 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1740 - 488 pages
...Cafe itfelf, prior to external Command. Pofitive Duties do not arife out of the Nature of the Cafe; but from external Command : Nor would they be Duties at all, were it not for fuch Command, received from Him whofe Creatures and Subjects we are. But the Manner in * This is the... | |
 | John Feltham - 1799 - 146 pages
...precepts are precepts the reason of which we do not see. Moral duties arise out of the nature of fhe case itself) prior to external command. Positive duties...received from Him whose creatures and subjects we are. — Ibid. xc. .War is the sink of all injustice.-- Bergerac. . xrn. • Human misery is to divine mercy,... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin - Baptism - 1806 - 352 pages
...cafe itfelf, prior to external command ; pofitive duties do not arife out of the nature of the cafe, but from external command ; nor would they be duties at all, were it not for fuch command, received from Him whofe creatures and fubjects we are."* Our obligations to precepts... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 268 pages
...these are positive precepts, and are built on reasons which we do not altogether comprehend. Thus MORAL duties arise out of the nature of the case itself,...external command ; nor would they be duties at all, but for such command. From this difference between what is POSITIVE and what is MORAL in religion,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 270 pages
...these are positive precepts, and are built on reasons which we do not altogether comprehend. Thus MORAL duties arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command. POSITIyE duties do not arise out of the nature of the case, but from external command ; nor would they... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1810 - 488 pages
...has commanded them. — 2. Moral are those, the reasons ot which we see, and the duties of •which arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command. 3. //';//:,•,.•;. are generally applied to those inventions of men, or means of honouring God,... | |
 | Charles Buck - Theology - 1815 - 546 pages
...superior has commanded them. — 2. Moral are those, the reasons of which we see, and the duties of which arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command. — 3 Human, are generally applied to those inventions of men, or means of honouring God, which are... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...reasons of which we see ; positive precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we do not see. f Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself,...external command. Positive duties do not arise out of the na* John iii. 5. sf This is the distinction between moral and positive precepts, considered respectively... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Analogy (Religion) - 1819 - 256 pages
...the reason of which we see; positive precepts are precepts the reason of which we do not see.* Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command. Positive duties Ao not arise out of the nature of the case, but from external •Chap. t. fJohniii. 5. $ Tills ii the... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...the reason of which we see; positive precepts are precepts the reason of which we do not see.* Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself,...arise out of the nature of the case, but from external * Chap. v. f John iii. 5. command; nor would they be duties at all, were it not Tor such command, received... | |
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Moral precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we see: positive precepts are precepts, the reasons of which we do not see.* Moral duties arise out of the nature of the case itself, prior to external command. Positive duties do not arise out of the... 
