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... Love of our Neigh bour . Upon the Love of God . Upon the Ignorance of Man . To which are added , SIX SERMONS Preached on PUBLIC OCCASIONS . By JOSEPH BUTLER , LL . D. Now Lord Bishop of Briftel . New The FOURTH EDITION . LONDON ...
... Love of our Neigh bour . Upon the Love of God . Upon the Ignorance of Man . To which are added , SIX SERMONS Preached on PUBLIC OCCASIONS . By JOSEPH BUTLER , LL . D. Now Lord Bishop of Briftel . New The FOURTH EDITION . LONDON ...
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... love , the love of Power and fenfual Appetites : Since , as on the one Hand , they are often actuated by thefe , with- out any Regard to Right or Wrong ; fo on the other , ' tis manifest Fact , that the fame Perfons , the Generality ...
... love , the love of Power and fenfual Appetites : Since , as on the one Hand , they are often actuated by thefe , with- out any Regard to Right or Wrong ; fo on the other , ' tis manifest Fact , that the fame Perfons , the Generality ...
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... Love of our Enemies : Refentment cannot fuperfede the Obligation to univerfal Benevolence , unless they are in the Nature of the thing inconfiftent , which they plainly are not * . THIS Divine Precept , to forgive Inju- ries and love ...
... Love of our Enemies : Refentment cannot fuperfede the Obligation to univerfal Benevolence , unless they are in the Nature of the thing inconfiftent , which they plainly are not * . THIS Divine Precept , to forgive Inju- ries and love ...
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... love , than any other particular Affection whatever . There is a ftrange Affectation in many People of explaining away all particu- lar Affections , and reprefenting the whole of Life as nothing but one continued Exer- cife of Self - love ...
... love , than any other particular Affection whatever . There is a ftrange Affectation in many People of explaining away all particu- lar Affections , and reprefenting the whole of Life as nothing but one continued Exer- cife of Self - love ...
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... love , and the Actions proceeding from it , Interested : And to fay of the latter , that they are not Love to Our- felves , but Movements towards fomewhat external Honour , Power , the Harm or Good of Another : And that the Pursuit of ...
... love , and the Actions proceeding from it , Interested : And to fay of the latter , that they are not Love to Our- felves , but Movements towards fomewhat external Honour , Power , the Harm or Good of Another : And that the Pursuit of ...
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abfolutely Action Affection Affiftance againſt alfo alſo amongſt anſwer Appetites arife Balaam becauſe Behaviour Benevolence Cafe cern Character Charity Chriftian Circumftances Compaffion Confcience Confequence confider Confideration confifts Conftitution Courfe Courſe Creatures Defign Defire Degree diftinct endeavour Evil exerciſed faid fame feems Fellow-creatures felves ferve feveral fhall fhew fhould fince fome fomewhat fpeaking ftand ftill fuch fuppofe furely Goodneſs Government greateſt Happineſs hath higheſt himſelf increaſe Inftances Inftruction Injury Intereft itſelf juft Kind laft lefs leſs Liberty likewife Love manifeft Mankind Manner Meaſure Mifery Mind Moab moft moral moſt muft muſt Nature neceffarily neceffary nefs Neighbour neral Obfervation Object Obligations Occafion ourſelves Paffion particular Perfons plainly Pleaſure poffible Poor prefent Principle publick Purpoſes raiſed Reaſon Refpects Religion Riches Self-love Senfe Senſe SERM SERMON ſhall ſpeak Temper thefe themſelves ther theſe thing thofe thoſe tion ture Underſtanding unto uſed Vice Virtue Wiſdom World XVII XVIII
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Page 310 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 177 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : 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 118 - And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
Page 178 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock, and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page xl - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Page 119 - 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 142 - 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 257 - That which we more strictly call piety, or the love of God, and which is an essential part of a right temper, some may perhaps imagine no way connected with benevolence: yet surely they must be connected, if there be indeed in being an object infinitely...
Page ii - ... this idle way of reading and considering things. . By this means, time, even in solitude, is happily got rid of, without the pain of attention ^ Neither is any; part of it more put to the account of idleness, one can scarce forbear saying, -is spent with less thought, than great part of that which is spent in reading.
Page 312 - Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.