First Principles of Ethics: Designed as a Basis for Instruction in Ethical Science in Schools and CollegesWoolworth, Ainsworth and Company, 1861 - 204 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 148 - And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
الصفحة 95 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
الصفحة 165 - But allowing that mankind hath the rule of right within himself, yet it may be asked, ' What obligations are we under to attend to and follow it ? ' I answer : it has been proved that man by his nature is a law to himself, without the particular distinct consideration of the positive sanctions of that law; the rewards and punishments which we feel, and those which from the light of reason we have ground to believe, are annexed to it. The question then carries its own answer along with it. Your obligation...
الصفحة 171 - ... of which belong to almost every course of vice, will soon be convinced that the man of virtue is by no means upon a disadvantage in this respect. How many instances are there in which men feel and own and cry aloud under the chains of vice with which they are enthralled, and which yet they will not shake off ! How many instances, in which persons manifestly go through more pains and self-denial to gratify a vicious passion, than would have been necessary to the conquest of it ! To this is to...
الصفحة 166 - ... what is wanting is only that he honestly attend to it ;" and, in enforcing the authority of this natural monitor, " your obligation to obey this law is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide— the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature....
الصفحة 170 - ... perplexity, vexation and inconvenience. And both the virtues and vices which have been now mentioned, do in a manner equally imply in them regards of one kind or another to our fellow-creatures. And with respect to restraint and confinement: whoever will consider the restraints from fear and shame, the dissimulation, mean arts of concealment, servile compliances, one or other of which belong to almost every course of vice; will soon be convinced that the man of virtue is by no means upon a disadvantage...
الصفحة 159 - Englishmen, while they practise the purchase and sale of slaves, can much enforce or demand the law of doing to others as we would that they should do to us.
الصفحة 30 - We have before proved," says the Apostle Paul, " both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin," ie, we have proved from the records of the court of heaven, that all have been found guilty and sentenced to die eternally. There it is written, " there is none righteous, no, not one.
الصفحة 95 - But a religion which laid down the broad rule of duty, that " all things whatsoever we would that men should do to us, we should do even so to them," could not have sanctioned slavery in any way.
الصفحة 141 - For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.