The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation Shewn from the State of Religion in the Ancient Heathen World: Especially with Respect to the Knowledge and Worship of the One True God : a Rule of Moral Duty : and a State of Future Rewards and Punishments. To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary Discourse on Natural and Revealed Religion, Volume 2The University Press, 1819 |
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... pleasure , and proposed this as the highest end of morals , without any regard to a Divine Law . The moral system of Epicurus considered . His high pre- tences to virtue examined . The inconsistency of his principles shown ; and that ...
... pleasure , and proposed this as the highest end of morals , without any regard to a Divine Law . The moral system of Epicurus considered . His high pre- tences to virtue examined . The inconsistency of his principles shown ; and that ...
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... pleasure or remorse men feel in their reflections on their own actions , is far from being a sure mark and criterion of the moral goodness or evil of an action in the present state of mankind . It is true that the mind is naturally ...
... pleasure or remorse men feel in their reflections on their own actions , is far from being a sure mark and criterion of the moral goodness or evil of an action in the present state of mankind . It is true that the mind is naturally ...
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... pleasure of their senses , " taken and considered together , since therein their happi- 66 ness consists . " * But if this be all the law that any man has to govern him in this matter , it is to be feared , that the bias of his ...
... pleasure of their senses , " taken and considered together , since therein their happi- 66 ness consists . " * But if this be all the law that any man has to govern him in this matter , it is to be feared , that the bias of his ...
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... pleasure , will always be of greater force to determine us than reason . Many instances there have been of excellent persons , in whom reason has been of greater prevalence to determine them , than the passions or present sensual pleasure ...
... pleasure , will always be of greater force to determine us than reason . Many instances there have been of excellent persons , in whom reason has been of greater prevalence to determine them , than the passions or present sensual pleasure ...
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... pleasures and riches , and love to their country ; but the body of the people were rude and ignorant to a great degree , sunk in an idolatry and superstition , than which nothing could be more gross and stupid . Their virtue was rough ...
... pleasures and riches , and love to their country ; but the body of the people were rude and ignorant to a great degree , sunk in an idolatry and superstition , than which nothing could be more gross and stupid . Their virtue was rough ...
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Page 121 - For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God...
Page 212 - With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Page 215 - God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving : 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.
Page 348 - Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen. To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God...
Page 350 - But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 27 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 357 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him?
Page 27 - For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? and what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Page 348 - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him : the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Page 362 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shall have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good.