 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...ethics, however false and dangerous I consider his leading doctrines to be. Virtue he defines to be the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The last part of the definition is the most important part of the whole ; for the knowledge of this... | |
 | Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1829 - 1254 pages
...themselves ; in short, we exhort them, according to a celebrated definition of moral virtue, " to do good, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* Now this, upon our present hypothesis, is practical preaching. Will it then issue in the practice of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 418 pages
...dangerous I consider his leading doctrines to be. Virtue he defines to be the doing good to mankind iu obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The last part of the definition is the most important part of the whole ; for the knowledge of this... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 406 pages
...cold indifference. ' Virtue,' as Mr Paley, in the words of the bishop of Carlisle, § defines it, ' is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The " good of mankind," therefore, is the subject, the " will of God " the rule, and " everlasting... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 780 pages
...Smith refers it to the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Good to mankind in obedience to the Will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our fellowcreatures... | |
 | George Combe - 1830 - 732 pages
...but is also an adherent of the selfish system, under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness \\." According to this doctrine, " the will of God is our rule, but private happiness our motive,"... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 792 pages
...the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Goodto mankind in obedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness" Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our jfelloiccreatures;... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 784 pages
...Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defmes Virtue to he " The Doing Good to mankind in ohedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumherland, in his Latvs of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 386 pages
...in civil society ; 2. That vice has no advantage over virtue, even in this world. CHAP. VII. VIRTUE. Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. In this definition, the 'good of mankind' is the subject ; the ' will of God,' the rule; and ' everlasting... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 624 pages
...advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. „ CHAPTER VII. Virtue. ^ . •>• fmrf for the sake of > everlasting happiness.*) *• A According to whicli definition, "the good of... | |
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the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
