Manifestly, there could be no such thing as moral government, and no control over the affairs of the world, if the conduct of men, the minds and hearts of intelligent beings, were not subject to that control.
This is implied, not only in the fact that he is the Creator of all, but in the fact of moral government, and of a superintending providence.
A moral government is a government exercised over free agents, accountable beings; a government of laws, administered by motives.
You hear Him unfold the laws of God's moral government.
Will any pretend that the Almighty cannot maintain a moral government on earth, if He governs according to His own pleasure?
It is of the utmost importance in the study of scripture to distinguish between God's moral government of the world, and the specific hope of the Church.
And if the human intellect is thus faulty, man cannot be the subject of a moral government, for every subject of a moral government is amenable to law.
Does not the mind instinctively and necessarily affirm, that the fact of free moral agency assures the fact of such a relation to God's moral government, that obligation must follow?
The exact likeness of sight just noticed is the necessary a priori ground upon which a moral government is possible.
Neither in creation nor yet in moral government do I or can I read the deep secrets of the Father's bosom.
Jehovah was to take His place, as Lord of all the earth, in moral government.
They therefore afford a presumption of a moral government of the Universe, and point to an Intelligence fulfilling an end through the order in physical laws.
The first condition of a moral government is found in the nearness, the contiguity of God to every human soul, and the immediate and infallible knowledge which He consequently must possess of every human thought and act.
Is each individual the charge of a providence, the subject of a moral government, and the heir to a future retribution?
By this time he must have heard much about superstition, and how men's minds have been dazzled by this splendid picture of a Providence and a moral government of the universe.
It assumes that a universe of moral beings could, under a moral government administered in the wisest and best manner, be wholly restrained from sin; but this needs proof, and never can be proved.
The Ethical End is limited, according to the view taken of Moral Government, or Authority:--Distinction between Security and Improvement.
The Ethical End, although properly confined to Utility, is subject to still farther limitations, according to the view taken of the Province of Moral Government, or Authority.
God exercises a moral government; under it the good are happy, while misfortunes happen to the wicked.
There has been, upon the whole, a moral government of the human race.
They all aim at the development of the plan of God's moral government; and a most striking harmony of sentiment prevails throughout.
Yet this is but a faint representation of the narrow views we have of God's moral government.
It is proper, therefore, that we should contemplate them in a body, as they appear with the most perfect symmetry, in the plan of God's moral government.
Regard yourself as a subject of God's moral government, and the doctrines of the Bible as the laws of his kingdom; and you will feel such a personal interest in them, that you cannot rest in abstract speculation.
For, as Butler truly says, “Moral government consists in rewarding the righteous and punishing the wicked; in rendering to men according to their actions, considered as good or evil.
Some suppose,” says he, “that infants suffer as irrational animals do, without reference to a moral law or the principles of a moral government.
And the perfection of moral government consists in doing this, with regard to all intelligent creatures, in exact proportion to their personal merits and demerits.
Imputation confounds virtue and vice, and saps the very foundation of moral government, both divine and human.
Now, it is of immense importance to have a clear understanding of the doctrine of God's moral government.
In Christ Jesus there is no distinction; but when I go abroad in the world, I encounter God's moral government, which makes one a master and another a servant; and any infringement upon that government will meet with certain judgment.
I have said, and I say again, that the Church is a system of moral government, and that no laxity can be permitted.
You say the Church is a system of moral government.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moral government" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
