| Nathanael Emmons - 1826 - 412 pages
...also endued them with the higher powers of reason and conscience, by which they are capable of judging what is right and what is wrong, what is true and what is false. Men are moral agents. They are capable of acting in the view of moral motives. And this enables them... | |
| 1827 - 604 pages
...applied to religious matters, it implies the existence of an infallible principle of knowledge as to what is right and what is wrong, what is true and what ia erroneous. We acknowledge this right, as residing primarily and infinitely in the Adorable God,... | |
| 1828 - 588 pages
...applied to religious matters, it implies the existence of an infallible principle of knowledge as to what is right and what is wrong, what is true and what is erroneous. We acknowledge this right, as residing primarily and infinitely in the Adorable God, and... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 620 pages
...also endued them with the higher powers of reason and conscience, by which they are capable of judging what is right and what is wrong, what is true and what is false. Men are moral agents. They are capable of acting in the view of moral motives. And this enaVOL. iv.... | |
| 1842 - 538 pages
...powers enabling us to determine what is just and what is unjust — what is good and what is evil — what is right and what is wrong — what is true and what is false. No one possessing such powers can believe that God can ever act unjustly — inflict evil wantonly... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 618 pages
...also endued them with the higher powers of reason and conscience, by which they are capable of judging what is right and what is wrong, what is true and what is false. Men are moral agents. They are capable of acting in the view of moral motives. And this enaVOL. iv.... | |
| John King Lord - 1850 - 436 pages
...to it, the Godlike principle in man, as it has been styled, the unsanctified reason, this tells us what is right, and what is wrong; what is true, and what is false; what the canonical Scripture, and what interpolation or gloss; what God said, and what he did not; what... | |
| 1855 - 892 pages
...all means to obtain correct and rational views concerning duty, conduct, and happiness — concerning what is true and what is false, what is good and what is bad, what is beneficial and what is injurious, what is important and what is frivolous, what is valuable and what... | |
| 1855 - 498 pages
...suppose that the latter assume a right to dictate to the former, to silence their doubts, to decree what is right and what is wrong, what is true and what is false, by a sort of official claim to infallibility. The opinion of a layman they consider to be ipso facto... | |
| 1858 - 436 pages
...word will guard us from all error ancj treachery. In the most unequivocal manner it declares to us what is right, and what is wrong ; what is true, and what is false ; and what in each particular instance we ought to do, or say, or think, according to the will of God.... | |
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