The Analogy Or Religion Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added Two Brief Dissertations: 1. Of Personal Identity. 2. Of the Nature of VirtueRobert Horsfield, 1765 - 467 sidor |
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... judge ; I fay upon our having obferved the like , either with refpect to Others or Ourselves . And thus , whereas the Prince who had al- ways lived in a warm Climate , naturally con- cluded in the way of Analogy , that there was no fuch ...
... judge ; I fay upon our having obferved the like , either with refpect to Others or Ourselves . And thus , whereas the Prince who had al- ways lived in a warm Climate , naturally con- cluded in the way of Analogy , that there was no fuch ...
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... judge or determine Some Ends to be abfolutely in themselves preferable to O- thers , and that the Ends now mentioned , or if they run up into one , that this One is ab + folutely the beft ; and confequently that we muft conclude the ...
... judge or determine Some Ends to be abfolutely in themselves preferable to O- thers , and that the Ends now mentioned , or if they run up into one , that this One is ab + folutely the beft ; and confequently that we muft conclude the ...
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... Judges of the Con- duct of each other . Our whole Nature leads us to afcribe all moral Perfection to God , and to deny all Imperfection of him . And this will for ever be a practical Proof of his moral Character , to fuch as will ...
... Judges of the Con- duct of each other . Our whole Nature leads us to afcribe all moral Perfection to God , and to deny all Imperfection of him . And this will for ever be a practical Proof of his moral Character , to fuch as will ...
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... Judge of the World . Moral Government confifts , not barely in rewarding and punishing Men for their Actions , which the most tyrannical Perfon may do but in rewarding the Righ- teous and punishing the Wicked ; in rendring to Men ...
... Judge of the World . Moral Government confifts , not barely in rewarding and punishing Men for their Actions , which the most tyrannical Perfon may do but in rewarding the Righ- teous and punishing the Wicked ; in rendring to Men ...
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... judge at all from the Analogy of Nature , we muft fuppofe , ac- cording to the Scripture Account of it , that it will be a Community . And there is no Shadow of any thing unreafonable in con- ceiving , though there be no Analogy for it ...
... judge at all from the Analogy of Nature , we muft fuppofe , ac- cording to the Scripture Account of it , that it will be a Community . And there is no Shadow of any thing unreafonable in con- ceiving , though there be no Analogy for it ...
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Sida iv - ... absolute and formal obligation, in point of prudence and of interest, to act upon that presumption or low probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so.
Sida 216 - ... like a city upon a hill, a standing memorial to the world of the duty which we owe our Maker; to call men continually, both by example and instruction, to attend to it, and by the form of religion ever before their eyes, remind them of the reality: to be the repository of the oracles of God; to hold up the light of revelation in aid to that of nature, and propagate it throughout all generations to the end of the world — the light of revelation considered here in no other view than as designed...
Sida 183 - Indeed the natural and moral constitution and government of the world are so connected, as to make up together but one scheme : and it is highly probable, that the first is formed and carried on merely in subserviency to the latter; as the vegetable world is for the animal, and organized bodies for minds..
Sida 47 - Now, in the present state, all which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our Nature with capacities of foreseeing these consequences.
Sida 453 - ... in general, there is in reality an universally acknowledged standard of it. It is that, which all ages and all countries have made profession of in public : it is that, which every man you meet, puts on the show of: it is that, which the primary and fundamental laws of all civil constitutions, over the face of the earth, make it their business and endeavour to enforce the practice of upon mankind : namely, justice, veracity, and regard to common good.
Sida 119 - II. The constitution of human creatures, and indeed of all creatures which come under our notice, is such, as that they are capable of naturally becoming qualified for states of life, for which they were once wholly unqualified.
Sida 306 - Whereas the doctrine of the gospel appears to be, not only that he taught the efficacy of repentance, but rendered it of the efficacy which it is by what he did and suffered for us; that he obtained for us the benefit of having our repentance accepted unto eternal life; not only that he revealed to sinners that they were in a capacity of salvation, and how they might obtain it, but moreover that he put them into this capacity of salvation by what he did and suffered for them; put us into a capacity...
Sida 299 - 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.
Sida 40 - 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.