The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added Two Brief Dissertions: I. On Personal Identity, and II. On the Nature of Virtue : Together with A Change Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham at the Primary Visitation in the Year 1751 |
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It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob , and to restore the preserved of Israel : I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles , that thou mayest be for salvation unto the end of the ...
It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob , and to restore the preserved of Israel : I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles , that thou mayest be for salvation unto the end of the ...
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The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and ... Joseph Butler Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1875 |
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Sida 59 - Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me : for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord : they would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Sida 59 - Because I have called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded ; but ye have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh...
Sida 153 - Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Sida 39 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that "he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it as are found in the constitution of nature.
Sida 133 - I express myself with caution, lest I should be mistaken to vilify reason, which is indeed the only faculty we have wherewith to judge concerning anything, even revelation itself; or be misunderstood to assert, that a supposed revelation cannot be proved false from internal characters.
Sida 16 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T
Sida 153 - 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 shewed to thee in the mount.
Sida 52 - Nay, for what we know of ourselves, of our present life and of death, death may immediately, in the natural course of things, put us into a higher and more enlarged state of life, as our birth does;* a state in which our capacities and sphere of perception and of action may be much greater than at present.
Sida 141 - Scripture precepts, which require, not vicious actions, but actions which would have been vicious had it not been for such precepts; because they are sometimes weakly urged as immoral, and great weight is laid upon objections drawn from them. But to me there seems no difficulty at all in these precepts, but what arises -from their being offences : ie from their being liable to be perverted, as indeed they are, by wicked designing men, to serve the most horrid purposes ; and, perhaps, to mislead the...
Sida 54 - I know not that we have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And, by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable ease and quiet; or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please.
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| Titel | The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added Two Brief Dissertions: I. On Personal Identity, and II. On the Nature of Virtue : Together with A Change Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham at the Primary Visitation in the ... |
| Författare | Joseph Butler |
| Utgåva | 3 |
| Utgivare | J. Wilson, 1820 |
| Original från | Harvard University |
| Digitaliserad | 27 dec 2006 |
| Längd | 239 sidor |
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