Good and evil - Early works to 1800
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Sin punished , and Vertue Rewarded; or, a monitor for old and young. Wherein are discover'd the sad and deplorable Effects of a Wicked Life. In Several Discourses. 1. Of Worldly Pleasures; 2. Worldly Love; 3. Worldly Joy; 4. Of Lasciviousness; 5 Of Ambition; 6. Of Envy; 7. Of Covetousness. The whole being illustrated with near two hundred notable and remarkable examples; setting forth the many Evils that attend Vice, and the Glorious Rewards of Vertue.
Date: 1713- E-books
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A free inquiry into the nature and origin of evil : in six letters to ------ : to which is added, a preface, and some explanatory notes / by Soame Jenyns.
Soame JenynsDate: MDCCXCV- E-books
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Truth transcending human reason or, the intellectual harmony clearly exhibited; know thy self. Being an alarm to deists, priests, and people, and a trial of spirits; demonstrating clearly the proof of the Trinity to be in every man: And also What the Sin and Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is, and by whom committed in this present Age. Like wise A Hint proposed to prevent Robberies, Thefts, and Murthers, &c. Fit for all Capacities to read and practise. By Geo. Hope, Gent.
Hope, GeorgeDate: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- E-books
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Two essays: the one on the origin of evil wherein the difficulties arising from that consideration, are reconciled with the perfections of God, and his Attributes are clearly Vindicated. The other on the foundation of morality; Wherein The Schemes hitherto advanced thereon, are shewn to be Defective; Something New is added, in order to supply those Defects; And the Whole is Defended from all Objections. To which is annexed, a short dissertation on the immateriality of the soul.
Forster, JosephDate: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- E-books
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An examination of the notion of moral good and evil , advanced in a late book, entitled, The religion of nature delineated. By John Clarke, Master of the publick Grammar-School in Hull.
Clarke, John, 1687-1734.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]