The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Character and Writings of the AuthorScott, Webster, & Geary, 1838 - 303 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxiii
... actions in themselves , and to disapprove of others . That this principle will of course have some influence on our behaviour , at least at times , will hardly be disputed : but the particular influence which it ought to have , the pre ...
... actions in themselves , and to disapprove of others . That this principle will of course have some influence on our behaviour , at least at times , will hardly be disputed : but the particular influence which it ought to have , the pre ...
الصفحة xxiv
... actions , considered as of good or ill desert , will hereafter be confirmed by the unerring judgment of God ; when virtue and happiness , vice and misery , whose ideas are now so closely connect- ed , shall be indissolubly united , and ...
... actions , considered as of good or ill desert , will hereafter be confirmed by the unerring judgment of God ; when virtue and happiness , vice and misery , whose ideas are now so closely connect- ed , shall be indissolubly united , and ...
الصفحة xxix
... actions ; and these consequences we are enabled to foresee . Therefore , that our happiness or misery in a future world may depend on our own actions also , and that rewards or punishments hereafter may follow our good or ill behaviour ...
... actions ; and these consequences we are enabled to foresee . Therefore , that our happiness or misery in a future world may depend on our own actions also , and that rewards or punishments hereafter may follow our good or ill behaviour ...
الصفحة xxxvi
... actions , considered as virtuous and vicious ; and these conse .. quences we are enabled to foresee . It might have been imagined , before consulting experience , that after we had rendered ourselves liable to misery by our own ill ...
... actions , considered as virtuous and vicious ; and these conse .. quences we are enabled to foresee . It might have been imagined , before consulting experience , that after we had rendered ourselves liable to misery by our own ill ...
الصفحة xl
... actions does in- deed show us the identity of ourselves , or gives us a certain assurance that we are the same persons or living agents now , which we were at the time to which our re- membrance can look back : but still we should be ...
... actions does in- deed show us the identity of ourselves , or gives us a certain assurance that we are the same persons or living agents now , which we were at the time to which our re- membrance can look back : but still we should be ...
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الصفحة 185 - ... how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
الصفحة 217 - And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation ; and not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
الصفحة 82 - Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me; For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
الصفحة 83 - LORD hath not defied ? for from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations. Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel ? let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his...
الصفحة 241 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
الصفحة 175 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
الصفحة 160 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
الصفحة 72 - 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...
الصفحة 91 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived?