An Ethical Essay: Or, an Attempt to Enumerate the Several Duties which We Owe to God, Our Saviour, Our Neighbour and Ourselves, and the Virtues and Graces of the Christian Life; Contrasted on the Opposite Pages with Their Opposite Vices and Ill Dispositions. To Each of which are Subjoined Some Loose Notes, Imperfect Hints, and Common Observations, Serving to Illustrate, Limit, Or Enforce Them. Intended to Assist in the Important Duty of Self-examinationFoote, & Brown, prs., 1830 - 183 sider |
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Side ix
... Objects , Self - Love , A due Attention o our Words and Conversation , Govern- 66 Nature , 144 Seifishness , 6 · 145 Inattention to the Government of the Tongue , · 147 Thoughtlessness on the Sub- ment of the Tongue , 146 Thoughts on ...
... Objects , Self - Love , A due Attention o our Words and Conversation , Govern- 66 Nature , 144 Seifishness , 6 · 145 Inattention to the Government of the Tongue , · 147 Thoughtlessness on the Sub- ment of the Tongue , 146 Thoughts on ...
Side xvii
... objects by a sort of animal instinct ; and who is confined by the limitation of his faculties , which is often mistaken for wisdom , to one narrow path , from which he wanders not , simply because he is troubled by no expansive views ...
... objects by a sort of animal instinct ; and who is confined by the limitation of his faculties , which is often mistaken for wisdom , to one narrow path , from which he wanders not , simply because he is troubled by no expansive views ...
Side xx
... objects . He felt , indeed , that the course assigned to him , in Providence , was a private one , and neither sought nor desired any civil employments . But he was ever actuated by a genuine public spirit , and was always ready to give ...
... objects . He felt , indeed , that the course assigned to him , in Providence , was a private one , and neither sought nor desired any civil employments . But he was ever actuated by a genuine public spirit , and was always ready to give ...
Side xxiv
... object here , as in all things else , was the truth . He confined himself to the writers of no sect , but endeavored to derive assistance from all . Even during the last autumn and winter , he carefully perused opposing accounts of the ...
... object here , as in all things else , was the truth . He confined himself to the writers of no sect , but endeavored to derive assistance from all . Even during the last autumn and winter , he carefully perused opposing accounts of the ...
Side 15
... Object of it . The Heathen World sup- posed their Gods to be such cruel malevolent Beings , as to delight in Misery , and to be appeased by Hu- man Sacrifices . How anxious , then , ought Christians to be , that they entertain not ...
... Object of it . The Heathen World sup- posed their Gods to be such cruel malevolent Beings , as to delight in Misery , and to be appeased by Hu- man Sacrifices . How anxious , then , ought Christians to be , that they entertain not ...
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acknowledged Character Action Affections Appetites Approbation Attention avoid become Begga Behaviour believe Benevolence best laid Plans Blessing bour Bull-baiting Capacity certainly Character Charity Christian Temper Conduct consider Course Creatures criminal Degree Deists Deity Divine Doctrine Duty EDWARD AUGUSTUS HOLYOKE effectually End of Faith endeavour enjoy especially eternal Evil Exertions Faith Father Fault Favour frequently give Gospel Government Gratitude greatest Habits Happiness Heart Heaven highest holy holy Spirit Honour hope human ILL DISPOSITIONS Importance INATTENTION Indulgence infinite injurious Jesus Christ lence lest ligion live Love Mankind Meekness Mercy MISANTHROPY moral Natural Religion Neglect Neigh Neighbour never Obedience Object Obligation odious Opposition ourselves Passions perfect perfect Code Persons possessed Power Prayer Precepts promote proper Providence Pursuit Reason Rectitude Regard Repentance Revelation Saviour Scriptures Self-love Society spect suffer temned Things Thoughts tion tism Trinitarians Truth unhappy VICES AND ILL vicious Virtue virtuous whole Words World Zeal
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Side 73 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
Side ii - Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the thirtieth day of June, AD 1826, and in the fiftieth year of the independence of the United States of America, JP DABNEY, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the ' right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : — A Selection of Hymns and Psalms, for social and private worship.
Side 149 - If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Side 43 - How, and in what particular way it had this efficacy, there are not wanting persons who have endeavoured to explain ; but I do not find that the Scripture has explained it.
Side 19 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Side 173 - Thus, we repeat, He admonishes men to return to God ; to reestablish their original likeness to him ; and He, who is " the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person...
Side 161 - When he was reviled, he reviled not again. When he suffered he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Side 103 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Side 17 - And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Side 87 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.