A Careful and Strict Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will: Which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame |
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... Truth , and are not careful whether they think exactly as Arminius did ; yea , that in fome Things they actually differ from him . This Practice is alfo efteemed actually inju- rious on this Account , that it is fuppofed na- turally to ...
... Truth , and are not careful whether they think exactly as Arminius did ; yea , that in fome Things they actually differ from him . This Practice is alfo efteemed actually inju- rious on this Account , that it is fuppofed na- turally to ...
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... Truth , that I may have much of that Spirit which Chrift promised his Difciples , which guides into all Truth ; and that the bleffed and powerful Influences of this Spirit would make Truth victorious in the World . A Ge- A General TABLE ...
... Truth , that I may have much of that Spirit which Chrift promised his Difciples , which guides into all Truth ; and that the bleffed and powerful Influences of this Spirit would make Truth victorious in the World . A Ge- A General TABLE ...
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... Truth of it , I hope , will appear with greater Clearness , before I have finished what I have to fay on the Subject of human Liberty . SECTION III . Concerning the Meaning of the Terms Neceffity , Impoffibility , Inability , & c ; and ...
... Truth of it , I hope , will appear with greater Clearness , before I have finished what I have to fay on the Subject of human Liberty . SECTION III . Concerning the Meaning of the Terms Neceffity , Impoffibility , Inability , & c ; and ...
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... Truths are neceffary in Themfelves : The Subject and Predicate of the Propofition which af- firms them , are perfectly connected of themselves . ( 2. ) The Connection of the Subject and Predi cate of a Propofition , which affirms the ...
... Truths are neceffary in Themfelves : The Subject and Predicate of the Propofition which af- firms them , are perfectly connected of themselves . ( 2. ) The Connection of the Subject and Predi cate of a Propofition , which affirms the ...
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... Truth of certain Propofitions , as foon as the Terms are understood ; as that two and two make four , that black is not white , that two parallel Lines can never cross one another : fo by a natural Neceffity Men's Bodies move down ...
... Truth of certain Propofitions , as foon as the Terms are understood ; as that two and two make four , that black is not white , that two parallel Lines can never cross one another : fo by a natural Neceffity Men's Bodies move down ...
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Page 210 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 196 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles...
Page 203 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, "Lo, I come:" in the volume of the book it is written of me, "I delight to do thy will, O my God." Yea, thy law is within my heart: I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
Page 211 - He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied ; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many : for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because he hath poured out his soul unto death : and he was numbered with the transgressors ; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Page 199 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Page 207 - Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me : that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Page 214 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...
Page 210 - And they sung a new song, saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation...
Page 199 - That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Page 358 - And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them ; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.