The Works of Joseph Butler ...: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, by Dr Kippis; : with a Preface, Giving Some Account of His Character and Writings,Walker and Greig, 1813 - Sermons, English |
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... regard himself , his own body , as a living " temple of the Holy Ghost , " * and therefore , no more than the other , to be profaned or desecrated by any thing that defileth or is impure ; could it be truly said of such a one that he ...
... regard himself , his own body , as a living " temple of the Holy Ghost , " * and therefore , no more than the other , to be profaned or desecrated by any thing that defileth or is impure ; could it be truly said of such a one that he ...
Page xx
... regard should be had to the education of the lower people here , than in places where they are born slaves of power , and to be made slaves of superstition : ” + meaning evidently in this place , by the general term superstition , the ...
... regard should be had to the education of the lower people here , than in places where they are born slaves of power , and to be made slaves of superstition : ” + meaning evidently in this place , by the general term superstition , the ...
Page xxvi
... regard to our own high interest and happiness , to conform to it in all situations and events . Human nature is not simple and uniform , but made up of several parts ; and we can have no just idea of it as a system or constitution ...
... regard to our own high interest and happiness , to conform to it in all situations and events . Human nature is not simple and uniform , but made up of several parts ; and we can have no just idea of it as a system or constitution ...
Page xxvii
... regard to the methods by which'they are to be obtained : But the meaning must be , that virtue consists in the due regulation and subjection of all the other appetites and affections to the superior faculty of conscience ; BY THE EDITOR ...
... regard to the methods by which'they are to be obtained : But the meaning must be , that virtue consists in the due regulation and subjection of all the other appetites and affections to the superior faculty of conscience ; BY THE EDITOR ...
Page xxx
... regard to their own real good , but that they have not enough ; that benevolence is not more at variance with , or unfriendly to , self - love , than any other particular affection is ; and that - by consulting the happiness of others a ...
... regard to their own real good , but that they have not enough ; that benevolence is not more at variance with , or unfriendly to , self - love , than any other particular affection is ; and that - by consulting the happiness of others a ...
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Page 6 - 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.
Page 309 - 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 my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 317 - And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
Page 238 - Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Page lix - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals, for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Page 240 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying ; Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Page xxviii - 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
Page 305 - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Page 37 - But the only distinct meaning of that word is, stated, fixed, or settled: since what is natural as much requires, and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once. And from hence it must, follow, that persons...
Page 215 - And as, it is owned, the whole scheme of Scripture is not yet understood, so, if it ever comes to be understood, before the restitution of all things,* and without miraculous interpositions, it must be in the same way as natural knowledge is come at, by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing and pursuing intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world.