The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... present pleas- ure to a future advantage , which he judges will be greater when it comes ; then a lesser present pleasure appears more agreeable to him than a greater advantage at a distance . If , on the contrary , a future advantage ...
... present pleas- ure to a future advantage , which he judges will be greater when it comes ; then a lesser present pleasure appears more agreeable to him than a greater advantage at a distance . If , on the contrary , a future advantage ...
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... present acts of the will , are in no case sup- posable , whether those acts be occasional or habitual ; for that would be to suppose the will , at present , to be otherwise than , at present , it is . But yet there may be will and ...
... present acts of the will , are in no case sup- posable , whether those acts be occasional or habitual ; for that would be to suppose the will , at present , to be otherwise than , at present , it is . But yet there may be will and ...
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... present , or to come , that God is ever uncertain of : He never is , never was , and never will be without infallible knowledge of it ; He always sees the existence of it to be certain and infallible . And as he always sces things just ...
... present , or to come , that God is ever uncertain of : He never is , never was , and never will be without infallible knowledge of it ; He always sees the existence of it to be certain and infallible . And as he always sces things just ...
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