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Page 110
... evil , His creatures , we see , are apt to abuse their liberty , and rebel and become apostates ; though they have an infinite pleasure to aspire after , and an infinite destruction or wrath to fear . What would they do if the divine ...
... evil , His creatures , we see , are apt to abuse their liberty , and rebel and become apostates ; though they have an infinite pleasure to aspire after , and an infinite destruction or wrath to fear . What would they do if the divine ...
Page 114
... evil dwell with thee . The foolish shall not stand in thy sight ; thou hatest all workers of iniquity . Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing ; the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man . The express declaration of God ...
... evil dwell with thee . The foolish shall not stand in thy sight ; thou hatest all workers of iniquity . Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing ; the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man . The express declaration of God ...
Page 204
... evil he hath done than at any evil he can otherwise suffer ; and his godly sorrow , as Moses ' rod did eat up all the rods of the Egyptians , will devour all other sorrows whatsoever . To consider that God was the first patient person ...
... evil he hath done than at any evil he can otherwise suffer ; and his godly sorrow , as Moses ' rod did eat up all the rods of the Egyptians , will devour all other sorrows whatsoever . To consider that God was the first patient person ...
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