Modern Infidelity Considered with Respect to Its Influence on Society: In a Sermon, Preached at the Baptist Meeting, CambridgeS. Etheridge, 1801 - 55 oldal |
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abfurd affections againſt amongſt atheiſm becauſe beſt betwixt cauſe character chriſtianity confequence confider confiderable confiftent contrivance crimes darkneſs defign deftruction Deity difciples difcourfe difpofitions diftinguiſhed diſtinctions divine domeſtic effential eſtabliſhed eternal exiſtence extinguifh fafe fame fceptical fcepticiſm fenfe fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince fion firft firſt focial fociety fome fources fpecies fpeculations ftate fubject fucceffion fuch fufficient fuperftition fuperior fuppofe fupported fupreme fyftem greateſt greatneſs happineſs higheſt himſelf human iffue impoffible impreffed infi inftitution inſtead intereſt irreligion itſelf juſt laws lefs lence mankind marriage mind modern infidelity moral moſt muſt nature neceffary obfervation object occafions oppofite paffions philofophers pleaſures poffeffing poffible Polybius preſent profeffed profeffion profpect puniſhments purpoſe purſuit reafon refpect refult religion reſtraint revelation ſcale ſelf ſenſe ſhall ſpirit ſtate ſtep ſtill ſuch ſufferings ſyſtem taſte tenderneſs thefe themſelves theſe principles thofe thoſe tion truth univerſe uſeful vanity vice virtue virtuous wiſdom worſhip
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24. oldal - ... not because they are just, but because they are new: the more flagitious, the more subversive of morals, the more alarming to the wise and good, the more welcome to men who estimate their literary powers by the mischief they produce, and who consider the anxiety and terror they impress...
17. oldal - Though it is confessed, great and splendid actions are not the ordinary employment of life, but must, from their nature, be reserved for high and eminent occasions ; yet that system is essentially defective, which leaves no room for their production.
12. oldal - It may be assumed as a maxim, that no person can be required to act contrary to his greatest good, or his highest interest, comprehensively viewed in relation to the whole duration of his being. It is often our duty to forego our own interest partially, to sacrifice a smaller pleasure for the sake of a greater, to incur a present evil in pursuit of a distant good of more consequence : in a word, to arbitrate amongst interfering claims of inclination is the moral arithmetic of human life.
18. oldal - ... powerful effect in refining the moral taste. Composed of the richest elements, it embraces, in the character of a beneficent Parent and almighty Ruler, whatever is venerable in wisdom, whatever is awful in authority, whatever is touching in goodness.
16. oldal - ... moment, and who stakes the whole happiness of his being on the events of this vain and fleeting life. If he be ever impelled to the performance of great achievements in a good cause, it must be solely by the hope of fame ; a motive which, besides that it makes virtue the servant of opinion, usually grows weaker at the approach of death; and which, however it may surmount the love of existence in the...
19. oldal - ... blended with many imperfections, and seen under many limitations. It is beheld only in detached and separate portions, nor ever appears in any one character whole and entire. So that when, in imitation of the Stoics, we wish to form out of these fragments the notion of a perfectly wise and good man, we know it is a mere fiction of the mind, without any real being in whom it is embodied and realized.
55. oldal - Where is the wife ? Where- is the fcribe ? Where is the difputer '* of this world...
41. oldal - ... mental parricide ; but first, as far as is consistent with the claims of those who are immediately committed to our care, to do good to all men ; secondly, to exercise a jurisdiction and control over the private affections, so as to prohibit their indulgence, whenever it would be attended with manifest detriment to the whole. Thus every part of our nature is brought into action ; all the practical principles of the human heart find an element to move in, each in its different sort and manner...
47. oldal - ... the support it ministers to social order, the stability it confers on government and laws, is a subordinate species of advantage which we should have continued to enjoy, without reflecting on its cause, but for the development of deistical principles, and the experiment which has been made of their effects in a neighbouring country.
17. oldal - ... of kindred excellence. Combine the frequent and familiar perpetration of atrocious deeds with the dearth of great and generous actions, and you have the exact picture of that condition of society which completes the degradation of the species — the frightful contrast of dwarfish virtues and gigantic vices, where every thing...