The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings, Volume 12Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839 - Theology |
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... side , also very great to suffer our conscience to be so misled , that a good action shall become criminal by such mistaking ; so that , besides the departing from our rule , which is equal in both , they have their own superadded evil ...
... side , also very great to suffer our conscience to be so misled , that a good action shall become criminal by such mistaking ; so that , besides the departing from our rule , which is equal in both , they have their own superadded evil ...
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... side he must fall , that he may fall the easier ? To this the rule answers , that his erring conscience must be obeyed rather , because he is persuaded that God speaks there , and is not persuaded that God speaks by his superior . Now ...
... side he must fall , that he may fall the easier ? To this the rule answers , that his erring conscience must be obeyed rather , because he is persuaded that God speaks there , and is not persuaded that God speaks by his superior . Now ...
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... side as he pleases ; because , in all moral things , as dressed with circumstances , it is very easy to find some ... side . When the arguments seem equal , the understanding or conscience cannot determine . It must either be a chance ...
... side as he pleases ; because , in all moral things , as dressed with circumstances , it is very easy to find some ... side . When the arguments seem equal , the understanding or conscience cannot determine . It must either be a chance ...
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... side ; but it is not virtue nor conscience till it be persuaded by something , that is a fit inducement either in the general or in the particular . RULE VIII . The Error of a Conscience is not always to be opened to the erring Person ...
... side ; but it is not virtue nor conscience till it be persuaded by something , that is a fit inducement either in the general or in the particular . RULE VIII . The Error of a Conscience is not always to be opened to the erring Person ...
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... side , and dares not choose , and cannot . But the probable does choose , though it con- siders that in the thing itself there can be no certainty . And from them both it is distinguished by the intervening of the will . For in the sure ...
... side , and dares not choose , and cannot . But the probable does choose , though it con- siders that in the thing itself there can be no certainty . And from them both it is distinguished by the intervening of the will . For in the sure ...
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Page 371 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 370 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 286 - The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Page 287 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : 1 7 Which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 367 - I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Page 328 - And yet indeed she is my sister: she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Page 293 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 499 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Page 204 - Fures, inquit, privatorum furtorum in nervo atque in compedibus aetatem agunt, fures publici in auro atque in purpura.
Page 326 - There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband ; for her may he be defiled.