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14 Sept 1814 5 Logic or Ethics Ch Fortitude 3 §.2. Aristotelians
Aristotle had not Jesus little as he run any and they had become a founder of Bishopricks & Fellowship
These absurdities would be make a perfect riddle, To understand To account for the cause of these absurdities, it is necessary to advert to the hands through which, before they on their its way to the eyes and ears of Oxford students, the doctrines of Aristotle had to pass.
The morality of the heathen being taken for the groundwork foundation main text, to fit it for orthodox all eyes many amendments required to be made to it, an embroidering of amendments in that of a nly one, required to be applied to it.
The word virtue was found notwithstanding the sparing mention made of it in the Christian Scriptures, still maintained itself in the possession of general not to any universal homage. Be the act what it might, if it were supposing it generally understood that the quality of virtue could without impropriety be applied to it, neither judgment nor therefore language of a condemnatory nature, could not consistently nor therefore would willingly be applied to it.
What was to be done? The dilemma was a distressing one. Here were two masters, Aristotle and Jesus, were at variance. No man can serve two masters.] To serve two masters, and those masters issuing contradictory opposite commands was not in human power. + + Luke 16.13. One was to be cloven to, the other to be ...d The choice was not difficult Aristotle was indeed a hero: but Jesus was a God. Aristotle had founded neither [cathroned] was so much as ffellowships. Jesus, little as for ought appears, he thought if such a thing had become a founder of both, clothing his Bishops in the livery robes of Dives, and seating them on thrones.
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