Christian Ethics; Or, Moral Philosophy on the Principles of Divine RevelationJackson and Walford, 1834 - 446 pàgines |
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Pàgina 39
... consists its present depravity . So far from the principles having undergone any change , it is from their very permanence and immutability that this depravity continues to be ascertained and measured . Had there been a change in the ...
... consists its present depravity . So far from the principles having undergone any change , it is from their very permanence and immutability that this depravity continues to be ascertained and measured . Had there been a change in the ...
Pàgina 47
... consists , their connexion , or joint action . It is thus we understand the " office and use of a watch , a plant , an eye , " or a hand . It is the same with a living " creature of the rational or brute kind . " Therefore , to ...
... consists , their connexion , or joint action . It is thus we understand the " office and use of a watch , a plant , an eye , " or a hand . It is the same with a living " creature of the rational or brute kind . " Therefore , to ...
Pàgina 54
... virtue as consisting in the mean between two extremes ; I need hardly say , it laid down a position singularly vague , -a position which , in terms of apparent definiteness , actually defined _LECT . II 54 RADICAL ERROR.
... virtue as consisting in the mean between two extremes ; I need hardly say , it laid down a position singularly vague , -a position which , in terms of apparent definiteness , actually defined _LECT . II 54 RADICAL ERROR.
Pàgina 59
... consists in " living according to nature , ” there appears to be quite as great ana- logy to the second of these three schemes , that of essential differences , or eternal fitnesses , as there is to the last . But at all events , in ...
... consists in " living according to nature , ” there appears to be quite as great ana- logy to the second of these three schemes , that of essential differences , or eternal fitnesses , as there is to the last . But at all events , in ...
Pàgina 61
... consists in living according to a nature which , in its radical principles and innate tendencies , is in a state of opposition to virtue ; to virtue in its essential elementary principle - the love of God ? may have occasion to revert ...
... consists in living according to a nature which , in its radical principles and innate tendencies , is in a state of opposition to virtue ; to virtue in its essential elementary principle - the love of God ? may have occasion to revert ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 361 - Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them : for ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light...
Pàgina 13 - God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth...
Pàgina 171 - For as many as have sinned without Law shall also perish without Law: and as many as have sinned in the Law shall be judged by the Law...
Pàgina 376 - ... their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle their dictator, as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did, out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning, which are extant in their books.
Pàgina 404 - And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry...
Pàgina 335 - For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Pàgina 126 - God, but the doers of the law shall be justified : for when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Pàgina 133 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Pàgina 375 - ... idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality.
Pàgina 118 - Somewhat further must be brought in to give us an adequate notion of it; namely, that one of those principles of action, conscience or reflection, compared with the rest as they all stand together in the nature of man, plainly bears upon it marks of authority over all the rest, and claims the absolute direction of them all, to allow or forbid their gratification: a disapprobation of reflection being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension.