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... kind of duty incumbent upon us toward them . To rectify this mistaken notion is the defign of this treatise , in which I have endeavoured to prove , that as the Love and Mercy of God are over all his works , from the highest rational to ...
... kind of duty incumbent upon us toward them . To rectify this mistaken notion is the defign of this treatise , in which I have endeavoured to prove , that as the Love and Mercy of God are over all his works , from the highest rational to ...
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... kind ; that is , it is fuch as it ought to be . For to fuppose otherwise , is to arraign the divine Wisdom for making it fuch as it is . And as every creature is good in its kind , and did not make itfelf what is B 2 is , is , but is ...
... kind ; that is , it is fuch as it ought to be . For to fuppose otherwise , is to arraign the divine Wisdom for making it fuch as it is . And as every creature is good in its kind , and did not make itfelf what is B 2 is , is , but is ...
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... kind of fuppofitions ; that is , they fup- pose the cafe to be otherwise than it really is . For inftance ; a Rich man is not a Poor man ; yet , the duty plainly arifing from the Pre- cept , C 2 cept , is this , -The man who is now [ 19 ]
... kind of fuppofitions ; that is , they fup- pose the cafe to be otherwise than it really is . For inftance ; a Rich man is not a Poor man ; yet , the duty plainly arifing from the Pre- cept , C 2 cept , is this , -The man who is now [ 19 ]
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... kind , nor defcribe the author of his wrong ; nor , if he could , have they it in their power to redrefs and avenge him . In the case of human cruelty , there are Courts and Laws of Juf- tice in every civilized Society , to which the ...
... kind , nor defcribe the author of his wrong ; nor , if he could , have they it in their power to redrefs and avenge him . In the case of human cruelty , there are Courts and Laws of Juf- tice in every civilized Society , to which the ...
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... we feel ourselves wounded in our pride , we change the fcales ; we drop the confideration of our own dignity , which avails us but little ; and betake us to argu- I ments ments of another kind , which are equally inconclufive , [ 50 ]
... we feel ourselves wounded in our pride , we change the fcales ; we drop the confideration of our own dignity , which avails us but little ; and betake us to argu- I ments ments of another kind , which are equally inconclufive , [ 50 ]
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Page 248 - Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Page 88 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 117 - O give thanks unto the God of heaven : for his mercy endureth for ever.
Page 98 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Page 165 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 168 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Page 87 - And GOD created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and GOD saw that it was good. And GOD blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 184 - The lord then answered him, and said Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead him away to watering?
Page 315 - I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. "And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 310 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark...