Gratitude, Pity, Affections
No. 269
There are two affections that are natural to men that do especially seem to imitate virtue. 1. The one is gratitude, or a disposition to love others that love them. 'Tis as easy to account for such an affection's arising from self-love as anger and revenge, whereby men are disposed to hate those that hate them. Matthew 5:46, "For if ye love them that lo…
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