"For all the World acknowledges, that Hope and Fear are the two great Handles, by which the Will of Man is to be taken Hold of, when we would either draw it to Duty, or draw it off from Sin."
— South, Robert (1634-1716)
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Date
September 11, 1698
Metaphor
"For all the World acknowledges, that Hope and Fear are the two great Handles, by which the Will of Man is to be taken Hold of, when we would either draw it to Duty, or draw it off from Sin."
Metaphor in Context
But now, should any one venture to own such an odd and absurd Paradox, in any of those sober, rational Parts of Christendom, which have depraved their judging and discerning Faculties with those strange, new-found ecstatick Notions of Religion, which some (who call themselves Christians and Christians of the highest Form too) have, in the late super-reforming Age, taken up amongst us; how unnatural, or rather indeed, how romantick would such Divinity appear? For all the World acknowledges, that Hope and Fear are the two great Handles, by which the Will of Man is to be taken Hold of, when we would either draw it to Duty, or draw it off from Sin. They are the strongest, and most efficacious Means to bring such Things home to the Will, as are principally apt to move and work upon it. And the greatest, the noblest, and most renowned Actions, that were ever achieved upon the Face of the Earth, have first moved upon the Spring of a projecting Hope, carrying the Mind above all present Discouragements, by the Prospect of some glorious and Future Good.
(Vol. II, pp. 61-2)
(Vol. II, pp. 61-2)
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Provenance
Reading Martin C. Battestin's "The Problem of Amelia: Hume, Barrow, and the Conversion of Captain Booth" ELH. 613-648: p. 633.
Citation
8 entries in ECCO (1715, 1718, 1720, 1722, 1727, 1737).
Earliest text found in ECCO is"The Recompence of the Reward: a Sermon Preached in Christ-Church, Oxon, Before the University, Sept. 11. 1698. On Hebrews XI. 24, 25, 26," from Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and Upon Several Occasions. By Robert South, D.D. &C. Vol. IV. Never Before Published. (London: Printed by G. James, for Jonah Bowyer at the Rose in Ludgate-Street, 1715).
Text from Thirty Six Sermons and Discourses, on Several Subjects and Occasions. By Robert South, D.D. Late Prebendary of Westminster, and Canon of Christ-Church, Oxon, &c. (Dublin: Printed for Joseph Leathly, in Dame's-Street, and Patrick Dugan, on Cork-Hill, booksellers, 1720).
Earliest text found in ECCO is"The Recompence of the Reward: a Sermon Preached in Christ-Church, Oxon, Before the University, Sept. 11. 1698. On Hebrews XI. 24, 25, 26," from Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and Upon Several Occasions. By Robert South, D.D. &C. Vol. IV. Never Before Published. (London: Printed by G. James, for Jonah Bowyer at the Rose in Ludgate-Street, 1715).
Text from Thirty Six Sermons and Discourses, on Several Subjects and Occasions. By Robert South, D.D. Late Prebendary of Westminster, and Canon of Christ-Church, Oxon, &c. (Dublin: Printed for Joseph Leathly, in Dame's-Street, and Patrick Dugan, on Cork-Hill, booksellers, 1720).
Date of Entry
05/24/2006
