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... ferve Eternal Punishments ; but there is no diffi- culty to conceive , that an immortal Sinner may , by fome fhort and momentary Sins , fink him- felf into an irrecoverable State of Mifery , and then he must be miferable as long as he ...
... ferve Eternal Punishments ; but there is no diffi- culty to conceive , that an immortal Sinner may , by fome fhort and momentary Sins , fink him- felf into an irrecoverable State of Mifery , and then he must be miferable as long as he ...
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... ferve the Wife Ends of his Providence in the Government of Man- kind . For as God does not ufually act without Na- ture , nor againft its Laws , fo neither does Na- ture act by fteady and uniform Motions , with- out the Direction of God ...
... ferve the Wife Ends of his Providence in the Government of Man- kind . For as God does not ufually act without Na- ture , nor againft its Laws , fo neither does Na- ture act by fteady and uniform Motions , with- out the Direction of God ...
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... ferve the Ends of a free Agent , without being guided by a Wife Hand : And we fee , in a Thoufand Inftances , what an Em . pire Human Art has over Nature , not by chan- ging the Nature of Things , ( which Human Art can never do ) but by ...
... ferve the Ends of a free Agent , without being guided by a Wife Hand : And we fee , in a Thoufand Inftances , what an Em . pire Human Art has over Nature , not by chan- ging the Nature of Things , ( which Human Art can never do ) but by ...
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... ferve them , and they shall afflict them four hundred Years , 15. Gen. 13. How cafual does all this appear to us ? But no Man will think that Prophecies are fulfilled by Chance , and therefore we must confefs , that what feems Chance to ...
... ferve them , and they shall afflict them four hundred Years , 15. Gen. 13. How cafual does all this appear to us ? But no Man will think that Prophecies are fulfilled by Chance , and therefore we must confefs , that what feems Chance to ...
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... ferve the Wife Ends of Government , as thofe other Men who are like to be the better or the worse for it , have deferved well or ill of God . Tho ' God has made Man a Free Agent , yet we muft not think that he has made fuch a Creature ...
... ferve the Wife Ends of Government , as thofe other Men who are like to be the better or the worse for it , have deferved well or ill of God . Tho ' God has made Man a Free Agent , yet we muft not think that he has made fuch a Creature ...
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Page 250 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 7 - Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Page 62 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Page 426 - For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive ; And plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
Page 395 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress ; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Page 6 - Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his mercy ; To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
Page 136 - Righteous art Thou, O Lord, when I plead with Thee : yet let me talk with Thee of Thy judgments : wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Page 336 - But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
Page 426 - The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Page 58 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.