"There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life."

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Source : Charles Buck (1807). “A Theological Dictionary”, p.238

Charles Buck

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