The Nature of True Virtue

Jonathan Edwards

Language: English

Publisher: Monergism

Words: 27583
Pages: 161

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Table of Contents

Chapter I: Showing wherein the essence of true virtue consists

Chapter II: Showing how that love, wherein true virtue consists, respects the Divine Being and created beings 

Chapter III: Concerning the secondary and inferior kind of beauty 

Chapter IV: Of self-love, and its various influence, to cause love to others, or the contrary 

Chapter V: Of natural conscience, and the moral sense 

Chapter VI: Of particular instincts of nature, which in some respects resemble virtue 

Chapter VII: The reasons why those things that have been mentioned, which have not the essence of virtue, have yet by many been mistaken for true virtue 

Chapter VIII: In what respects virtue or moral good is founded in sentiment; and how far it is founded in the reason and nature of things