 | Jonathan Edwards - 1829 - 778 pages
...Adam Smith refers it to the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Good to mankind in obedience to...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our fellowcreatures... | |
 | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1829 - 1252 pages
...themselves ; in short, we exhort them, according to a celebrated definition of moral virtue, " to do good, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* Now this, upon our present hypothesis, is practical preaching. Will it then issue in the practice of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 418 pages
...dangerous I consider his leading doctrines to be. Virtue he defines to be the doing good to mankind iu obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The last part of the definition is the most important part of the whole ; for the knowledge of this... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 780 pages
...Adam Smith refers it to the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Good to mankind in obedience to...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our fellowcreatures... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 732 pages
...but is also an adherent of the selfish system, under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness \\." According to this doctrine, " the will of God is our rule, but private happiness our motive,"... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 406 pages
...cold indifference. ' Virtue,' as Mr Paley, in the words of the bishop of Carlisle, ý defines it, ' is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The " good of mankind," therefore, is the subject, the " will of God " the rule, and " everlasting... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 790 pages
...the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Goodto mankind in obedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness" Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our jfelloiccreatures;... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 784 pages
...Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defmes Virtue to he " The Doing Good to mankind in ohedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumherland, in his Latvs of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 374 pages
...society ; 2. That vice has no advantage over virtue, even in this world. CHAP. VII. VIRTUE. Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. In this definition, the 'good of mankind' is the subject ; the ' will of God,' the rule; and ' everlasting... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 690 pages
...virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIHTUE is " the doing good to manhind, cessary to show how well these things are wrapped up, so as to form a mass w According to which definition, " the good of mankind" is the subject; the " will of God," the rule... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
