A Careful and Strict Inquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will: Which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and BlameJ. Johnson, 1768 - 432 sider |
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Side v
... Reason . The Generality of Mankind are difpofed enough , and a great Deal too much , to Uncharitable nefs , and to be cenforious and bitter towards those that differ from them in religious Opi- nions which evil Temper of Mind will take ...
... Reason . The Generality of Mankind are difpofed enough , and a great Deal too much , to Uncharitable nefs , and to be cenforious and bitter towards those that differ from them in religious Opi- nions which evil Temper of Mind will take ...
Side xv
... Reasons why fome think it contrary to common Senfe , to fuppofe Things which are neceffary , to be worthy of either Praife or Blame . 288 SECT . IV . It is agreeable to common Senfe , and the natural Notions of Mankind , to fuppofe ...
... Reasons why fome think it contrary to common Senfe , to fuppofe Things which are neceffary , to be worthy of either Praife or Blame . 288 SECT . IV . It is agreeable to common Senfe , and the natural Notions of Mankind , to fuppofe ...
Side 17
... Reason de- clares to be beft or moft for the Perfon's Happiness , taking in the whole of his Duration , it is not true , that the Will always follows the laft Dictate of the Understanding . Such a Dictate of Reason is quite a different ...
... Reason de- clares to be beft or moft for the Perfon's Happiness , taking in the whole of his Duration , it is not true , that the Will always follows the laft Dictate of the Understanding . Such a Dictate of Reason is quite a different ...
Side 30
... Reason , because whatever Power Men may be fupposed to have to furmount Difficulties , yet that Power is not in- finite ; and fo goes not beyond certain Limits . If a Man can furmount ten Degrees of Difficulty of this Kind , with twenty ...
... Reason , because whatever Power Men may be fupposed to have to furmount Difficulties , yet that Power is not in- finite ; and fo goes not beyond certain Limits . If a Man can furmount ten Degrees of Difficulty of this Kind , with twenty ...
Side 36
... Reason may refift prefent Acts of the Will , and its Refiftance be in- fufficient ; and this is more commonly the Cafe alfo , when the Acts arife from ftrong Habit . But But it must be obferved concerning moral In- ability , 36 Of moral ...
... Reason may refift prefent Acts of the Will , and its Refiftance be in- fufficient ; and this is more commonly the Cafe alfo , when the Acts arife from ftrong Habit . But But it must be obferved concerning moral In- ability , 36 Of moral ...
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Side 210 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Side 196 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles...
Side 203 - Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, "Lo, I come:" in the volume of the book it is written of me, "I delight to do thy will, O my God." Yea, thy law is within my heart: I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
Side 211 - He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied ; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many : for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because he hath poured out his soul unto death : and he was numbered with the transgressors ; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Side 199 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath ; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the Hope set before us...
Side 207 - Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me : that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Side 214 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient...
Side 210 - And they sung a new song, saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation...
Side 199 - That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed ; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Side 358 - And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them ; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.