The rule of conscienceOgle, Duncan and Company, 1822 - Theology |
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... truth are seldom admitted to plead ; or if they are , yet they cannot prevail . Impedit ira animum , ne possit cernere verum . But these are no otherwise causes of an erroneous conscience , but as they are causes of ignorance , or ...
... truth are seldom admitted to plead ; or if they are , yet they cannot prevail . Impedit ira animum , ne possit cernere verum . But these are no otherwise causes of an erroneous conscience , but as they are causes of ignorance , or ...
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... truth , which whether it be culpable or inculpable , and at what gate it enters , is of another disqui- sition , and shall be reserved to its proper place . RULE II . An erroneous Conscience binds us to Obedience , but not so as a right ...
... truth , which whether it be culpable or inculpable , and at what gate it enters , is of another disqui- sition , and shall be reserved to its proper place . RULE II . An erroneous Conscience binds us to Obedience , but not so as a right ...
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... truth is always good ; but if by the conscience we can be bound to follow error , and that in that case it is not good to follow truth ; that is , if a good may become evil by the sentence of an erring conscience , and so great an evil ...
... truth is always good ; but if by the conscience we can be bound to follow error , and that in that case it is not good to follow truth ; that is , if a good may become evil by the sentence of an erring conscience , and so great an evil ...
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... truth might be made more useful and evi- dent ; and divers collateral things incident to the main question might be spoken of ; and those arguments remain valid which I brought for the affirmative in the first and second paragraphs of ...
... truth might be made more useful and evi- dent ; and divers collateral things incident to the main question might be spoken of ; and those arguments remain valid which I brought for the affirmative in the first and second paragraphs of ...
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... truth , for truth's sake we hug and entertain the error . So here . The law of God is not despised , much less evacuated by following the dictate of conscience , because it is for the sake of God's law that this conscience is followed ...
... truth , for truth's sake we hug and entertain the error . So here . The law of God is not despised , much less evacuated by following the dictate of conscience , because it is for the sake of God's law that this conscience is followed ...
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Page 361 - 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 360 - 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 282 - The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Page 341 - THY word is a lantern unto my feet : and a light unto my paths.
Page 351 - I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt : open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Page 324 - 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 360 - To whom then will ye liken GOD ? or what likeness will ye compare unto Him ? The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
Page 289 - 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 489 - 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 privatorum furtorum, in nervo atque in compedibus aetatem agunt, fures publici, in auro atque in purpura;