The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. ... A New Edition. By J.B. ..., Том 2J. Johnson and J. Payne; and T. Cadell, 1767 |
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... rectitude . Here a proper diftinction ought to be made between goodness and mercy . Though it is de- monftrably certain , that the Supreme Being is infinite in goodness , we must not imagine he is infinite infinite in mercy . Because we ...
... rectitude . Here a proper diftinction ought to be made between goodness and mercy . Though it is de- monftrably certain , that the Supreme Being is infinite in goodness , we must not imagine he is infinite infinite in mercy . Because we ...
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... rectitude in your mind ; and you will find it equally im- poffible ; the idea of rectitude , as fomewhat real , will still return upon the understanding . Recti- tude is therefore a neceffary attribute of Deity ; and all the Divine ...
... rectitude in your mind ; and you will find it equally im- poffible ; the idea of rectitude , as fomewhat real , will still return upon the understanding . Recti- tude is therefore a neceffary attribute of Deity ; and all the Divine ...
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... rectitude , to produce and communicate happiness . This must be kept in view throughout the whole of the scheme . scheme . When we think of the Creator as lay- 36 OF THE DIGNITY Here is a Deity truly worthy to be adored. ...
... rectitude , to produce and communicate happiness . This must be kept in view throughout the whole of the scheme . scheme . When we think of the Creator as lay- 36 OF THE DIGNITY Here is a Deity truly worthy to be adored. ...
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... rectitude of his own nature . But to return , no creature is , or can be fo formed , as to continue fteddily and uniformly happy , through the whole of its exiftence , at the fame fame time that it is in a state unfuitable to HUMAN ...
... rectitude of his own nature . But to return , no creature is , or can be fo formed , as to continue fteddily and uniformly happy , through the whole of its exiftence , at the fame fame time that it is in a state unfuitable to HUMAN ...
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... rectitude . We cannot imagine infinite Wisdom propofing a particular scheme for every individual , when the end might be gained by a general one . For , to gain various ends by one means , is a proof of wisdom . As , on the contrary ...
... rectitude . We cannot imagine infinite Wisdom propofing a particular scheme for every individual , when the end might be gained by a general one . For , to gain various ends by one means , is a proof of wisdom . As , on the contrary ...
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Сторінка 321 - O LORD, how manifold are Thy works : in wisdom hast Thou made them all ; the earth is full of Thy riches. So is the great and wide sea also : wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Сторінка 321 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Сторінка 321 - BLESS the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain...
Сторінка 322 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.
Сторінка 370 - to the fwift, nor the battle to the flrong; nor " bread to the wife, nor favour to men of ikill; " but it is the hand of God, that has wroughtall " thefe things. That though the horfe be pre" pared againft the day of battle, fafety is from
Сторінка 369 - Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth...
Сторінка 164 - I must confess I think it is below reasonable creatures to be altogether conversant in such diversions as are merely innocent, and have nothing else to recommend them but that there is no hurt in them. Whether any kind of gaming has even thus much to...
Сторінка 327 - ... and mountains out of their place, and raising the bed of the ocean from the lowest abyss, so as to form a portion of elevated land; all which changes appear to have been effected in the by-past revolutions of our globe, and both events are equally within the power and the control of Him "who rules in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth," whatever physical agents he may choose to select for the accomplishment of his purposes.
Сторінка 71 - Omnipotence, muft fooner or later be crufhed before him. For he does in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, whatever feems to him good, and none can ftay his hand.
Сторінка 437 - I faw in the night vifions, and behold one, like the " SON OF MAN, came with the clouds of heaven, and came to " the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him. " And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, " that all people, nations, and languages mould ferve him.