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 Sect. VI.

The Regard due to the Pleasures and Pains of Sympathy, in forming the Rule of Life.

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The pleasures of sympathy improve those of sensation, imagination, ambition, and self-interest; and unite with those of theopathy and the moral sense: they are self-consistent, and admit of an unlimited extent; and consequently they may be our primary pursuit 498

Practical rules for augmenting the benevolent affections, and suppressing the malevolent ones 503

Practical rules for the conduct of men towards each other in society 504

The duties arising from the principal relations of life 509

Sect. VII.

The Regard due to the Pleasures and Pains of Theopathy, in forming the Rule of Life.

The love of God regulates, improves, and perfects all the other parts of our nature, and affords a pleasure superior, in kind and degree, to all the rest; and therefore is our primary pursuit and ultimate end 514

Practical rules concerning the theopathetic affections, faith, fear, gratitude, hope, trust, resignation, and love 518

Practical rules concerning the manner of expressing the theopathetic affections by prayer, and other religious exercises 528

Sect. VIII.

The Regard due to the Pleasures and Pains of the Moral Sense, in forming the Rule of Life.

The moral sense ought to be made the immediate guide of our actions on all sudden emergencies 531