Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.Joseph Butler
Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
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The love of our neighbour is the same with charity, benevolence, or goodwill it is an affection to the good and happiness of our fellow-creatures.
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The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.
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God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.
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