Cyclopædia
Assuming sin is required, the following 10 results were found.
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ACTUALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTUAL
or a habit inherent in the soul, which renders us agreeable to God, and objects of eternal recompense. See GRACE. So, Actual Sin is used in opposition to Original Sin. See SIN. Actual Sin is that committed knowingly, by a person arrived at years of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABDUCTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ABDUCTION
as not to require some further Medium, or Proof to make it appear. Thus, in the Syllogism, All whom God absolves are free of Sin ; bus God absolves all who are in Christ : Therefore, all who are in Christ are free of Sin. The Major is evident ; but the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Logics
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ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS
of Jesus Christ, it was injurious to the Name of Christian, that they had hitherto been reputed Servants, "quod huc usque sint habitivelut conditione servi." Accordingly, they proclaimed everywhere that they only took up Arms because they esteemed...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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Theologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology
&c. Promises, as Grace, Justification, &c. Decrees, as Predestination, Election, Reprobation, &c. Breaches on our Part, Sin, Apostacy, Imputation, &c. Remedies thereof, by Repentance, Confession, &c. Rewards and Punishments allotted thereto, Heaven,...
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
quadratrix, &c. Circumstances thereof, as Axis, Diameter, Radius, Centre, Circumference, Absciss, Ordinate, &c. Arch, Chord, Sine, Tangent, Secant, &c. Instruments used herein, as Artificial Lines, Canons, &c. Operations arising herefrom, as Surveying,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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AUGUSTINShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUGUSTINS
the second divers Treatises of Reason; the use of Authority in Theological Matters; the State of Innocence; fall of Nature by Sin, Grace, etc.—From these several Treatises were collected the five famous Propositions, enumerated under the Article...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ATTRITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTRITION
among Divines, is a Sorrow or Regret for having offended God; arising from a Sense of the Odiousness of Sin, and the Apprehensions of having incurred the loss of Heaven and Punishment, i.e. the Pains of Hell. See HEAVEN and HELL. Attrition is esteem’d...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE
of England recommends certain Days of Fasting and Abstinence.---— The Great Fast, says St. Augustin, is to abstain from Sin. See FAST. The antient Athletæ liv'd in a perpetual Abstinence from all kind of sensible Pleasure, to render their Bodies more...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABSOLUTION
Canon Law, is a Juridical Act, whereby a Priest, as a Judge, and in virtue of a Power given him by Jesus Christ, remits the Sins of such as appear to have the Conditions requisite thereto. The Romanists hold Absolution a Part of the Sacrament of Penance...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ANTICHRISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICHRIST
The Word is compounded of the Greek ἀντί, contra, against, and χριστός, Christ. In Scripture, he is also called Man of Sin, Son of Perdition, etc. 'Tis added that he shall set up his Throne at Babylon. The Bible and the Fathers all speak of Antichrist...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified