Eight Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: In the Year M DCC XCI. at the Lecture Founded by the Late Rev. John Bampton |
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... must be aware , rea- fon to lament that this is far from being univer- fally the cafe , and on two different accounts . The libertine and worldly man deride , or can- not brook , the notion of facrificing the evidence of their fenfes ...
... must be aware , rea- fon to lament that this is far from being univer- fally the cafe , and on two different accounts . The libertine and worldly man deride , or can- not brook , the notion of facrificing the evidence of their fenfes ...
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... must allow that there are some who exceed others and most probably surpass him , in natural powers of mind , or in the general means of information , or in both . In particular branches of literature it is evident that many must excell ...
... must allow that there are some who exceed others and most probably surpass him , in natural powers of mind , or in the general means of information , or in both . In particular branches of literature it is evident that many must excell ...
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... must be capable of instructing him in fome one point or other . In order to fhew this fully , it may be fufficient to remind him , that , in all pro- bability , every man is born with a capacity and inclination of giving a preference to ...
... must be capable of instructing him in fome one point or other . In order to fhew this fully , it may be fufficient to remind him , that , in all pro- bability , every man is born with a capacity and inclination of giving a preference to ...
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... must either be fuppofed to have conceived a mean plan in intending to create fuch vile and wicked beings , or to have come short of his purpose , or to have fuffered them to fall into fuch objects as are deftitute of all claim to ...
... must either be fuppofed to have conceived a mean plan in intending to create fuch vile and wicked beings , or to have come short of his purpose , or to have fuffered them to fall into fuch objects as are deftitute of all claim to ...
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... must have been given for nothing , or for fo partial a purpose as may be deemed to fall fhort of the benevolent defigns of the Creator of mankind . But advice confifting of general wif- dom or knowledge of truth applied to particular ...
... must have been given for nothing , or for fo partial a purpose as may be deemed to fall fhort of the benevolent defigns of the Creator of mankind . But advice confifting of general wif- dom or knowledge of truth applied to particular ...
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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 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.
Page 102 - Secret things belong unto the Lord our God ; but those things which are revealed belong unto us and our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.