Moral Essayes: Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties, Volumes 3-4Sam. Manship, 1696 - Christian ethics |
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Page 2 - When a man dies, he lofes not only what he called his wealth, but the firmament, the fun, the ftars, the air, the earth, and all the reft of nature : he lofes his body, and all thofe fenfations that...
Page 68 - Behold then by this means all men differ one with another; and if he [Hobbes] who has said that men are born in a state and condition of war, and that each man is naturally an enemy to all other men, had a mind only to represent by these words the disposition of the hearts of men, one towards another, without pretense of passing it for legitimate and just; he would have said something conforming to truth and experience, as that which is maintained is contrary to reason and justice.
Page 142 - Love, and that we fhould bt careful to preferve it by giving it Nourifhment. This Command he has made to all ChriftianS in the Perfons of the Priefts of the Ancient Law...
Page 122 - Age there are found thofe who have pretended in this point to be able to conjoyn Piety, and the Spirit of the World together. They are not content to follow Vice, they will have...
Page 68 - It cannot possibly be imagined how there can be formed societies, commonwealths, and kingdoms out of this multitude of people full of passions, so contrary to union, and who only endeavor the ruin of one another.