A Religious Conference, in Four Dialogues, Between Lorenzo and Evander |
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... creatures , where there was not the least prospect of reward . I think you will not deny that benevolence consists in giving without expectation of receiving . Evander . I very much differ with you in the idea of true benevolence . What ...
... creatures , where there was not the least prospect of reward . I think you will not deny that benevolence consists in giving without expectation of receiving . Evander . I very much differ with you in the idea of true benevolence . What ...
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... creatures , throughout God's vast dominion , are bound to love , serve , and obey him with all their powers and faculties ; and any act short of this , is sinfully defective : " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor , and though ...
... creatures , throughout God's vast dominion , are bound to love , serve , and obey him with all their powers and faculties ; and any act short of this , is sinfully defective : " Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor , and though ...
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... creature of all ground of boasting , and lays him at the footstool of sove- reign mercy . I will thank you to point out wherein total depravity is inconsistent with the benevolence of the Deity . Lorenzo . If we are by nature totally ...
... creature of all ground of boasting , and lays him at the footstool of sove- reign mercy . I will thank you to point out wherein total depravity is inconsistent with the benevolence of the Deity . Lorenzo . If we are by nature totally ...
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... creature can make , will not frustrate or disap- point Omnipotence . Evander . I readily grant , that such conse- quences naturally follow from the principles of fatality ; but utterly deny that they flow from the doctrine of the Divine ...
... creature can make , will not frustrate or disap- point Omnipotence . Evander . I readily grant , that such conse- quences naturally follow from the principles of fatality ; but utterly deny that they flow from the doctrine of the Divine ...
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... creature a part of God ; it destroys all creature agency , and renders their actions no more their own than the movements of a ma- chine ; so that all the volitions of the inhabi- tants of heaven , earth , and hell , are only the ...
... creature a part of God ; it destroys all creature agency , and renders their actions no more their own than the movements of a ma- chine ; so that all the volitions of the inhabi- tants of heaven , earth , and hell , are only the ...
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