 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1867 - 526 σελίδες
...a healthful caution : " Perhaps divine goodness with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a bare single disposition...make the good, the faithful, the honest man happy." While it is true that inspiration declares that God is love, it should not be forgotten that it also... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 550 σελίδες
...Divine goodness, with ' which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not bo a ' bare single disposition to produce happiness ;...but a disposition to make the ' good, the faithful, tho honest man happy.' — Analogy, p. 42. any assumption of ' what God must be, and God mus£ do.'... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1869 - 372 σελίδες
...divine goodness, with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a o) bare single disposition to produce happiness ; but...disposition to ' make the good, the faithful, the honest, happy. Perhaps an infinitely perfect mind may be pleased with seeing his creatures behave suitably... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1870 - 372 σελίδες
...than is by the present. Or perhaps divine goodness, with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a bare single disposition...disposition to make the good, the faithful, the honest, happy. Perhaps an infinitely perfect mind may be pleased with seeing his creatures behave suitably... | |
 | Alvah Hovey - 1872 - 300 σελίδες
...the point in question: "Perhaps divine goodness, with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a bare single disposition...disposition to make the good, the faithful, the honest, happy. Perhaps an infinitely perfect mind may be pleased with seeing his creatures behave suitably... | |
 | Alvah Hovey - 1872 - 290 σελίδες
...the point in question: "Perhaps divine goodness, with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a bare single disposition...disposition to make the good, the faithful, the honest, happy. Perhaps an infinitely perfect mind may be pleased with seeing his creatures behave suitably... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1872 - 386 σελίδες
...single ,^,t ,(-•" -t. disposition to produce happiness ; but a disposition to make the good, tae faithful, the honest man, happy. Perhaps an infinitely perfect Mind may be pleased with seeing his crea tures behave suitably to the nature which he has given them; to the relations which he has placed... | |
 | J. Butler - 1873 - 364 σελίδες
...than is by the present. Or perhaps divine goodness, with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a bare single disposition...disposition to make the good, the faithful, the honest, happy. Perhaps an infinitely perfect mind may be pleased with seeing his creatures behave suitably... | |
 | Henry Bleckly - 1873 - 172 σελίδες
...goodness, with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a bare, simple disposition to produce happiness ; but a disposition...make the good, the faithful, the honest man happy." * Mr. L. I always hesitate in differing from Butler, but I think it a more correct representation of... | |
 | Robert Baker White - 1873 - 366 σελίδες
...happiness cannot be the chief, much less the sole, moving power of human action. " Perhaps," says Butler, " an infinitely perfect mind may be pleased with seeing his creatures behave suitably with the nature which He has given them, to the relations in which He has placed them to each other,... | |
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Or, perhaps, divine goodness, with which, if I mistake not, we make very free in our speculations, may not be a bare single disposition to produce happiness ; but a disposition to make the good, the faithful, the honest man, happy. 
