The Law of Love and Love as a Law: Or, Christian EthicsC. Scribner, 1871 - 400 pages |
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activity affections appetites attain become benevolence Bishop Butler cause CHAPTER character Chemical Affinity child choice claim command common condition conscience consciousness constitution convergence and unity desire distinction dition divine enjoyment essential evil faculties freedom give ground of obligation habits happiness Hence higher highest holiness human impulse individual intel intellect involved justice labor law of love legislation mand marriage McCosh means ment moral ideas Moral Law moral nature Moral Reason Moral Science motive natural right ness obey object obligation to choose original ourselves parent perfect person philosophy physical possible principle promote punishment question quire rational love regard relation require responsibility rights and duties Sabbath sake Scriptures secure seek sensibility simply society sphere spirit spontaneous subordinate summum bonum suppose supreme end things tion truth ultimate end utilitarianism violation virtue volition wholly WILLIAMS COLLEGE wisdom wrong
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Page 97 - Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure ; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Page 309 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 138 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Page 138 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 270 - We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, ' that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed...
Page 158 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 166 - For, from our very faculty of habits, passive impressions, by being repeated, grow weaker. Thoughts, by often passing through the mind, are felt less sensibly : being accustomed to danger, begets intrepidity, ie lessens fear ; to distress, lessens the passion of pity ; to instances of others' mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our own.
Page 344 - Commandments, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself.
Page 183 - The natural and active sense of property pervades the foundations of social improvement. It leads to the cultivation of the earth, the institution of government, the establishment of justice, the acquisition of the comforts of life, the growth of the useful arts, the spirit of commerce, the productions of taste, the erections of charity, and the display of the benevolent affections": 2 Kent's Commentaries, 13th ed.,.
Page 197 - For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.