This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...itself, is allowed for an instant as a reason or an excuse for wrong-doing. To plead the inner purpose or desire--the faith or the love--as a substitute for the right word or deed, is of no avail. The deed must be done, cost what it may. "Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...itself, is allowed for an instant as a reason or an excuse for wrong-doing. To plead the inner purpose or desire--the faith or the love--as a substitute for the right word or deed, is of no avail. The deed must be done, cost what it may. "Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" On the other hand, in cases when the act is not regarded by all men as a duty, --either because the special cir-The right cumstances do not require it, or because one man and (My understands their import better than another, --each 'fcents P""" man must follow his own judgment, and make that Judgment the law of his conscience. Examples of such a difference of 280 ELEMENTS OF MORAL SCIENCE. 134. opinion occurred when the Christian ethics first began to be applied to the conduct of life. Questions of practical difficulty arose very early, which distracted and vexed the consciences of men, occasioning crimination and condemnation on the one side, and the assertion of individual freedom on the other. The flesh of slaughtered animals was exposed for sale, after having been previously offered in sacrifice upon the altar of an idol. Such flesh was conceived by some (and naturally enough) to have been polluted by being thus, connected with the worship of a false god. Many believers as naturally and honestly refused to purchase or eat of Example. such flesh, regarding the use of it as immoral. Others saw no harm in either act, inasmuch as neither expressed sympathy with idol-worship (Rom. xiv.). The difficulty was adjusted by declarations which are good for all time, and which assert and enforce the principle, that, in respect to many important questions of conduct, each individual must be allowed to form and hol
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