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Page 54
... worth while more distinctly to consider what it is which constitutes our trial in both capacities , and to observe how ... self - love the end of which is our worldly interest , than they are with the principle of virtue and reli- gion ...
... worth while more distinctly to consider what it is which constitutes our trial in both capacities , and to observe how ... self - love the end of which is our worldly interest , than they are with the principle of virtue and reli- gion ...
Page 71
... self - love wants to be improved , as really as any principle in our nature : for we daily see it overmatched , not only by the more boisterous passions , but by curiosity , shame , love of imitation , by anything , even indolence ...
... self - love wants to be improved , as really as any principle in our nature : for we daily see it overmatched , not only by the more boisterous passions , but by curiosity , shame , love of imitation , by anything , even indolence ...
Page 78
... self - love . But doing what God commands , because he commands it , is obedience , though it proceeds from hope or fear ; and a course of such obedience will form habits of it ; and a constant regard to veracity , justice , and charity ...
... self - love . But doing what God commands , because he commands it , is obedience , though it proceeds from hope or fear ; and a course of such obedience will form habits of it ; and a constant regard to veracity , justice , and charity ...
Page 79
... self - love , considered merely as an active principle leading us to pursue our chief interest , cannot but be uni- formly coincident with the principle of obedience to God's commands , our interest being rightly understood ; because ...
... self - love , considered merely as an active principle leading us to pursue our chief interest , cannot but be uni- formly coincident with the principle of obedience to God's commands , our interest being rightly understood ; because ...
Page 80
... self - love . But the proper discipline for resignation is affliction . For a right behaviour under that trial , recollecting ourselves so as to consider it , in the view in which religion teaches us to consider it , as from the hand of ...
... self - love . But the proper discipline for resignation is affliction . For a right behaviour under that trial , recollecting ourselves so as to consider it , in the view in which religion teaches us to consider it , as from the hand of ...
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Page 57 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 168 - For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect.
Page 271 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy: but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you...
Page 68 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
Page 170 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying ; Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Page 272 - 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 190 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 169 - And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation ; and not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
Page 168 - Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for. See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.
Page 152 - 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.