Eight Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year MDCCXCI.: At the Lecture Founded by the Late Rev. John Bampton, M.A. Canon of SalisburyJ. Fletcher, D. Prince and J. Cooke, and R. Bliss; and by Rivington and Sons, and T. Payne, London., 1791 - Faith - 242 pages |
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... virtue , we shall be led to acknowledge that there is ample ground for confidence in the Veracity of human teftimony . Whoever shall decide otherwise , will maintain an opinion un- worthy of God in his creation and moral go- vernment of ...
... virtue , we shall be led to acknowledge that there is ample ground for confidence in the Veracity of human teftimony . Whoever shall decide otherwise , will maintain an opinion un- worthy of God in his creation and moral go- vernment of ...
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... virtue and vice , the differences likely to be entertained on many points by per- fons differently circumftanced , and at different times , or in different countries , be comprehended in the account of difficulties , how much lefs ...
... virtue and vice , the differences likely to be entertained on many points by per- fons differently circumftanced , and at different times , or in different countries , be comprehended in the account of difficulties , how much lefs ...
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... virtue and deformity of vice , but to prove fatisfactorily that the first is indeed a juft and true fyftem , really fuitable to our general nature and the conftitution of things around us , and calculated to effect our happiness . But ...
... virtue and deformity of vice , but to prove fatisfactorily that the first is indeed a juft and true fyftem , really fuitable to our general nature and the conftitution of things around us , and calculated to effect our happiness . But ...
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... virtue , even by their interefts and defires , he does not rob himfelf of the ad- vantages afforded to difcern how far they are intitled to his confidence , by the blind dictate of paffion , or the confused fuggeftions of his un ...
... virtue , even by their interefts and defires , he does not rob himfelf of the ad- vantages afforded to difcern how far they are intitled to his confidence , by the blind dictate of paffion , or the confused fuggeftions of his un ...
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... Virtue , by its effect on the mind , renders a man fo well qualified for such a task , that with due care he will find himself able , notwithstand- ing the depravity that abounds in the world and his own imperfections , to accomplish it ...
... Virtue , by its effect on the mind , renders a man fo well qualified for such a task , that with due care he will find himself able , notwithstand- ing the depravity that abounds in the world and his own imperfections , to accomplish it ...
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Page 172 - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 146 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Page 135 - It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Page 133 - law of God after the inward man. But I fee another *' law in my members, warring againft the law of my " mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, * which is in my members.
Page 124 - I might shew My power in thee, and that My Name might be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth.
Page 68 - If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.