An Outline of a System of Natural TheologyW. Pickering, 1840 - 448 pages Compares in rhyme the coats people wear to the coverings of a variety of animals. |
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Page 361 - A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway...
Page 331 - ... with an apparent design to induce us to act so and so, then he not only dispenses happiness and misery, but also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature, to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction ; this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our...
Page 332 - It is that, which all ages and all countries have made profession of in public : it is that, which every man you meet puts on the show of: it is that, which the primary and fundamental laws of all civil constitutions over the face of the earth make it their business and endeavour to enforce the practice of upon mankind : namely, justice, veracity, and regard to common good.
Page 426 - So long rever'd, so long reputed wise, Is weak ; with rank knight-errantries o'errun. Why beats thy bosom with illustrious dreams Of self-exposure, laudable, and great ? Of gallant enterprise, and glorious death ? Die for thy country ! — Thou romantic fool ! Seize, seize the plank thyself, and let her sink : Thy country ! what to thee ? — The Godhead, what ? (I speak with awe !) tho...
Page 332 - It is manifest great part of common language, and of common behaviour over the world, is formed upon supposition of such a moral faculty ; whether called conscience, moral reason, moral sense, or Divine reason...
Page 331 - Vain is the ridicule with which one foresees some persons will divert themselves upon finding lesser pains considered as instances of divine punishment. There is no possibility of answering or evading the general thing here intended without denying all final causes. For final causes being admitted, the pleasures and pains now mentioned must be admitted too as instances of them.
Page 330 - An Author of Nature being supposed, it is not so much a deduction of reason as a matter of experience, that we are thus under his government ; under his government in the same sense as we are under the government of civil magistrates. Because the annexing pleasure to some actions and pain to others, in our power to do or forbear, and giving notice of this appointment beforehand to those whom it concerns, is the proper formal notion of government.
Page 361 - And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord ? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
Page 330 - ... consequences which we were beforehand informed of uniformly to follow — we may learn, that we are at present...
Page 421 - Which relish fruits unripen'd by the sun, Make their days various ; various as the dyes On the dove's neck, which wanton in his rays.