...authority has told us that ' the law and the prophets,' or the substance of true religion, consist ' in doing to others as we would that others should do to us ;' and we have consequently been taught to consider those аз the preachers, who most deserve our gratitude...

...inconsistent with the precepts of our holy religion, which command us to love our enemies, and to do to others as we would that others should do to us ; and Christians, as they advance in light and knowledge, will, ere long, attain to the purity of the first...

...6. JUNE, 1818. Vol. VI. WHAT IS KELIOION WE may answer in general, that religion consists in amoral resemblance of God ; in a willing, a chosen, a conscientious...— our wills and affections, to His service. All beside this, which belongs to religion, conies under the denomination either of means, or of motives....

...conformity to His commands, as our supreme rule .of life, and our highest happiness ; in supreme tove of God ; in doing to others as we would that others...keeping ourselves unspotted from the world, the seat pf religion, is the hear: and this emphatically is the will of God, even our sancti/ication ; ft separation...

...is a principle at least equally universal ; and that the precept of reciprocal consideration, or of doing to others as we would that others should do to us, " whether it is inculcated by Divine Revelation, or merely by the natural instinct in man, of knowing...

...equally interested, and equally able to sustain it, remained idle and unconcerned. It would not be doing to others as we would that others should do to us. '•' Why, then," I proposed to myself, " ought I to stand off and aside, as a mere spectator, with...

...own accord. This Is true of the great Christian maxims, of loving our neighbours as ourselves ; of doing to others as we would that others should do to us; and (as will appear, 1 hope, in the sequel of this discourse) of that of the text. These maxims being well...

...own ac. cord. This is true of the great Christian maxims, of loving our neighbours as ourselves ; of doing to others as we would that others should do to us; and (as will appear, I hope, in the sequel of this discourse) of that of the text. These maxims being well...

...own accord. This is true of the great Christian maxims, of loving our neighbours as ourselves ; of doing to others as we would that others should do to us; and (as will appear, I hope, in the sequel of this discourse) of that of the text. These maxims being well...

...seem too often to be nearly of the opinion of Captain Cook's culprit, that the Christian obligation of doing to others as we would that others should do to us, does not apply to the case of Europeans among savages. I might bring together innumerable illustrations...