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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

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That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

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For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

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Joseph Butler

Joseph Butler
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Born: May 18, 1692
Died: June 16, 1752 (aged 60)
Bio: Joseph Butler was an English bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher. He was born in Wantage in the English county of Berkshire.
Known for:
  1. The Analogy of Religion
  2. Fifteen sermons preached at the Rolls Chapel (1726)
  3. Five Sermons
  4. Human nature, and other sermons
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