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See also:BALGUY, See also:JOHN (1686-1748) , See also:English divine and philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Sheffield on the 12th of See also:August 1686. He was educated at the Sheffield See also:grammar school and at St John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, graduated B.A. in 1706, was ordained in 1710, and in 1711 obtained the small living of Lamesley and Tanfield in See also:Durham. He married in 1715. It was the See also:year in which See also:Bishop Hoadley preached the famous See also:sermon on " The See also:Kingdom of See also:Christ," which gave rise to the " Bangorian controversy "; and Balguy, under the nom de plume of Silvius, began his career of authorship by taking the See also:side of Hoadley in this controversy against some of his High See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church opponents. s Cal. of See also:State Pap. (See also:Foreign), 1579-1580, p. 294.
3 The See also:title was attainted in 1716, through the 5th See also:baron's complicity in the Jacobite rising of 1715. In 1869 it was restored to See also:Alexander See also:Hugh See also:Bruce (b. 1849), as 6th baron; he became one of the most influential of contemporary Scottish noblemen, on the Conservative side in politics, and was secretary for See also:Scotland from 1895 to 1903.
In 1726 he published A See also:letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and See also:Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the See also:Christian See also:Religion, chiefly designed to show that, while a love of virtue for its own See also:sake is the highest principle of morality, religious rewards and punishments are most valuable, and in some cases absolutely indispensable, as sanctions of conduct. In 1727 he was made a See also:prebendary of See also:Salisbury by his friend Hoadley. He published in the same year the first See also:part of a tractate entitled The See also:Foundation of Moral Goodness, and in the following year a second part, Illustrating and enforcing the Principles contained in the former. The aim of the See also:work is two-fold—to refute the theory of See also:Hutcheson regarding the basis of rectitude, and to establish the theory of See also:Cudworth and See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke, that virtue is conformity to reason—the acting according to fitnesses which arise out of the eternal and immutable relations of agents to See also:objects. In 1729 he became See also:vicar of See also:Northallerton, in the See also:county of See also:York. His next work was an See also:essay on Divine Rectitude: or, a Brief Inquiry concerning the Moral Perfections of the Deity, particularly in respect of Creation and See also:Providence. It is an See also:attempt to show that the same moral principle which ought to See also:direct human See also:life may be perceived to underlie the See also:works and ways of See also:God: goodness in the Deity not being a See also:mere disposition to benevolence, but a regard to an See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, beauty and See also:harmony, which are not merely relative to our faculties and capacities, but real and See also:absolute; claiming for their own sakes the reverence of all intelligent beings, and alone answering to the perfection of the divine ideas. Balguy wrote several other terse and readable tracts of the same nature, which he collected and published in a single See also:volume in 1734. In 1741 he published an Essay on Redemption, containing somewhat advanced views. Redemption as taught in Scripture means, according to him, " the deliverance or See also:release of mankind from the See also:power and See also:punishment of See also:sin, by the meritorious sufferings of Jesus Christ," but involves no See also:translation of See also:guilt, substitution of persons or vicarious punishment. Freed from these ideas, which have arisen from interpreting literally expressions which are properly figurative, the See also:doctrine, he argues, satisfies deep and urgent human wants, and is in perfect consistence and agreement with See also:reason and rectitude. His last publication was a volume of sermons, pervaded by See also:good sense and good feeling, and clear, natural and direct in See also:style. He died at See also:Harrogate on the 21st of See also:September 1748. A second volume of sermons appeared in 1750 (3rd ed. in 2 vols., 1760).
End of Article: BALGUY, JOHN (1686-1748)
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