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To the success of his enterprize, on the part of such persons as he should be able to engage to take a part in it

To the success of his enterprize the following points of character were, to a degree of perfection more or less considerable, manifestly requisite, and so far as they should have MS orig. ‘should take have’. place, conducive.

1. Towards his own person the most strenuous and unreserved attachment: in which was necessarily comprized persuasion of the verity of whatsoever assurance whether in the way of statement or in the way of promise it should on any occasion happen to him to have conveyed to them. Here we have Faith and Hope.

2. Towards one another, on the part of all without exception the most perfect and uninterrupted manifestation as well as profession, of social affection. Here we have Charity.

3. In regard to his own personal prosperity, on the part of each one of them the most sincere determined and uninterrupted resolution to make sacrifice of it, on all occasions in which such sacrifice would be conducive to make sacrifice of it to the prosperity of the common cause—that is the success of that enterprize in which he was the leader.

Here we have though not Charity herself, yet a disposition in such a degree conducive to charity, as that without it that amiable and useful quality could not exist, that it is only in so far as it is prevalent that charity can have place. Charity being the positive virtue, in this species and degree of disinterestedness we have the correspondent negative.

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Requisite for the success of the enterprize

1. Faith & Hope

2. Charity

3. Self-denial and Self-sacrifice

Disinterestedness

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Charity the positive;

Disinterestedness, the negative.
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