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... circumstances : And this may cause him to seek a family . And the comfort of society may be originally his last end , in seeking a family . But after he has a family , peace , good order and mutual justice END IN CREATION . 15.
... circumstances : And this may cause him to seek a family . And the comfort of society may be originally his last end , in seeking a family . But after he has a family , peace , good order and mutual justice END IN CREATION . 15.
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... cause , for an agent to intend to attain something he values by means he uses , is the same thing as to seek it by those means . And this is the same as to make that thing his end in those means . Now it being by the supposition what ...
... cause , for an agent to intend to attain something he values by means he uses , is the same thing as to seek it by those means . And this is the same as to make that thing his end in those means . Now it being by the supposition what ...
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... cause of its producing those fruits , as its disposition to communicate itself , or diffuse its sap and life in general . Therefore to speak more strictly according to truth , we may suppose , that a disposition in God , as an original ...
... cause of its producing those fruits , as its disposition to communicate itself , or diffuse its sap and life in general . Therefore to speak more strictly according to truth , we may suppose , that a disposition in God , as an original ...
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... cause him to value and delight in these things : Or rather how a value to these things is implied in his love to himself , or value of that infinite fulness of good that is in himself . Now with regard to the first of the particulars ...
... cause him to value and delight in these things : Or rather how a value to these things is implied in his love to himself , or value of that infinite fulness of good that is in himself . Now with regard to the first of the particulars ...
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... cause an emanation of his glory and fulness , which is prior to the existence of any other being , and is to be considered as the inciting cause of creation , or giving existence to other be- ings , God cannot so properly be said to ...
... cause an emanation of his glory and fulness , which is prior to the existence of any other being , and is to be considered as the inciting cause of creation , or giving existence to other be- ings , God cannot so properly be said to ...
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Page 228 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 394 - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Page 483 - 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 317 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 77 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Page 125 - For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse : for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
Page 232 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to GOD, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Page 71 - ... the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power ; when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Page 95 - Hath not the potter power over the clay; of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Page 288 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.