The rule of conscienceOgle, Duncan and Company, 1822 |
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... equal and merciful sen- tence . What goes beyond this , may abuse the conscience , not only by a secret scruple , but by an evil principle and false conclusions : and this , although it looks like modesty , and seems contrary to ...
... equal and merciful sen- tence . What goes beyond this , may abuse the conscience , not only by a secret scruple , but by an evil principle and false conclusions : and this , although it looks like modesty , and seems contrary to ...
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... evil Action in obedience to it . THIS rule concerns degrees only , but is useful in the con- ducting some actions of repentance ; and it is to be under- stood to be true only in equal cases , and 18 OF THE CONFIDENT ,
... evil Action in obedience to it . THIS rule concerns degrees only , but is useful in the con- ducting some actions of repentance ; and it is to be under- stood to be true only in equal cases , and 18 OF THE CONFIDENT ,
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... equal ; because in one there is a greater light , a more ready grace , a perfect instruction , an evident provision , an open restraint , and a ready command- ment . But when the effect of the questions is equal , and not differenced by ...
... equal ; because in one there is a greater light , a more ready grace , a perfect instruction , an evident provision , an open restraint , and a ready command- ment . But when the effect of the questions is equal , and not differenced by ...
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... equal in both , they have their own superadded evil to weigh against each other . RULE V. It is not lawful to delight in an evil Action ( after the Discovery of our Error ) , which we did innocently in an erroneous Con- science . a THE ...
... equal in both , they have their own superadded evil to weigh against each other . RULE V. It is not lawful to delight in an evil Action ( after the Discovery of our Error ) , which we did innocently in an erroneous Con- science . a THE ...
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... , to our superiors , whom God seems , in some a Lib . de præcept . et dispens . manner , to make equal to himself , while the 22 OF THE CONFIDENT , Conscience is to be obeyed even against the Commandment of Superiors.
... , to our superiors , whom God seems , in some a Lib . de præcept . et dispens . manner , to make equal to himself , while the 22 OF THE CONFIDENT , Conscience is to be obeyed even against the Commandment of Superiors.
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Page 499 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Page 371 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 286 - The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
Page 366 - I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt : open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Page 350 - THY word is a lantern unto my feet : and a light unto my paths.
Page 328 - And yet indeed she is my sister: she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Page 370 - To whom then will ye liken GOD ? or what likeness will ye compare unto Him ? The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
Page 326 - There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people: 2 But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, 3 And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband ; for her may he be defiled.
Page 370 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 294 - But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.