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And put not forth my goodnefs, which is free To adl or not, NecefTity and Chance Approach not me, and what 1 will is fate.
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„ I know too well that heavenly temper, "cries Jones," that divine goodnefs which is beyond
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Whence it is that in our law the goodnefs of a cuftom depends upon it's having been ufed time out of mind; or, in the folemnity of our legal phrafe, time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
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I am really fo exhaufted that, little as I am in the habit of askng of the houle an indulgence of this kind, I feel that I muft titf - pafs on their goodnefs.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Thefe conclufions are drawn from the character of God; from his juftice, truth, goodnefs and mercy.
The equity of God's dealings with nations [microform] : a sermon, preached in Salem, July 23, 1812, a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer in Massachusetts, occasioned by the declaration of war against Great-Britain Emerson, Brown, 1778-1872 1812
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Holinefs is moral redlitude, a conformity to perfeSl goodnefs; or, in other words, it is the perfe61ion of benevolence or love.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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It is not the example which makes the adion good; but the goodnefs of the adion which gives force to the example*
Three dialogues on the amusements of clergymen [signed Jos. Frampton]. 1797
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You, therefore, who have a fenfe of divine goodnefs, muft perform the delightful duty of thia day.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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They ought even now to rejoice, that the goodnefs and mercy of God en - dureth forever; and that his wifdom dire6ls him how to exercife his goodnefs, and how to confer his favors in the beft poffible manner.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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He had experienced the power, the goodnefs, and the allfufficiency of God % andj therefore, would renewedly SERMON IX.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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