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Definition of Perfections
1. perfection [n] - See also: perfection
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfections
Literary usage of Perfections
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Joseph Bellamy, D.D., First Pastor of the Church in Bethlem by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1853)
"And this is another of the glorious perfections of his nature. Thus all the
perfections of God are discovered in his government of the world. ..."
2. The Works of Joseph Bellamy, D.D., First Pastor of the Church in Bethlem by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1853)
"In the works of nature his natural perfections are to be seen ; but in his moral
... Indeed, all the perfections of God are to be seen in the work of ..."
3. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards (1844)
"They say, that we ought to begin in religion, with the perfections of God, and
make these a rule to interpret Scripture. ANS. l. If this be the best rule, ..."
4. A Body of Divinity: Wherein the Doctrines of the Christian Religion are by Thomas Ridgley (1814)
"The same may be said of all his other perfections ; he worketh not as man worketh ;
whatever perfections are ascribed to the creature, they are to be ..."
5. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"Yet they allow, that God permitting it does not make him guilty of it. § 19.
They say that we ought to begin in religion, with the perfections of God, ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Some perfections are such that, even in the abstract, they necessarily imply or
connote ... To the first class belong all material perfections—extension, ..."
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