...commandments ; or, to forget him, and thus merit for himself punishment. God clearly explained to him what he ought to do, and what he ought not to do ; and shewed him beforehand the happy consequences of obedience, and the punishment of disobedience. Man...

...fellowcreatures. His parents, as soon as understanding begins to dawn in him, are employed in prescribing what he ought to do and what he ought not to do ; his masters, in filling his mind with the precepts, and forming it to the example, of the greatest...

...merely as the mouth-piece of the rest. They, virtually, take their Master to task. They judge for Him what He ought to do, and what He ought not to do. They refuse compliance with His commands : obedience to His authority. Their hearts, no doubt, told...

...matter. So far from being, as Dr. Sharp declares, " nothing else but a man's judgment or persuasion concerning moral good or evil, or concerning what...ought to do, and what he ought not to do, and what he may lawfully do," it is a faculty •which remains at rest, and of which we are entirely unconscious...

...emergencies and situations in which he is placed, but also what will be right, and what will be wrong; — what he ought to do, and what he ought not to do. The subject is one that ought to be thoroughly taught to every child. Clear and decided distinctions'...

...wisdom, and without power 1 " Jesus Christ, from the first moment of His conception, knew perfectly well what He ought to do and what He ought not to do ; what He ought to say and not to say ; all indeed, that should happen. His object in leading this...

...rising, similarly as our knowledge of mathematics is extending : man is coming to perceive more clearly what he ought to do and what he ought not to do, and is striving more to obey the imperious ought But while actions must always have some quality, and there...

...hath sot conscience in the midst of everv reasonable soul, as a light whereby lie may discern and know what he ought to do, and what he ought not to do. Therefore forasmuch as it behoveth thee to be occupied in such things as pertain to the law; it is...

...once taken in hand ; people not only talk about him, but talk to him, and criticise him, and tell him what he ought to do, and what he ought not to do. Society there, is a village tea-table of educated people. Andersen, who had come up from poverty, and...

...is conscious that in every particular action, no matter how small, there is a voice which tells him what he ought to do, and what he ought not to do ; or what he ought to have done, and what he ought not to have done. He does not merely discern, by...