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... moral Agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality , and which can properly be denom- inated good or evil in a moral sense , virtuous or vicious , com- mendable or faulty . To moral Agency belongs a moral ...
... moral Agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality , and which can properly be denom- inated good or evil in a moral sense , virtuous or vicious , com- mendable or faulty . To moral Agency belongs a moral ...
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... moral Agents ; and whether any such Thing ever was or can be conceived of . SECTION I. Shewing the manifest Inconsistence of the Arminian Notion of Liberty of Will , consisting in the Will's Selfdetermining Power , HAVING taken notice ...
... moral Agents ; and whether any such Thing ever was or can be conceived of . SECTION I. Shewing the manifest Inconsistence of the Arminian Notion of Liberty of Will , consisting in the Will's Selfdetermining Power , HAVING taken notice ...
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... moral Agents . THAT the acts of the Wills of moral agents are not con- tingent events , in that sense , as to be without all necessity , appears by God's certain foreknowledge of such events . In handling this argument , I would in the ...
... moral Agents . THAT the acts of the Wills of moral agents are not con- tingent events , in that sense , as to be without all necessity , appears by God's certain foreknowledge of such events . In handling this argument , I would in the ...
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... moral agents , then neither can he certainly foreknow those events which are consequent and dependent on these volitions . The existence of the one depending on the existence of the other ; the knowledge of the existence of the one ...
... moral agents , then neither can he certainly foreknow those events which are consequent and dependent on these volitions . The existence of the one depending on the existence of the other ; the knowledge of the existence of the one ...
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... moral agents , had not been foreseen ? The fu- ture cruelty of the Egyptians in oppressing Israel , and God's judging and punishing them for it , was foretold long before it came to pass , Gen. xv . 13 , 14. The continuance of the ini ...
... moral agents , had not been foreseen ? The fu- ture cruelty of the Egyptians in oppressing Israel , and God's judging and punishing them for it , was foretold long before it came to pass , Gen. xv . 13 , 14. The continuance of the ini ...
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Page 398 - Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Page 504 - But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
Page 376 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 494 - And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
Page 503 - Christ was confirmed in you, so that ye come behind in no gift ; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ;) who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 352 - Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
Page 456 - And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob : for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes : but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers
Page 334 - For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 385 - And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Page 443 - We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not ; but he that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.