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... counsel of his , it was impossible for him to have descended to any work of crea- tion ; but he should have enjoyed the blessed and individual society of three persons in Godhead only for ever . ' " " This point I have heard some ...
... counsel of his , it was impossible for him to have descended to any work of crea- tion ; but he should have enjoyed the blessed and individual society of three persons in Godhead only for ever . ' " " This point I have heard some ...
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... counsel , whereas faith is not due to your affirmation . A feeling Christian will express in his words a character of zeal or love : although we are not to contend coldly about things which we hold dear ( a ) Impropriety of wit in ...
... counsel , whereas faith is not due to your affirmation . A feeling Christian will express in his words a character of zeal or love : although we are not to contend coldly about things which we hold dear ( a ) Impropriety of wit in ...
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... counsel of his , it was impossible for him to have descended to any work of creation ; but he should have enjoyed the blessed and indi- vidual society of three persons in Godhead for ever . But that , out of his eternal and infinite ...
... counsel of his , it was impossible for him to have descended to any work of creation ; but he should have enjoyed the blessed and indi- vidual society of three persons in Godhead for ever . But that , out of his eternal and infinite ...
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Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu. eternal counsel , that one person of the Godhead should be united to one nature , and to one particu- lar of his ... counsel he condescended of his own good pleasure , and accord- ing A CONFESSION OF FAITH . 11.
Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu. eternal counsel , that one person of the Godhead should be united to one nature , and to one particu- lar of his ... counsel he condescended of his own good pleasure , and accord- ing A CONFESSION OF FAITH . 11.
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... counsel , touching a Mediator , and the work he purposed to accomplish in him . That God created Spirits , whereof some kept their standing , and others fell he created heaven and earth , and all their armies and generations ; and gave ...
... counsel , touching a Mediator , and the work he purposed to accomplish in him . That God created Spirits , whereof some kept their standing , and others fell he created heaven and earth , and all their armies and generations ; and gave ...
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Page xxvii - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 373 - And it appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void ; and therefore in 8 E 330 ab Thomas Tregor's case on the statutes of W.
Page 136 - Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
Page 8 - This also we humbly and earnestly beg, that human things may not prejudice such as are divine ; neither that from the unlocking of the gates of sense, and the kindling of a greater natural light, anything of incredulity, or intellectual night, may arise in our minds towards divine mysteries.
Page xxxvii - Orpheus theatre ; where all beasts and birds assembled, and forgetting their several appetites, some of prey, some of game, some of quarrel, stood all sociably together listening unto the airs and accords of the harp ; the sound whereof no sooner ceased, or was drowned by some louder noise, but every beast returned to his own nature: wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men ; who are full of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profit, of lust, of revenge, which as long as they give...
Page 4 - I have, though in a despised weed, procured the good of till men. If any have been my enemies, I thought not of them ; neither hath the sun almost set upon my displeasure ; but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Page iv - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion.
Page 296 - there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not...
Page 5 - Earth, heavens, and all these, are nothing to thy mercies. Besides my innumerable sins, I confess, before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but mispent it in things for which I was least fit; so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me...
Page xxxviii - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.