An Apology for Rational and Evangelical Christianity: A Discourse at the Dedication of a New Church on Church Green, Summer Street, Boston : to which are Added Notes and Illustrations |
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... mankind have for ages dis- puted - and in which the most etherial spirits , after vainly excruciating their understandings , have found no end in wandering mazes lost . " All that is any way practical with regard to these * Note F ...
... mankind have for ages dis- puted - and in which the most etherial spirits , after vainly excruciating their understandings , have found no end in wandering mazes lost . " All that is any way practical with regard to these * Note F ...
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... mankind were all of the plainest character - and can we err when we follow his divine example ? —We admit in the fullest manner the perfect right of our fellow christians to think otherwise on these points ; but we are not able to ...
... mankind were all of the plainest character - and can we err when we follow his divine example ? —We admit in the fullest manner the perfect right of our fellow christians to think otherwise on these points ; but we are not able to ...
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... mankind ; nor do the representations of the scriptures lead us to expect it will be so . We do not doubt , that good effects have sometimes been produced on particular persons , by throwing them into a sudden spasm of terrour or agony ...
... mankind ; nor do the representations of the scriptures lead us to expect it will be so . We do not doubt , that good effects have sometimes been produced on particular persons , by throwing them into a sudden spasm of terrour or agony ...
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... - ter , through the whole of life , of all the different classes of mankind . We confess , then , that our principles lead us to the exercise of caution in our addresses to the pas- sions . If this were the place for speaking of 21.
... - ter , through the whole of life , of all the different classes of mankind . We confess , then , that our principles lead us to the exercise of caution in our addresses to the pas- sions . If this were the place for speaking of 21.
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... mankind . This is a view , which I acknowledge to be refreshing and consoling to my mind , when I consider the different sects , into which the christian world is divided . It enables me to see without pain the success of those , whose ...
... mankind . This is a view , which I acknowledge to be refreshing and consoling to my mind , when I consider the different sects , into which the christian world is divided . It enables me to see without pain the success of those , whose ...
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Page 31 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately; which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both...
Page 41 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear : forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers ; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot...
Page 41 - Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works,
Page 41 - For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead ; and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them and rose again.
Page 10 - Do ye look on things after the outward appearance ? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.
Page 19 - All these things are but means to an end, and that end is charity out of a pure heart, a good conscience, and faith unfeigned.
Page 31 - To those especially, who seek for conviction in certain inward feelings, which the warmth of their imaginations represents to them as divine, I would recommend the serious consideration of this important fact, that the foundation, which they lay for the Bible, is no other, than what the Mahometan is accustomed to lay for the Koran.
Page 36 - I have remarked, have acknowledged their prejudices to be diminished, after these ideas had been presented in the simple general language of intellect. We cannot indeed so far forget the lessons of experience, and the inspired declarations concerning the dispositions of the human mind, as to expect that any improvement in the mode of exhibiting Christian truth will render it irresistible.
Page 31 - Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason, to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both, and does much the same, as if he would persuade a man to put out his eyes, the better to receive the remote light of an invisible star by a telescope.
Page 20 - This is a. faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.