On Man: His Motives, Their Rise, Operations, Opposition, and Results, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1833 |
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... happiness , or holiness and happiness , ( for virtue and holiness mean much the same thing , viz . the conscientious discharge of our duty to God , our neighbour , and ourselves , ) are not so closely allied as is here inti- mated ; let ...
... happiness , or holiness and happiness , ( for virtue and holiness mean much the same thing , viz . the conscientious discharge of our duty to God , our neighbour , and ourselves , ) are not so closely allied as is here inti- mated ; let ...
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... happiness are founded . Nor is it likely that the same Being who has provided us with senses , which enable us and which prompt us to at- tend to our bodily wants , would afford us no further channel of intelligence , but suffer us to ...
... happiness are founded . Nor is it likely that the same Being who has provided us with senses , which enable us and which prompt us to at- tend to our bodily wants , would afford us no further channel of intelligence , but suffer us to ...
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... happiness of His creatures . Complex modes , and abstract qualities , are better known by the attentive exercise of reason . If we extend our view from outward objects of sight to complex modes , and the reflex operations of our minds ...
... happiness of His creatures . Complex modes , and abstract qualities , are better known by the attentive exercise of reason . If we extend our view from outward objects of sight to complex modes , and the reflex operations of our minds ...
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... happiness , and prefer to it the gratification of our present and pressing desires . In these cases , the exercise of our deliberate judg- ment is required ; no arbitrary , irresistible influence confines our thoughts or actions to a ...
... happiness , and prefer to it the gratification of our present and pressing desires . In these cases , the exercise of our deliberate judg- ment is required ; no arbitrary , irresistible influence confines our thoughts or actions to a ...
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... happiness who does either . We are all dependent upon our heavenly Father for every thing we have or hope for , and we are not likely to promote our final good by opposing His will , and offending Him ; more especially when we call to ...
... happiness who does either . We are all dependent upon our heavenly Father for every thing we have or hope for , and we are not likely to promote our final good by opposing His will , and offending Him ; more especially when we call to ...
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Popular passages
Page 312 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 353 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Page 352 - For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man ; but he that built all things is God.
Page 320 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 333 - The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you...
Page iii - Either make the tree good and his fruit good, or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
Page 352 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Page 312 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 360 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Page 353 - For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did ; by the which we draw nigh unto God.