...habitual virtue. By the definition of virtue, placed at the beginning of this chapter, it appears, that the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God the rule, and everlasting happiness the motive and end of all virtue. Yet, in fact, a man shall perform many an act of virtue, without having either...

...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...

...the Author's Moral Philosophy, vol. i. chap. 7. Virtue is the doing good to. mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. In June, 1766, Paley was elected Fellow of Christ's College; and tli received the reward long due to...

...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...

...virtue, given in Gay's Preliminary Dissertations. 'Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' This combines the two opposite faults of being at once deficient and redundant ; nnd, what is still...

...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...

...habitual virtue. By the definition of virtue, placed at the beginning of this chapter, it appears, that the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God the rule, and everlasting happiness the motive and end of all virtue. Yet, in fact, a man shall perform many an act of virtue, without hawing either...

...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," which is 'just selfishness...

...in the words of the bishop of Carlisle, § defines it, ' is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will 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...

...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...