The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy: With Additions and Improvements

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Collins, Keese, 1835
 

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Page 129 - That charity does not consist in giving money, but in benevolence, philanthropy, love to all mankind, goodness of heart," &c. Hear St. James : " If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace ; be ye warmed and filled ; notwithstanding ye
Page 67 - sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men : as free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Page 102 - shall perform unto the Lord thine oaths. But I say unto• you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne ; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool ; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt ihou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair
Page 67 - but also for conscience's sake. For, for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.
Page 5 - Drunkenness is repeatedly forbidden by St. Paul: " Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess." " Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness." "Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 36 - Which belief receives great confirmation from the following arguments.— The sabbath is described as a sign between God and the people of Israel:—"Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant ; it is a sign between me and the people of Israel for
Page 182 - right;" and to the Colossians, " Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing unto the Lord."* By the Jewish law, disobedience to parents was in some extreme cases capital. Deut. xxi. 18. * Upon which two phrases, " this is right," and,
Page 38 - may be observed of the apostolic decree recorded in the fifteenth chapter of the Acts :— " It seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication : from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.
Page 37 - thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy gates ; that thy man servant and thy maid servant may rest as well as thou
Page 100 - explains a passage in the 144th Psalm; "Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood." The same form is retained in Scotland still. Amongst the same Jews an oath of fidelity was taken, by the servant's putting his hand under the thigh of his lord, as Eliezer did to

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