The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1809 |
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... kind of selflove is properly called selfishness . In some sense , the most benevolent , generous person in the world , seeks his own happiness in doing good to others , because he places his happiness in their good . His mind is so ...
... kind of selflove is properly called selfishness . In some sense , the most benevolent , generous person in the world , seeks his own happiness in doing good to others , because he places his happiness in their good . His mind is so ...
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... kind , or that the beneficence is not so free . But it has been observed that none of these things take place , with regard to that disposition , which has been supposed to have excited God to create the world . I confess there is a ...
... kind , or that the beneficence is not so free . But it has been observed that none of these things take place , with regard to that disposition , which has been supposed to have excited God to create the world . I confess there is a ...
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... kind of good in God , but only expresses the degree of the good there is in him . So God's eternity is not a distinct good ; but is the duration of good . His immutability is still the same good , with a negation of change . So that ...
... kind of good in God , but only expresses the degree of the good there is in him . So God's eternity is not a distinct good ; but is the duration of good . His immutability is still the same good , with a negation of change . So that ...
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... kind actions of even criminals them- selves surpass their crimes in numbers ; that it is the rarity of crimes , in comparison of innocent or good actions , which engages our attention to them , and makes them to be record- ed in history ...
... kind actions of even criminals them- selves surpass their crimes in numbers ; that it is the rarity of crimes , in comparison of innocent or good actions , which engages our attention to them , and makes them to be record- ed in history ...
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... kind are in by the fall . He often speaks of death and afflic tion as coming on Adam's posterity in consequence of his sin ; and in pages 20 , 21 , and many other places , he supposes that these things come in consequence of his sin ...
... kind are in by the fall . He often speaks of death and afflic tion as coming on Adam's posterity in consequence of his sin ; and in pages 20 , 21 , and many other places , he supposes that these things come in consequence of his sin ...
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