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... speculation — it is thought questioning the spontaneous processes of mind - thought re- turning upon itself , and seeking the nature , authority and criterion of its own laws . A man may have all that Dr. Paley ascribes to him , without ...
... speculation — it is thought questioning the spontaneous processes of mind - thought re- turning upon itself , and seeking the nature , authority and criterion of its own laws . A man may have all that Dr. Paley ascribes to him , without ...
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... speculation . They leave untouched its pe- culiar work . The moral nature , in its phe- nomenal variety and essential unity , still in- vites the researches of the curious ; and the more it is studied , the more conspicuous will appear ...
... speculation . They leave untouched its pe- culiar work . The moral nature , in its phe- nomenal variety and essential unity , still in- vites the researches of the curious ; and the more it is studied , the more conspicuous will appear ...
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... effects which the history of the fall attributes to a single sin upon a nature originally upright . If we were left to conjecture and speculation , we The might suppose that , as a habit is not likely OF THE BIBLE . 45.
... effects which the history of the fall attributes to a single sin upon a nature originally upright . If we were left to conjecture and speculation , we The might suppose that , as a habit is not likely OF THE BIBLE . 45.
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... speculative and practical , proceeds to determine what is the best habit of each . The best habit of anything he de- nominates its virtue , and very justly observes that the virtue of each object is ascertained by its fitness for ...
... speculative and practical , proceeds to determine what is the best habit of each . The best habit of anything he de- nominates its virtue , and very justly observes that the virtue of each object is ascertained by its fitness for ...
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... speculative principles , whose truth must be submitted to the decision of reason , as well as authoritative laws of the conscience , whose precepts we are bound to obey . There must be an exercise of the reflective understanding , in ...
... speculative principles , whose truth must be submitted to the decision of reason , as well as authoritative laws of the conscience , whose precepts we are bound to obey . There must be an exercise of the reflective understanding , in ...
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Page 284 - When he slew them, then they sought him ; and they returned and inquired early after God, and they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Page 172 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 75 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 269 - When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Page 253 - And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
Page 281 - ... remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Page 268 - When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
Page 99 - Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven ? or who shall descend into the deep ? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is the word of faith which we preach, that if thou shall confess with thy mouth the.
Page 244 - A cup of cold water given to a disciple, in the name of a disciple, shall not lose its reward...
Page 33 - Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is "to glorify God and enjoy Him forever".