The Nature of True Virtue
Jonathan Edwards
Public DomainDevotional
Chapters 29
- benevolence to being in general, and comes to the same thing. For he ≈ 3 min
- moral or spiritual beauty primarily consists. Yea, spiritual beauty ≈ 3 min
- it is primarily on this account they are beautiful, viz. that they imply ≈ 3 min
- benevolence, is the ground, not only of benevolence, but ≈ 3 min
- primarily consisting in consent, and a benevolent propensity of heart ≈ 3 min
- consisting in general benevolence, who has not that temper himself. I ≈ 5 min
- to promote the happiness of the being towards whom it is exercised, ≈ 3 min
- our own, independently; yet we may be the instruments of ≈ 6 min
- independent on it, as the case may be, will be against general ≈ 3 min
- only liable, as the case may be, to issue in enmity to being in general, ≈ 3 min
- regard to being in general, have a tendency to oppose the supreme ≈ 21 min
- nature, which God has fixed, or an instinct he has given to mankind; ≈ 6 min
- affects the mind more (other things being equal) when taken notice ≈ 3 min
- requisite, in order to this inferior beauty; but also some relation or ≈ 3 min
- proportion, not only takes place in material and external things, but ≈ 12 min
- beauty, it appears, that the disposition, which consists in a ≈ 6 min
- him. Which comes only to this, that self-love is a man's liking, and ≈ 3 min
- commonly signifies a man's regard to his confined private self, or ≈ 9 min
- from self-love, might argue in the same way, and with equal reason, ≈ 3 min
- angry with those who hate them, from the natural influence of self- ≈ 3 min
- there is the exercise of some kind of moral sense—as it is granted ≈ 3 min
- all mankind, consists in a natural relish of the beauty of virtue, and ≈ 3 min
- chosen as a medium to prove a sense and determination to delight in ≈ 24 min
- which passes between us and others, from a determination of the ≈ 3 min
- disapprobation of natural conscience, is the sense of desert which ≈ 56 min
- goodness of its supreme Ruler, that these natural principles, for the ≈ 3 min
- that they tend several ways to restrain vice, and prevent many acts of ≈ 17 min
- at liberty, and in an extensive manner, without being restrained to a ≈ 3 min
- uniformity and natural agreement there is between one thing and ≈ 10 min
| Author | Jonathan Edwards |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | Colonial |
| Categories | Devotional · Christian Classics · Theology |
| Chapters | 29 |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |
| Status | Public Domain |
Public Domain.