Discourses on Various Topics Relating to Doctrine and Practice, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1805 |
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... happiness ; and if we further recollect , that he loves us as his children , and that he can require nothing from us but what is conducive to our welfare . On the subject of personal virtue two questions will necessarily occur to us ...
... happiness ; and if we further recollect , that he loves us as his children , and that he can require nothing from us but what is conducive to our welfare . On the subject of personal virtue two questions will necessarily occur to us ...
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... happiness of the individual , and which a man's regard for him- self ought not to induce him to cultivate ; and that this is true of the virtues to be exercised toward . others , as well as of those which relate immediately the sure ...
... happiness of the individual , and which a man's regard for him- self ought not to induce him to cultivate ; and that this is true of the virtues to be exercised toward . others , as well as of those which relate immediately the sure ...
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... happiness are necessarily connected together , and cannot pos- sibly be distinct and separate , if we take into our account the whole of our existence . But he , who should never act until he sees the connection be- tweeen the action ...
... happiness are necessarily connected together , and cannot pos- sibly be distinct and separate , if we take into our account the whole of our existence . But he , who should never act until he sees the connection be- tweeen the action ...
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... happiness in virtue , yet allowed and encou- raged this practice . Referring to this it was their favourite maxim ; if the house be smoky , the door open , and you may walk out . What they thus recommended upon principle , we are not to ...
... happiness in virtue , yet allowed and encou- raged this practice . Referring to this it was their favourite maxim ; if the house be smoky , the door open , and you may walk out . What they thus recommended upon principle , we are not to ...
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... happiness of others as well as of us , and that he can prescribe no rule for the con- duct of men toward one another , which is not cal- culated to promote the general welfare . If he say , " You shall not kill ; you shall not steal ...
... happiness of others as well as of us , and that he can prescribe no rule for the con- duct of men toward one another , which is not cal- culated to promote the general welfare . If he say , " You shall not kill ; you shall not steal ...
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Page 13 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are : for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 161 - Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Page v - Wash you, make you clean: put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Page 246 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Page 113 - Take heed to yourselves : if thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him ; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent ; thou shalt forgive him.
Page 204 - Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is ; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Page 159 - But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Page 18 - Length of days is in her right hand : and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her : and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Page 172 - 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 84 - And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name...