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The Preface states, “This [book] claims with the historic Reformed creeds that the good is good because God in Christ through the Scriptures, says it is good. Without the presupposition of the self-sufficient moral consciousness of the triune God revealed in Scripture, man’s moral consciousness would operate in a vacuum. To bring out this point Part 1 deals with Christian Ethical Principles…Part...

in doing something unless he tries to accomplish the right end with it. We may even find that the purpose of certain deeds lies in their purifying effect on the motive of future deeds of a similar sort or of future deeds in general. The doing of many individual good deeds of kindness will increase the kindness of our disposition. Yet there is always this distinction, that in the case of motive we deal with the condition of the will as it is at the time of the action under consideration, while in
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