 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 790 pages
...insomuch that you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the...authority, it would absolutely govern the world. This gives us a further view of the nature of man ; shews us what course of life we were made for ; not... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 578 pages
...principles, passions and motives of action. This is its right and office: thus sacred is its authority. — Had it strength, as it has right ; had it power, as...manifest authority; it would absolutely govern the world. As in civil government, the constitution is broken in and violated by power and strength prevailing... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 584 pages
...This is its right and office: thus sacred is its authority.—Had it strength, as it has right; bad it power, as it has manifest authority; it would absolutely govern the world. As in civil government, the constitution is broken in and violated by power and strength prevailing... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1827 - 376 pages
...insomuch that you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the...authority, it would absolutely govern the world. This gives us a further view of the nature of man ; shows us what course of life we were made for ; not... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1837 - 368 pages
...strength,' (are the well known words of Bishop Butler, in his admirable Sermon on human nature,) ' as it has right ; had it power, as it has manifest authority ; it would absolutely govern the world V It is, in fact, that principle which made even the Gentiles " a law unto themselves ;" for they,... | |
 | Sir Robert Anderson - 1837 - 608 pages
...faculty of conscience to govern and preside ; and that if it had strength, as it has right ; if it had power, as it has manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world. ' Bp. Butler's Sermons. Let us take heed, then, how we do violence to this commanding principle, which... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pages
...insomuch that you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the...authority, it would absolutely govern the world. . . This gives us a further view of the nature of man; shows us what course of life we were made for; not only... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1839 - 382 pages
...thus also, prescience, or foreknowledge, and omniscience, universal knowledge. temper, and actions." " Had it strength, as it has right ; had it power, as...manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world. How often soever men violate and rebelliously refuse to submit to it, for supposed interest, which... | |
 | Daniel Denison Whedon - 1839 - 40 pages
...the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize. Beautifully did Bishop Butler affirm of conscience, that, " had it strength as it has right, had it power as it...manifest authority ; it would absolutely govern the world :" and sublimely did Hooker remark of that law whose vital principle is conscience, that " its residence... | |
 | Joseph Stordy Hodgson - 1839 - 216 pages
...temporarily dominant within him. Now, as Butler says, if conscience had strength as it has right, if it had power as it has manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world. We, then, could as accurately calculate on the actions of a man, under any given circumstances, as... | |
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... you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself: and to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution... 
