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... everlasting , is as certain as it is that any Thing now exifteth , be- cause otherwise , nothing could ever have come into Being . And indeed none ever was fo abfurd as to deny that fomething mult must have existed from all Eternity ...
... everlasting , is as certain as it is that any Thing now exifteth , be- cause otherwise , nothing could ever have come into Being . And indeed none ever was fo abfurd as to deny that fomething mult must have existed from all Eternity ...
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... everlasting , and so should have continued to everlasting , the fame unvaried State or Appearance of Things , without . Motion or Life , Senfation or Intelligence , none of which originally belong to Mat- ter . But this is contrary to ...
... everlasting , and so should have continued to everlasting , the fame unvaried State or Appearance of Things , without . Motion or Life , Senfation or Intelligence , none of which originally belong to Mat- ter . But this is contrary to ...
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... everlasting . And this Neceffity of Existence , as it cannot be owing to any external Cause , must have its Reafon and Ground in the Nature of the Thing itself . It can therefore be ow- ing to Nothing but to the peculiar Excel- lency ...
... everlasting . And this Neceffity of Existence , as it cannot be owing to any external Cause , must have its Reafon and Ground in the Nature of the Thing itself . It can therefore be ow- ing to Nothing but to the peculiar Excel- lency ...
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... everlasting , the fame that it was from everlasting . It may be farther added , that to be felf- exiftent includeth abfolute Perfection in its Idea . All derivative Beings are limit- ed in one respect or other , and the Reason is plain ...
... everlasting , the fame that it was from everlasting . It may be farther added , that to be felf- exiftent includeth abfolute Perfection in its Idea . All derivative Beings are limit- ed in one respect or other , and the Reason is plain ...
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... everlasting to everlasting thou art God . Pfal . xc . 2. To the fame Purpose that admirable Addrefs of the Pfalmift , Pfal . cii . 25 , 26 , 27. Of old haft thou laid the Foundation of the Earth , and the Hea- vens are the Work of thine ...
... everlasting to everlasting thou art God . Pfal . xc . 2. To the fame Purpose that admirable Addrefs of the Pfalmift , Pfal . cii . 25 , 26 , 27. Of old haft thou laid the Foundation of the Earth , and the Hea- vens are the Work of thine ...
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Page 245 - In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 296 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it ; if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Page 431 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 181 - Hosts, is his name, great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings...
Page 169 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened, and heard it : and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 342 - Lord of lords ; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Page 98 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God...
Page 46 - Remember the former things of old: For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure...
Page 171 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked : who can know it ? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Page 159 - Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.