| John Penn - Great Britain - 1800 - 212 pages
...affirmed often to instance, in their possessors, the observance of the two great Christian precepts — to do to others as we would they should do to us, and to love our neighbour as ourself : p. 58. — Examples of fitness in individual characters, which... | |
| Samuel Carr - Sermons, English - 1801 - 390 pages
...our dealings, faithful in ouf promises, to abstain from acts of fraud, injustice, and oppression, and to do to others as we would they should do to us. Yet the man of honour seldom troubles himself about these weightier matters of the law ; though they... | |
| Religion - 1812 - 954 pages
...He has given a clear measure for this love. We are " to love our neighbour as ourselves;" we are " to do to others as we would they should do to us." The extent to which this love may be carried, is purposely left unfixed ; because like every other... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1804 - 636 pages
...; and as a foundation of all friendly offices towards them, to love our neighbour as ourselves, and to do to others as we would, they should do to us, and this universally to all our fellow-creatures, not excepting even the worst of our enemies, Phil.... | |
| William Richards - 1812 - 632 pages
...their brethren, or exercise authority over their consciences, and requires, in all things whatsoever, to do to others as we would they should do to us. But the reformers overlooked all this, and discovered either an entire ignorance of, or a fixed aversion... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 462 pages
...still written upon his heart. (p. 49.) " Does not this law require us to love God with all our hearts, to do to others as we would they should do to us, and to govern our senses, appetites, and passions ; by the rules of reason ? Does it not require that... | |
| 1813 - 662 pages
...before a just Judge. The grand rule of moral excellence, even according to the gospel, he observed, was, to do to others as we would they should do to us ; but he had gone much beyond this. From Mr. Stephens's record it would not appear that he would very... | |
| James Freeman - Occasional sermons - 1814 - 192 pages
...basis; and he taught us to love all men, because they are all the children of God. He commanded us to do to others, as we would they should do to us ; and consequently never to insult, oppress, or hate any one, because this is not what we should choose;... | |
| William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...they disband and fall into confusion. And the sum of the law is virtually comprised in one rule, " To do to others as we would they should do to us," than which nothing is more equal. It is good to man that keeps it, commanding nothing but what is influential... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 538 pages
...us to practise entire justice : That which is altogether just shall thou follow, Deut. xvi. 2O. and to do to others as we would they should do to us. But how many are there, whose dealings with their fellow-men, if strictly tried by these rules, would... | |
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