Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls ChapelBotham, 1726 - 312 pages |
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... Suppose a Man of Learning to be writing a grave Book upon Humane Nature , and to fhew in feveral Parts of it that he had an Infight into the Subject he was confidering : A- mongst other things , the following one would require to be ...
... Suppose a Man of Learning to be writing a grave Book upon Humane Nature , and to fhew in feveral Parts of it that he had an Infight into the Subject he was confidering : A- mongst other things , the following one would require to be ...
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... Suppose a Man to relieve an innocent Perfon in great Diftrefs ; fuppofe the fame Man afterwards , in the Fury of Anger , to do the greatest Mischief to a Person who had given no just Cause of Offence ; to aggravate the Injury , add the ...
... Suppose a Man to relieve an innocent Perfon in great Diftrefs ; fuppofe the fame Man afterwards , in the Fury of Anger , to do the greatest Mischief to a Person who had given no just Cause of Offence ; to aggravate the Injury , add the ...
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... Suppose a brute Creature by any Bait to be allured into a Snare by which he is destroyed : He plainly followed the Bent of his Nature leading him to gra- tify his Appetite ; there is an entire Cor- refpondence between his whole Nature ...
... Suppose a brute Creature by any Bait to be allured into a Snare by which he is destroyed : He plainly followed the Bent of his Nature leading him to gra- tify his Appetite ; there is an entire Cor- refpondence between his whole Nature ...
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... suppose , Inftances where the bare Sight of Diftrefs , without our feeling any Compaffion for it , may be the Occafion of either or both of the two latter . One might add , that if there be really any fuch thing as the Fiction or ...
... suppose , Inftances where the bare Sight of Diftrefs , without our feeling any Compaffion for it , may be the Occafion of either or both of the two latter . One might add , that if there be really any fuch thing as the Fiction or ...
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... suppose , in some De- grce , as to Pain and Sickness . Now this Part of the Conftitution or Make of Man , confidered as fome Relief to Mifery , and not as Provision for pofitive Happiness , is , if I may so speak , an Inftance of ...
... suppose , in some De- grce , as to Pain and Sickness . Now this Part of the Conftitution or Make of Man , confidered as fome Relief to Mifery , and not as Provision for pofitive Happiness , is , if I may so speak , an Inftance of ...
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Page 257 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 170 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 259 - ... of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things...
Page 111 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 283 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun...
Page 288 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Page 134 - The indignation raised by cruelty and injustice, and the desire of having it punished, which persons unconcerned would feel, is by no means malice. No, it is resentment against vice and wickedness : it is one of the common bonds, by which society is held together; a fellow-feeling, which each individual has in behalf of the whole species, as well as of himself.
Page 286 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Page 39 - Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide ; the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature...