This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ... Professor Hutcheson, late of Glasgow, places Conscience in a different light. In his Essay on the Passions, he observes, That we have several senses, or natural avenues of pleasure and pain, besidesthe five external senses. One of these he terms, " The public sense, whereby we are naturally pained at the misery of a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ... Professor Hutcheson, late of Glasgow, places Conscience in a different light. In his Essay on the Passions, he observes, That we have several senses, or natural avenues of pleasure and pain, besidesthe five external senses. One of these he terms, " The public sense, whereby we are naturally pained at the misery of a fellow-creature, and pleased at his deliverance from it. And every man, says he, has a moral sense, whereby he approves of benevolence, and disapproves of cruelty. Yea, he is uneasy, when he himself has done a cruel action, and pleased when he has done a generous one." 9. All this is, in some sense, undoubtedly true. But it is not true, that either the public or the moral sense, (both of which are included in the term Conscience, ) is now natural to man. Whatever may have been the case at first, while man was in a state of innocence, both the one and the other is now a branch of that supernatural gift of God, which we usually style preventing grace. But the Professor docs not at all agree with this. He sets God wholly out of the question. God has nothing to do with his scheme of virtue, from the beginning to the end. So that, to say the truth, his scheme of virtue is Atheism all over. This is refinement indeed! Many have excluded God out of the world: he excludes him even out of religion!. 10. But do we not mistake him 1 Do we take his meaning right? That it may be plain enough, that no man may mistake him, he proposes this question: "What if a man in doing a virtuous, that is, a generous action, in helping a fellow-creature, has an eye to God. either as commanding, or as promising to reward it? Then, (says he, ) so far as he has an eye to God, the virtue of the action is lost. Whatever actions spring from an eye to the recompense ...
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