On the Love of Praise: A Sermon, Delivered Sept; 23, 1810, Being the Sunday Preceding Commencement (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from On the Love of Praise: A Sermon, Delivered Sept; 23, 1810, Being the Sunday Preceding Commencement

The supreme motive, in the heart of every good man, to honorable and worthy actions, to goodness, to virtue, and universal holiness is, the pure love of goodness, of holiness, and of virtue. The Spirit of God, however, has not disdained to employ, as an auxiliary principle of duty, that love of praise, or of standing well in the opinion of our fellow men, which, though common to mankind, is often felt most sensibly by generous and noble minds.

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Excerpt from On the Love of Praise: A Sermon, Delivered Sept; 23, 1810, Being the Sunday Preceding Commencement

Whatsoever things are of good report, - if there be any praise, think of these things... Phil. iv. 8.

The supreme motive, in the heart of every good man, to honorable and worthy actions, to goodness, to virtue, and universal holiness is, the pure love of goodness, of holiness, and of virtue. The Spirit of God, however, has not disdained to employ, as an auxiliary principle of duty, that love of praise, or of standing well in the opinion of our fellow men, which, though common to mankind, is often felt most sensibly by generous and noble minds.

As virtue presents to us only what is amiable in disposition, what is honorable and manly in conduct, or what is useful to society, it is not wonderful that it should be the object of general approbation.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.