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Passive virtues , of all others the severest and the most sublime ; of all others , perhaps , the most acceptable to the Deity ... be excluded from a constitution , in which happiness and misery regularly followed virtue and vice .
Passive virtues , of all others the severest and the most sublime ; of all others , perhaps , the most acceptable to the Deity ... be excluded from a constitution , in which happiness and misery regularly followed virtue and vice .
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By way of shewing scripturally the obligation and the necessity of personal endeavours after virtue , all the numerous texts which exhort to virtue , and admonish us against vice , might be quoted , for they are all directly to the ...
By way of shewing scripturally the obligation and the necessity of personal endeavours after virtue , all the numerous texts which exhort to virtue , and admonish us against vice , might be quoted , for they are all directly to the ...
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to consider sickness , not so much as a preparation for death , as the trial of our virtue ; of virtues the most severe , the most arduous , perhaps the best pleasing to Almighty God ; namely , trust and confidence in him under ...
to consider sickness , not so much as a preparation for death , as the trial of our virtue ; of virtues the most severe , the most arduous , perhaps the best pleasing to Almighty God ; namely , trust and confidence in him under ...
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Contents
State of the argument | 1 |
Application of the argument | 7 |
Application of the argument continued | 21 |
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| Title | Natural theology ; Horæ Paulinæ ; Clergyman's companion ; and sermons Volume 2 of The Works of William Paley: Complete in Two Volumes, William Paley |
| Author | William Paley |
| Publisher | Henry Fisher, Son, and P. Jackson, 1928 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Jun 2006 |
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