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Joseph Butler, Late Lord Bishop of Durham, Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel, to which are added Six Sermons Preached on Public Occasions, a new edition (1841), Sermon XIV, "Upon the Love of God," p. 157

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Resignation to the will of God is the whole of piety: it includes in it all that is good; and is a source of the most settled quiet and composure of mind. There is the general principle of submission in our nature. Man i…

Joseph Butler · Joseph Butler, Late Lord Bishop of Durham, Fifteen Sermons Preached at the Rolls Chapel, to which are added Six Sermons Preached on Public Occasions, a new edition (1841), Sermon XIV, "Upon the Love of God," p. 157
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