Sermons Upon Several Practical Subjects ...J. Watts; and sold by him, and by B. Dod, 1749 - 328 pages |
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... Action we perform . Even thofe , which are moft difinterested , if pursued to their Fountain - head , will be ... Actions by the mere Pleasure and Delight we take in them , in either of thefe Cafes , the Principle of Self - Love ...
... Action we perform . Even thofe , which are moft difinterested , if pursued to their Fountain - head , will be ... Actions by the mere Pleasure and Delight we take in them , in either of thefe Cafes , the Principle of Self - Love ...
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... Actions ? The Fitness , it may be faid perhaps , or the Reasonableness of the Thing . But does Fitness or Reasonableness lay you under a Constraint ? Are you abfolutely obliged , by a Phy- fical Neceffity , to do every thing that you ...
... Actions ? The Fitness , it may be faid perhaps , or the Reasonableness of the Thing . But does Fitness or Reasonableness lay you under a Constraint ? Are you abfolutely obliged , by a Phy- fical Neceffity , to do every thing that you ...
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... Actions of Beneficence and Compaffion , and to poftpone our own Intereft to that of others ? Are thefe derived all from the Principle of Self - Love ? As fure , as any Action we perform . For what is there diffonant , or contra- dictory ...
... Actions of Beneficence and Compaffion , and to poftpone our own Intereft to that of others ? Are thefe derived all from the Principle of Self - Love ? As fure , as any Action we perform . For what is there diffonant , or contra- dictory ...
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... Actions from fine speculative Principles , beautiful in Idea , and very fit to be admired , but much too refi- ned for Practice . The Love of ourselves , by the great Abuse of it , is , it seems , grown so odious to us , that we cannot ...
... Actions from fine speculative Principles , beautiful in Idea , and very fit to be admired , but much too refi- ned for Practice . The Love of ourselves , by the great Abuse of it , is , it seems , grown so odious to us , that we cannot ...
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... either mediately , or immediately , to affect us in every moral Action we perform . And from hence it is plain , that those , who reproach Christians with acting II . acting on a mean and unworthy Principle , 20 Self - Love the beft.
... either mediately , or immediately , to affect us in every moral Action we perform . And from hence it is plain , that those , who reproach Christians with acting II . acting on a mean and unworthy Principle , 20 Self - Love the beft.
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Page 274 - Remember the former things of old: For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times the things that are not yet done, Saying, My counsel shall stand, And I will do all my pleasure...
Page 44 - And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things : but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Page 127 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem ? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 60 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 120 - To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak : I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Page 99 - And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them ? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.
Page 313 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God ; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man; but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed.
Page 27 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Page 169 - All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, my lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Page 310 - My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations ; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.