A theodicy; or, Vindication of the divine glory, as manifested in the constitution and government of the moral world |
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... merely undertaken to refute the atheist , and vin- dicate the glory of the divine perfections , so it would be a grievous mistake to suppose , that we are about to pry into the holy mysteries of religion . No sound mind is ever ...
... merely undertaken to refute the atheist , and vin- dicate the glory of the divine perfections , so it would be a grievous mistake to suppose , that we are about to pry into the holy mysteries of religion . No sound mind is ever ...
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... merely the greatest and brightest link in the adamantine universal chain of necessity . According to this scheme , as well as to the former , the very idea of moral liberty is inconceivable and impossible . This portentous scheme was ...
... merely the greatest and brightest link in the adamantine universal chain of necessity . According to this scheme , as well as to the former , the very idea of moral liberty is inconceivable and impossible . This portentous scheme was ...
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... merely meant by the freedom of the will , for which he contended , a freedom from external restraint , or co - action , Calvin might well contemptuously exclaim , " Egregious liberty ! " It was reserved for a later period in the history ...
... merely meant by the freedom of the will , for which he contended , a freedom from external restraint , or co - action , Calvin might well contemptuously exclaim , " Egregious liberty ! " It was reserved for a later period in the history ...
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... merely a freedom from co - action , or ex- ternal compulsion . " I conceive liberty , " says he , " to be rightly ... mere freedom from external co - action . See Part ii , ch . iv , sec . 2 . defined in this manner : Liberty is the ...
... merely a freedom from co - action , or ex- ternal compulsion . " I conceive liberty , " says he , " to be rightly ... mere freedom from external co - action . See Part ii , ch . iv , sec . 2 . defined in this manner : Liberty is the ...
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... mere body and local motion ? If there is not , then , indeed , we neither have nor can conceive any higher liberty ... merely suffers a change of place and position , in obedience to the act of the will ; it does not act , nor can it ...
... mere body and local motion ? If there is not , then , indeed , we neither have nor can conceive any higher liberty ... merely suffers a change of place and position , in obedience to the act of the will ; it does not act , nor can it ...
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Page 29 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 166 - Thou art the source and centre of all minds, Their only point of rest, eternal Word ! From thee departing they are lost, and rove At random without honour, hope, or peace. From thee is all that soothes the life of man, His high endeavour, and his glad success, His strength to suffer, and his will to serve.
Page 324 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 29 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 318 - And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
Page 113 - By nature free, not overruled by fate Inextricable, or strict necessity: Our voluntary service he requires, Not our necessitated; such with him Finds no acceptance, nor can find ; for how Can hearts, not free, be tried whether they serve Willing or no, who will but what the'y must By destiny, and can no other choose?
Page 132 - Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have : I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page 30 - The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 204 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell ; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Page 324 - As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath he, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, foreordained all the means thereunto.