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Coleridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4.

PART III
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Not "Do you wish to love God ?" "Do you love your neighbour ?" "Do you think, 'O how dear and lovely must Christ be!'"-- but--"Are you certain that Christ has saved 'you'; that he died for 'you--you--you -- yourself' ?" on to the end of the chapter.

This is Wesley's doctrine.
Lecture IX.

vol.IV.p.

96.
For that this was his fixed purpose, Lucretius not only vows, but also boasts of it, and loads him (Epicurus) with ill-advised praises, for endeavouring through the whole course of his philosophy to free the minds of men from all the bonds and ties of religion.
But surely in this passage 'religio' must be rendered superstition, the most effectual means for the removal of which Epicurus supposed himself to have found in the exclusion of the 'gods many and lords many', from their imagined agency in all the 'phaenomena' of nature and the events of history, substituting for these the belief in fixed laws, having in themselves their evidence and necessity.

On this account, in this passage at least, Lucretius praises his master.
Ib.p.


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