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The power of God , which is a sufficiency in him to produce great effects , must for ever have been dormant and useless as ... as perfectly that he possessed these attributes , if they had never been exerted or expressed in any effect .
The power of God , which is a sufficiency in him to produce great effects , must for ever have been dormant and useless as ... as perfectly that he possessed these attributes , if they had never been exerted or expressed in any effect .
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I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect . Keeping originality always in view — for he is false to himself who ventures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest- I say to myself , in the ...
I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect . Keeping originality always in view — for he is false to himself who ventures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest- I say to myself , in the ...
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This is a fruit , —that I should not ask for a rash effect from meditations , counsels and the hiving of truths . I should feel it pitiful to demand a result on this town and county , an overt effect on the instant month and year .
This is a fruit , —that I should not ask for a rash effect from meditations , counsels and the hiving of truths . I should feel it pitiful to demand a result on this town and county , an overt effect on the instant month and year .
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The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution | 3 |
Among the parts of a spinning wheel 1 In 11 2136 the poet elaborates | 5 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
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