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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... views which it offers are unavoidably very general . The neces- sity , also , of preserving , as far as might be , the distinction between a sermon and a dissertation , has occasioned a want of fullness in the reasoning and ...
... views which it offers are unavoidably very general . The neces- sity , also , of preserving , as far as might be , the distinction between a sermon and a dissertation , has occasioned a want of fullness in the reasoning and ...
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... views nourish a temper of pride and presump- tuous confidence in human reason , fatal to a hum- ble sense of our dependence on God . Our depen- dence on God is absolute and entire . If any man will show me in what way this sentiment can ...
... views nourish a temper of pride and presump- tuous confidence in human reason , fatal to a hum- ble sense of our dependence on God . Our depen- dence on God is absolute and entire . If any man will show me in what way this sentiment can ...
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... views of them as are often received . We however certainly can never think , that any thing essential to christian faith or practice depends on the decision of these questions . We think it a thing in itself most un- likely , that a ...
... views of them as are often received . We however certainly can never think , that any thing essential to christian faith or practice depends on the decision of these questions . We think it a thing in itself most un- likely , that a ...
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... views of religious truth , that they do not lead us to expect single and instantaneous effects from its influence , so much as a gradual and permanent operation . We deny not , that there are real examples of sudden conversions from sin ...
... views of religious truth , that they do not lead us to expect single and instantaneous effects from its influence , so much as a gradual and permanent operation . We deny not , that there are real examples of sudden conversions from sin ...
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... views of it , we trust , do not rob religion of any of its salutary power to move and raise and melt the soul . The character of God appears not to us less merciful or less glorious , than to our brethren . Christ seems not less endued ...
... views of it , we trust , do not rob religion of any of its salutary power to move and raise and melt the soul . The character of God appears not to us less merciful or less glorious , than to our brethren . Christ seems not less endued ...
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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.