Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls ChapelBotham, 1726 - 312 páginas |
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... Course preferve it meerly from the Appetite of Hunger ; fo by acting meerly from Regard ( fuppofe ) to Reputati- on , without any Confideration of the Good of others , Men often contribute to publick Good : In both these Inftances they ...
... Course preferve it meerly from the Appetite of Hunger ; fo by acting meerly from Regard ( fuppofe ) to Reputati- on , without any Confideration of the Good of others , Men often contribute to publick Good : In both these Inftances they ...
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... Affection alone , if he thought it , and the Course of Action it led to , either in- different or criminal . This indeed is im- poffible , to do that which is good and not to to approve of it ; for which reason they are 14 A SERMON.
... Affection alone , if he thought it , and the Course of Action it led to , either in- different or criminal . This indeed is im- poffible , to do that which is good and not to to approve of it ; for which reason they are 14 A SERMON.
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... Courses of Life they lead to , approved by the Principle of Reflection or Confcience , it is as manifeft , that we were made for Society , and to promote the Happiness of it , as that we were intend ed to take Care of our own Life , and ...
... Courses of Life they lead to , approved by the Principle of Reflection or Confcience , it is as manifeft , that we were made for Society , and to promote the Happiness of it , as that we were intend ed to take Care of our own Life , and ...
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... Course of Behaviour . There is fuch a na- tural Principle of Attraction in Man to- wards Man , that having trod the fame Tract of Land , having breathed in the fame Cli- mate , barely having been born in the same artificial District or ...
... Course of Behaviour . There is fuch a na- tural Principle of Attraction in Man to- wards Man , that having trod the fame Tract of Land , having breathed in the fame Cli- mate , barely having been born in the same artificial District or ...
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... Course of Life : These things are all feen , acknowledged , by every one acknowledged ; but are thought no Objecti- ons againft , though they exprefly contradict , this univerfal Principle , that the Happiness of the prefent Life ...
... Course of Life : These things are all feen , acknowledged , by every one acknowledged ; but are thought no Objecti- ons againft , though they exprefly contradict , this univerfal Principle , that the Happiness of the prefent Life ...
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Abfurdity Abuſes Action Affection againſt almoſt amongſt Anſwer Appetites arifing Balaam becauſe Behaviour Benevolence Buſineſs Cafes Cauſe cerning Character Circumftances Compaffion Confcience Confequence Confideration confidered confifts Conftitution Courſe Creature Defign Defire Degree Difcourfe Difpofition diftinct Diftrefs eaſy Enjoyment Evil Exerciſe faid fame feem felf Fellow-creatures felves feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firſt fome fomewhat fuch fuppofe fure Good-will Goodneſs Gratification greateſt Happineſs hath Heart himſelf Humane Nature Inftances Injury Intereft intirely itſelf juft juſt Kind leaſt lefs likewife Love manifeft Mankind meerly Mifery Mind Moab moft moral moſt muft muſt neceffarily nefs Neighbour neral Obfervation Object Occafion ourſelves Paffion particular Perfons plainly Pleaſure poffible Principle publick Purpoſe Queſtion racters raiſed Reaſon Refentment Reflection reſpect Reſtraint Satisfaction ſay Self-love Senfe Senſe Serm ſhall ſpeak ſuch Temper thefe themſelves ther theſe things thofe thoſe thought tion Tongue tural ture Underſtanding underſtood Uſe Vice Virtue Wiſdom Words World
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 259 - ... of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things...
Página 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...
Página 283 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 286 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 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...