A practical treatise upon Christian perfection. Repr. [of the 1726 ed.].1734 |
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... it be , but a living in fuch holy tempers , and acting with fuch difpofitions as Christianity requires ? Now if this be perfection , who can exceed it ? And yet what state , or circumstances of life , can allow any people to fall short of ...
... it be , but a living in fuch holy tempers , and acting with fuch difpofitions as Christianity requires ? Now if this be perfection , who can exceed it ? And yet what state , or circumstances of life , can allow any people to fall short of ...
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... it ftill holds good , that it is the perfection of the heart that makes the perfection of every state of life . IT may perhaps be farther objected , that the diffe- rent degrees of glory in another life fuppofes that good men , and fuch ...
... it ftill holds good , that it is the perfection of the heart that makes the perfection of every state of life . IT may perhaps be farther objected , that the diffe- rent degrees of glory in another life fuppofes that good men , and fuch ...
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... IT therefore plainly appears , that the different de- grees of glory in another life , are no more a proof that God calls fome perfons to different and lower states of goodness than others , than his pardoning variety of finners is a ...
... IT therefore plainly appears , that the different de- grees of glory in another life , are no more a proof that God calls fome perfons to different and lower states of goodness than others , than his pardoning variety of finners is a ...
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... it is not in the power of man to take them of himself . It is not for any one to fay , I will practife fo much goodness , and fo take fuch a reward . God feeth different abilities and frailties in men , which may move his goodness to be ...
... it is not in the power of man to take them of himself . It is not for any one to fay , I will practife fo much goodness , and fo take fuch a reward . God feeth different abilities and frailties in men , which may move his goodness to be ...
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... IT gives us right and fatisfactory notions of our- felves , of our true good and real evil ; it fhews us the true state of our condition , both our vanity and excel- lence , our greatness and meannefs , our felicity and mifery . BEFORE ...
... IT gives us right and fatisfactory notions of our- felves , of our true good and real evil ; it fhews us the true state of our condition , both our vanity and excel- lence , our greatness and meannefs , our felicity and mifery . BEFORE ...
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