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... Since then our inward Feelings , and the Perceptions we receive from our external Senfes are equally real ; to argue from the former to Life and Con- duct , is as little liable to Exception , as to argue from the latter to abfolute ...
... Since then our inward Feelings , and the Perceptions we receive from our external Senfes are equally real ; to argue from the former to Life and Con- duct , is as little liable to Exception , as to argue from the latter to abfolute ...
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... Since therefore it is fo hard to enter into this Subject without offending ; the first thing to be observed is , that People should learn to decline it , to get over that ftrong In- clination most have to be talking of the Concerns and ...
... Since therefore it is fo hard to enter into this Subject without offending ; the first thing to be observed is , that People should learn to decline it , to get over that ftrong In- clination most have to be talking of the Concerns and ...
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... Since therefore it is neceffary for the very Subfiftence of the World , that Injury , In- juftice and Cruelty , fhould be punished ; and fince Compaffion , which is fo natural to Mankind , would render that Execution of Juftice ...
... Since therefore it is neceffary for the very Subfiftence of the World , that Injury , In- juftice and Cruelty , fhould be punished ; and fince Compaffion , which is fo natural to Mankind , would render that Execution of Juftice ...
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... that the wrong Appear- ances were . We cannot fufpe & t Irregularity and Disorder to be defigned . The Pillars of a Building appear beautiful ; but Thirdly , Since the Conftitution of Na- Serm . ture their 306 ASERMON upon.
... that the wrong Appear- ances were . We cannot fufpe & t Irregularity and Disorder to be defigned . The Pillars of a Building appear beautiful ; but Thirdly , Since the Conftitution of Na- Serm . ture their 306 ASERMON upon.
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Joseph Butler. Thirdly , Since the Conftitution of Na- Serm . ture , and the Methods and Designs of Pro- XV . vidence in the Government of the World , are above our Comprehenfion , we should acquiefce in , and reft satisfied with our ...
Joseph Butler. Thirdly , Since the Conftitution of Na- Serm . ture , and the Methods and Designs of Pro- XV . vidence in the Government of the World , are above our Comprehenfion , we should acquiefce in , and reft satisfied with our ...
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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...