The Works of Thomas Secker, LL. D.: Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume 4F., C., and J. Rivington [and 15 others], 1811 |
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... virtue are realities , we are bound to every thing which they require in every case . If they are not , we are bound to nothing in any case . Whoever then is shocked at the latter supposition , must take refuge in the former : and ...
... virtue are realities , we are bound to every thing which they require in every case . If they are not , we are bound to nothing in any case . Whoever then is shocked at the latter supposition , must take refuge in the former : and ...
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... other persons , when society , when the honour of God , when piety and virtue , suffer by it ; there is evidently the samé , there is * Acts xxvi . 25. + Ps . xv . 4. t Ps . xii . 4 . often far greater , guilt in it . And , 10 SERMON I.
... other persons , when society , when the honour of God , when piety and virtue , suffer by it ; there is evidently the samé , there is * Acts xxvi . 25. + Ps . xv . 4. t Ps . xii . 4 . often far greater , guilt in it . And , 10 SERMON I.
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... and hating covet- ousness ? If advanced to stations of eminence and power , do we countenance religion , virtue , and me- * Matth . xii . 37 . + Exod . xviii . 21 . rit ; and discourage the worthless and profligate ? or SERMON I. 11.
... and hating covet- ousness ? If advanced to stations of eminence and power , do we countenance religion , virtue , and me- * Matth . xii . 37 . + Exod . xviii . 21 . rit ; and discourage the worthless and profligate ? or SERMON I. 11.
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... virtue may be , yet in practice great allowance is due to inclination ; this being as truly part of our nature as reason . And when persons find many others that seem to judge in the same manner , ( especially if some of them be of that ...
... virtue may be , yet in practice great allowance is due to inclination ; this being as truly part of our nature as reason . And when persons find many others that seem to judge in the same manner , ( especially if some of them be of that ...
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... virtue , from unwillingness to confess obligations , or from the mere pride of these poor shallow understandings of ours , claiming to know every reason that God hath for his actions , while yet we know completely no one thing around us ...
... virtue , from unwillingness to confess obligations , or from the mere pride of these poor shallow understandings of ours , claiming to know every reason that God hath for his actions , while yet we know completely no one thing around us ...
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