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- | ====== HABIT ====== | ||
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- | * HABIT, Endowment, enure, qualifie, Gift, Talent. | ||
- | * DISPOSITION, | ||
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- | To the more general consideration of Habit may appertain | ||
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- | Those States or Conditions of life which either reward or enable men for vertuous Actions; comprehending the | ||
- | * ENDS OR REWARD OF VERTUE. I. | ||
- | * INSTRUMENTS OF VERTUE. II. | ||
- | Those Qualifications, | ||
- | * INTELLECTUAL. III. | ||
- | * MORAL. IV. | ||
- | The Kinds of vertuous Habits, whether | ||
- | * INFUSED▪ | ||
- | * ACQUIR•• INTELLECTUAL. VI. | ||
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- | ===== REWARD ===== | ||
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- | ==== GENERAL ==== | ||
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- | General; viz. that state wherein a thing injoys as much perfection as it is capable of. | ||
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- | * HAPPINESS, Felicity, Bliss, Blessedness, | ||
- | * MISERY, Vnhappiness, | ||
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- | ==== PARTICULAR ==== | ||
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- | Particular; relating to the reward of | ||
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- | === MORAL === | ||
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- | Moral Vertue; in the enjoyment of those things that conduce to our bene esse. | ||
- | * External; | ||
- | * PROSPERITY, flourishing, | ||
- | * ADVERSITY, Affliction, distress, tribulation, | ||
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- | * Internal; quiet, or disquiet of the Affections. | ||
- | * CONTENTATION, | ||
- | * ANXIETY, Discontent, 〈◊〉 taking, dump, trouble, anguish, dis∣quiet, | ||
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- | === CHRISTIAN VALUES === | ||
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- | Christian Vertues and Graces; consisting in an everlasting Vision and Fruition of God. | ||
- | * SALVATION, Beatifical Vision, Heaven, Glory. | ||
- | * DAMNATION, Condemnation Hell, perdition. | ||
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- | ===== The INSTRUMENTS OF VERTUE ===== | ||
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- | 1. Our Persons, and the being at our own disposal. | ||
- | * LIBERTY, Freedom, at large, deliver, release, inlar•e, set free, rid, dis∣patch, | ||
- | * RESTRAINT, confine, streighten, repress. | ||
- | 2. Our Possessions; | ||
- | * RICHES, Wealth, Opulence, Pelf, Means, Fortunes, Estate, thrive, Treasure, make, enrich, worth, well to pass. | ||
- | * POVERTY, Necessity, Penury, Indigence, Need, Want, poor, empoverish, ruine. | ||
- | 3. The sutableness of the things which we have or do, and that satisfacti∣on which we receive by them. | ||
- | * PLEASURE, Delight, Delectation, | ||
- | * VNPLEASANTNESS, | ||
- | 4. Our Names, and the esteem we have amongst good men. | ||
- | * REPUTATION, Credit, Countenance, | ||
- | * INFAMY, Disgrace, discredit, dishonour, disparage, defame, discounte∣nance, | ||
- | 5. Our Degrees, and the quality of our Conditions in relation to others; being either considerably above them, or below them. | ||
- | * DIGNITY, Promotion, Preferment, Advancement, | ||
- | * MEANNESS, Lowness, Obscurity, Baseness, Vileness, ignoble, plain, abase, debase, degrade, Abjectness. | ||
- | 6. Our Ability to protect our selves and others from injury, which is the usu∣al result or consequent of the rest. | ||
- | * POWER-full, Potent-ate, Greatness, Interest, Strength, Might, Puis∣sance, | ||
- | * IMPOTENCE, weak, inconsiderable. | ||
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- | ===== INTELLECTUAL. | ||
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- | ==== RATIONAL SOUL ==== | ||
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- | 1. Invention; which is ‖ rightly, or •••ongly disposed by | ||
- | * SAGACITY, Perspicacity, | ||
- | * DVLNESS, Stupidity, Heaviness, gross-witted, | ||
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- | 2. Iudgment; which is ‖ well disposed, by such a temper of mind as doth incline a man to assent unto things upon such evidence as is in it self sufficient, or ill disposed, by such a temper as inclines a man either to assent unto things upon such evidence as is insufficient, | ||
- | * FAITH, Docility, Teachableness, | ||
- | * CREDVLITY, Easiness, light or rash of belief, facil. | ||
- | * INCREDVLITY, | ||
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- | ==== SENSITIVE SOUL ==== | ||
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- | Phancy; which is ‖ well, or ill disposed by | ||
- | * SOBRIETY, discreet, grave, serious, staid, steddy, settled, sage. | ||
- | * CONCEITEDNESS, | ||
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- | App•tite; which is fitly regulated by our being concerned for any Truth according to a due measure; and not either more or less then the evidence and importance of it, doth require. | ||
- | * MODERATION, Temper, Measure, Gentle-ness, | ||
- | * SLIGHTNESS, Slackness, negligence, remissness, Neutrality, frigid, cold, indifferent, | ||
- | * FIERCENESS, Fanaticalness, | ||
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- | ===== MORAL ===== | ||
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- | The Temper and Frame of our Minds, as to their due | ||
- | * Attention; | ||
- | * For any kind of Advantage, or Expedient. | ||
- | * CONSIDERATION, | ||
- | * CVNCTATION, Loitering, Delay, slack, trifling, linger, lag, while off, drive off, put off. | ||
- | * RASHNESS, Hastiness, Temerity, heady, hair-brain' | ||
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- | Against any kind of Evil, Danger or Impediment. | ||
- | * HEEDFULNESS, | ||
- | * CARKING, Solicitude, Anxiety, over-thoughtful. | ||
- | * CARELESNESS, | ||
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- | Freedom and Readiness of our Faculties about any thing. | ||
- | * ALACRITY, Chearfulness, | ||
- | * GRVDGING, maunder, murmure, mutter, repine, regret, querulous, go against, with an ill will. | ||
- | Reality of our Intentions, sutable to our outward Pretences. | ||
- | * SINCERITY, Vprightness, | ||
- | * HYPOCRISIE, Dissimulation, | ||
- | The Vigorousness of our Endeavours in the prosecution of fitting means. | ||
- | * DILIGENCE, Assiduity, Sedulity, Industry, Attention, Care, Labour, Study, instant, elaborate, ply, bestir, stickle, lay about him, earnest, in∣defatigable, | ||
- | * DOVBLE-DILIGENCE, | ||
- | * SLOTH, Idleness, laziness, carelessness, | ||
- | The Vniversality required to vertuous Actions, in respect of the | ||
- | Object. | ||
- | * INTEGRITY, Honesty, intire, equal, impartial, incorrupt, upright. | ||
- | * PARTIALITY, unequal, making a difference, accepting of persons. | ||
- | Time of continuance▪ | ||
- | * CONSTANCY, •erseverance, | ||
- | * PERTINACY, Obstinacy, Contumacy, pervicacious, | ||
- | * LIGHTNESS, Inconstancy, | ||
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- | ===== INFUSED▪ Intellectual and Moral ===== | ||
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- | ==== GENERAL ==== | ||
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- | General; consisting in | ||
- | A change of mind from evil to good. | ||
- | * REPENTANCE, Penitence, compunction, | ||
- | * IMPENITENCE, | ||
- | An habitual frame of mind, whereby we are fitted for vertuous acti∣ons, and more especially for the Duties of Religion. | ||
- | * HOLINESS, Sanctity, Godliness, Piety, Devotion, Righteousness, | ||
- | * VNHOLINESS, Wickedness, Iniquity, Impiety, Vngodliness, | ||
- | An inlargement of Soul, to desire and endeavour public general good, and taking it off from being immersed in narrow selfish designs. | ||
- | * SELF-DENIAL, | ||
- | * SELFISHNESS, | ||
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- | ==== PARTICULAR ==== | ||
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- | Particular; styled Theological Vertues; respecting | ||
- | * Truth and Falshood; a readiness to yield an effectual assent unto re∣vealed Truths upon such grounds as their natures are capable of, and such as are sufficient to prevail with any such prudent teacha∣ble man as is free from any affected Captiousness. | ||
- | * FAITH, Belief, Believer, Creed. | ||
- | * INFIDELITY, Vnbelief, Miscreant. | ||
- | * Good and Evil. | ||
- | * Future; being an acquiescence of the mind in the expectation of such Promises as are revealed. | ||
- | * HOPE, Trust, Affiance, Reliance, Re••mbency. | ||
- | * DESPAIR, Despondency, | ||
- | * General; wishing well, and endeavouring to be helpful and ser∣viceable unto all, according to the due proportion we are obli∣ged to by natural or revealed Light. | ||
- | * CHARITY, Love. | ||
- | * VNCHARITABLENESS, | ||
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- | ===== ACQUIR•• INTELLECTUAL ===== | ||
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- | ==== OBJECTS ==== | ||
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- | Speculative; | ||
- | * SCIENCE, Knowledge, Skill, Theory, Learning, Insight. | ||
- | * CVRIOSITY. | ||
- | * IGNORANCE, rude, untaught. | ||
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- | Active; denoting Skill in men and business, whereby we are inabled to judge what is fit and convenient, according to various cases and circumstances. | ||
- | * WISDOM, Prudence, Discretion, Sapience, wise, sage, politic. | ||
- | * CRAFT, Cunning, Subtilty, Shiness, Policy, Device, Quirk, Sleight, Fetch, Wile, Trick, sly, shrewd, Knave, Shark, Shift, come over one, over reach. | ||
- | * FOLLY, Fool-ishness, | ||
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- | Effective; implying Skill in those several Operations and Works which concern Humane life. | ||
- | * ART, Skill, Dexterity, Craft, Cunning, Insight, Knack, expert, well-seen in, good at, artificial, Workman, Artist. | ||
- | * VNSKILFVLNESS, | ||
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- | ==== MANNER OF ACCQUIRING THEM ==== | ||
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- | Our own Observation, | ||
- | * EXPERIENCE, Practice, Exercise, Knowledge, conversant, versed, expert, Experiment, Empyric. | ||
- | * INEXPERIENCE, | ||
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- | The Teaching of others, either vivâ voce, or ex scriptis. | ||
- | * LEARNING, Literature, Scholarship, | ||
- | * VNLEARNEDNESS, | ||