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... Virtue Showing Wherein the Essence of True Virtue Consists Whatever controversies and variety of opinions there are about the nature of virtue , yet all ( excepting some skeptics , who deny any real difference between virtue and vice ) ...
... Virtue Showing Wherein the Essence of True Virtue Consists Whatever controversies and variety of opinions there are about the nature of virtue , yet all ( excepting some skeptics , who deny any real difference between virtue and vice ) ...
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... virtue primarily consists in that affection of heart to Being , which is exercised in benevolence , or an inclination to its good , then God's virtue is so extended as to include a propen- sity ... virtue . The Nature of True Virtue 103 ยท
... virtue primarily consists in that affection of heart to Being , which is exercised in benevolence , or an inclination to its good , then God's virtue is so extended as to include a propen- sity ... virtue . The Nature of True Virtue 103 ยท
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... virtue is primarily and first of all the consequence of itself . For this makes virtue primarily prior to itself . Nor can virtue primarily consist in gratitude ; or one Being's benevolence to another for his benevolence to him ...
... virtue is primarily and first of all the consequence of itself . For this makes virtue primarily prior to itself . Nor can virtue primarily consist in gratitude ; or one Being's benevolence to another for his benevolence to him ...
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The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution | 3 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
Showing How they Sought out a place | 20 |
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