The Whole Works of the Rev. W. Bates, Volume 1James Black, 1815 - Presbyterianism |
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... understanding , to discover what is the most excellent good , what the most pernicious evil , and by that discovery moves the will to pursue the one , and fly from the other , and so descends to work upon the affections and senses ...
... understanding , to discover what is the most excellent good , what the most pernicious evil , and by that discovery moves the will to pursue the one , and fly from the other , and so descends to work upon the affections and senses ...
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... understandings . And those are , I. The visible frame of the world , and the numerous natures in it , all modelled by this supreme rule , the good of the whole . II . The usual and the extraordinary works of providence to- wards men ...
... understandings . And those are , I. The visible frame of the world , and the numerous natures in it , all modelled by this supreme rule , the good of the whole . II . The usual and the extraordinary works of providence to- wards men ...
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... constant and regular actings , that an understanding above man's , who often fails in his designs , impresed their unerring instincts , and directs their motions . CHAP . III . The body of man formed with CHAP . II . 13 OF GOD .
... constant and regular actings , that an understanding above man's , who often fails in his designs , impresed their unerring instincts , and directs their motions . CHAP . III . The body of man formed with CHAP . II . 13 OF GOD .
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... understanding and will , whereby he makes a judgment and choice of things in order to his happiness , declare it to be the living image and glory of a most wise and voluntary agent . The admirable composition of two things so ...
... understanding and will , whereby he makes a judgment and choice of things in order to his happiness , declare it to be the living image and glory of a most wise and voluntary agent . The admirable composition of two things so ...
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... understanding ? Who fixed the foundations of the earth ? Who laid the beautiful pavement we tread on ? Who divided and adorned the chambers of the spheres ? Who opened the windows to the light in the east ? Who encompassed it with the ...
... understanding ? Who fixed the foundations of the earth ? Who laid the beautiful pavement we tread on ? Who divided and adorned the chambers of the spheres ? Who opened the windows to the light in the east ? Who encompassed it with the ...
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Page 484 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 113 - And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord ; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord : for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Page 150 - Let the people praise thee, O God ; let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
Page 476 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 151 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 536 - Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.
Page 376 - If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but for the sins of the whole world,
Page 184 - When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Page 483 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 47 - Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made ; well : but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace ; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands...