The Works of Bishop Sherlock: With Some Account of His Life, Summary of Each Discourse, Notes, &c, Volume 2A.J. Valpy, 1830 - Theology |
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... Vice and immorality naturally tend to destroy nations and governments , which is agreeable to our notion of God's justice and goodness . II . It is also agreeable to our sense of justice and goodness , that nations quite corrupt and ...
... Vice and immorality naturally tend to destroy nations and governments , which is agreeable to our notion of God's justice and goodness . II . It is also agreeable to our sense of justice and goodness , that nations quite corrupt and ...
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... vice ? If these are natural passions , and undoubtedly they are , it is God who calls you daily by these his messengers into the ways of honor and virtue , and warns you to flee from vice and iniquity . These are undeniable proofs of ...
... vice ? If these are natural passions , and undoubtedly they are , it is God who calls you daily by these his messengers into the ways of honor and virtue , and warns you to flee from vice and iniquity . These are undeniable proofs of ...
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... vice here , as are inconsistent with freedom of actions ; but does by no means exclude any me- thods not liable to this objection . Thirdly , that the natural course of things being under the direction of God , it is reasonable to ...
... vice here , as are inconsistent with freedom of actions ; but does by no means exclude any me- thods not liable to this objection . Thirdly , that the natural course of things being under the direction of God , it is reasonable to ...
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... to estimate the virtue and vice of nations , so as to say when they are ripe for destruction , yet there are some general observations which lie within our reach , that will- help to justify the providence of God in this part 28 SHERLOCK .
... to estimate the virtue and vice of nations , so as to say when they are ripe for destruction , yet there are some general observations which lie within our reach , that will- help to justify the providence of God in this part 28 SHERLOCK .
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... vice and immorality to weaken and destroy nations and governments ; and that it should be so is agreeable , in general , to the notion we have of God's justice and goodness . Secondly , it is also agreeable to our sense of justice and ...
... vice and immorality to weaken and destroy nations and governments ; and that it should be so is agreeable , in general , to the notion we have of God's justice and goodness . Secondly , it is also agreeable to our sense of justice and ...
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Page 228 - Let him that stole, steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 323 - Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it but "sin
Page 474 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 461 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature ; for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers ; all things were created by him, and for him; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist...
Page 14 - This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Page 416 - Whosoever . therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven.
Page 359 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 323 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 346 - In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ : buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Page 261 - Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath. But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming...