , and of ac ...
... proper exercise of his intelligence and corporeal energies , he is able to foresee the approach of bleak skies and rude winds , and to place himself in safety from their injurious effects . These powers of controlling nature , and of ac ...
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... proper to insti- tute between hem and the other departments of his works . His wisdom and goodness will be found to pervade them , He has bestowed on us intellect to discover his will , and sentiments disposing us to obey it , in ...
... proper to insti- tute between hem and the other departments of his works . His wisdom and goodness will be found to pervade them , He has bestowed on us intellect to discover his will , and sentiments disposing us to obey it , in ...
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... proper formal notion of government . Whether the pleasure or pain which thus follows upon our behavior , be owing to the Author of Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it , or to his having at once contrived and executed ...
... proper formal notion of government . Whether the pleasure or pain which thus follows upon our behavior , be owing to the Author of Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it , or to his having at once contrived and executed ...
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... proper to state , that 1 do not maintain that the world is arranged on the principle of benevolence exclusively : my idea is , that it is consti- tuted in harmony with the whole faculties of man ; the moral sentiments and intellect ...
... proper to state , that 1 do not maintain that the world is arranged on the principle of benevolence exclusively : my idea is , that it is consti- tuted in harmony with the whole faculties of man ; the moral sentiments and intellect ...
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Page 368 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Page 368 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 370 - This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Page 370 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 367 - I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.
Page 366 - The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil : for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Page 369 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Page 31 - ... and misery, but also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel, upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction, this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our being under his government, as declaring by a voice from heaven that if we acted so, he would...
Page 370 - ... drunkenness, revellings, and such like : of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance : against such there is no law.
Page 363 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.