The rule of conscienceOgle, Duncan and Company, 1822 |
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... degrees , he shall think these counsels individually necessary , hath abused his conscience , laid a snare for others , put fetters upon Christian liberty , and is passed into that state of doing it , that though he entered VOL . XII ...
... degrees , he shall think these counsels individually necessary , hath abused his conscience , laid a snare for others , put fetters upon Christian liberty , and is passed into that state of doing it , that though he entered VOL . XII ...
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... degrees in passion , or by remissness and slackness of action , or by obliquity of inten- tion , or intertexture of some undecency , or weariness , or sensuality , or complacency , and fantastic deliciousness , or something secret , and ...
... degrees in passion , or by remissness and slackness of action , or by obliquity of inten- tion , or intertexture of some undecency , or weariness , or sensuality , or complacency , and fantastic deliciousness , or something secret , and ...
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... degree innocent in which the error is unavoidable ; and if it could be otherwise , then a case might happen , in which ... degrees only , but is useful in the con- ducting some actions of repentance ; and it is to be under- stood to be ...
... degree innocent in which the error is unavoidable ; and if it could be otherwise , then a case might happen , in which ... degrees only , but is useful in the con- ducting some actions of repentance ; and it is to be under- stood to be ...
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... degree of crime , to sin against an erring , and to sin against a right conscience in the same instances . He that omits to hear divine service on a festival , when he hath no reasonable impediment , and he who omits it upon a common ...
... degree of crime , to sin against an erring , and to sin against a right conscience in the same instances . He that omits to hear divine service on a festival , when he hath no reasonable impediment , and he who omits it upon a common ...
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... degrees of probability , but very difficult to find a case against which nothing can be disputed . And therefore , if it happens that a man be better persuaded of his error than of the contrary truth , that truth cannot be chosen wisely ...
... degrees of probability , but very difficult to find a case against which nothing can be disputed . And therefore , if it happens that a man be better persuaded of his error than of the contrary truth , that truth cannot be chosen wisely ...
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Popular passages
Page 499 - 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 371 - 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 286 - The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Page 366 - 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 350 - THY word is a lantern unto my feet : and a light unto my paths.
Page 328 - 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 370 - 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 326 - There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband ; for her may he be defiled.
Page 370 - 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 294 - But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.