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८८ abſolutely Abſurdity Abuſe Action Affection againſt almoſt alſo Anſwer Appetites Aſſiſtance Balaam becauſe Behaviour Benevolence Buſineſs Cafe Caſes Cauſe cerning Character Circumſtances Compaffion Compaſſion Confcience Confideration confidered Conſequence conſiſts Conſtitution Converſation Courſe Creature Defire Degree Deſign diftinct diftinguiſh Diſpoſition Diſtreſs eaſy Enjoyment Exceſs Exerciſe expreſs faid fame fection Fellow-creatures fince firſt fome Friendſhip fuch fure Good-will Goodneſs Gratification Happineſs hath Heart himſelf Humane Nature Injury Inſtances Intereſt intirely itſelf juſt Kind laſt leaſt leſs likewiſe Love manifeſt Mankind meerly Mind Miſery Moab moral moſt muſt Neighbour neral neſs Object Obſervation Occaſion ourſelves Paffion particular Paſſion Perſons plainly pleaſe Pleaſure poſitive poſſible Principle publick Queſtion racters raiſed Reaſon Reflection Reſentment reſpect ſame ſay ſcarce ſee Self-love ſelves Senſe Serm ſerve ſeveral ſhall ſhew ſhould ſome ſomewhat ſpeak ſtand ſuch thing ſuppoſe ſurely Temper themſelves ther theſe things thoſe tion ture Uſe utmoſt Vice Virtue World
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Page 257 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 170 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 259 - ... of whom, and through whom, and to whom are all things...
Page 111 - 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 271 - ... then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun...
Page 276 - 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.
Page 134 - The indignation raised by cruelty and injustice, and the desire of having it punished, which persons unconcerned would feel, is by no means malice. No, it is resentment against vice and wickedness : it is one of the common bonds, by which society is held together; a fellow-feeling, which each individual has in behalf of the whole species, as well as of himself.
Page 274 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Page 39 - Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide ; the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature...