The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1809 |
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... virtue and holiness to the creature . This is a communication of God's holiness ; so that hereby the creature partakes of God's own mora ! excellency ; which is properly the beauty of the divine nature . And as God delights in his own ...
... virtue and holiness to the creature . This is a communication of God's holiness ; so that hereby the creature partakes of God's own mora ! excellency ; which is properly the beauty of the divine nature . And as God delights in his own ...
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... virtue of generosity . If by selfishness be meant , a dis- position in any being to regard himself ; this is no otherwise vicious or unbecoming , than as one is less than a multitude ; and so the public weal is of greater value than his ...
... virtue of generosity . If by selfishness be meant , a dis- position in any being to regard himself ; this is no otherwise vicious or unbecoming , than as one is less than a multitude ; and so the public weal is of greater value than his ...
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... virtue and every thing that is morally good and excellent in them . OBJECTION 3. To what has been supposed , that God makes himself his end in this way , viz . in seeking that his glory and excellent perfection should be known ...
... virtue and every thing that is morally good and excellent in them . OBJECTION 3. To what has been supposed , that God makes himself his end in this way , viz . in seeking that his glory and excellent perfection should be known ...
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... virtues are truly valuable , they are worthy that we should thus approve others ' esteem , and disapprove their contempt of them . And the case is the same with respect to any being's own qualities or attributes . If he highly es- teems ...
... virtues are truly valuable , they are worthy that we should thus approve others ' esteem , and disapprove their contempt of them . And the case is the same with respect to any being's own qualities or attributes . If he highly es- teems ...
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... Virtue , by such of the late philosophers as seem to be in chief repute , is placed in public affection or general benevo- lence . And if the essence of virtue lies primarily in this , then the love of virtue itself is virtuous no ...
... Virtue , by such of the late philosophers as seem to be in chief repute , is placed in public affection or general benevo- lence . And if the essence of virtue lies primarily in this , then the love of virtue itself is virtuous no ...
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