Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth of Revealed ReligionWaugh & Innes, 1821 - 210 من الصفحات |
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... duty , -if we see that the object of all its tendencies is the perfection of moral happiness , and that these tendencies are natu- rally connected with the belief of its narration , - if we see all this in the gospel , we may then say ...
... duty , -if we see that the object of all its tendencies is the perfection of moral happiness , and that these tendencies are natu- rally connected with the belief of its narration , - if we see all this in the gospel , we may then say ...
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... duties of justice and benevolence are acknowledged to be realities altogether independent of the enforce- ments of any inspired revelation . The character of God is just as immutable , and as independent of any inspired revelation , as ...
... duties of justice and benevolence are acknowledged to be realities altogether independent of the enforce- ments of any inspired revelation . The character of God is just as immutable , and as independent of any inspired revelation , as ...
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... duty ; when its principles convert the varied events into opportunities of growing in conformity to God , and of acquiring the character of happiness ; and when it tempers the elevation of prosperity and the depression of adversity ...
... duty ; when its principles convert the varied events into opportunities of growing in conformity to God , and of acquiring the character of happiness ; and when it tempers the elevation of prosperity and the depression of adversity ...
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... duty of all the subjects to dwell much upon the history thus communicated to them , in order that they might in this way fa- miliarize their minds to the principles developed in it , and teach their own thoughts to run in the same ...
... duty of all the subjects to dwell much upon the history thus communicated to them , in order that they might in this way fa- miliarize their minds to the principles developed in it , and teach their own thoughts to run in the same ...
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... - defence , contrive to lower its standard of moral duty down to the level of its own performances ; or would settle into a gloomy hostility to a lawgiver who requires more from it than it is disposed to render . It is 45.
... - defence , contrive to lower its standard of moral duty down to the level of its own performances ; or would settle into a gloomy hostility to a lawgiver who requires more from it than it is disposed to render . It is 45.
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الصفحة 73 - Christ died for us:" and again, herein is love; not that we loved God ; but, " that God loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
الصفحة 15 - I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran : I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
الصفحة 68 - ... idea that Christianity holds out a premium for believing improbabilities. In the other, it stands indissolubly united with an act of Divine holiness and compassion, which radiates to the heart an appeal of tenderness most intelligible in its nature and object, and most constraining in its influence. The abstract fact that there is a plurality in the unity of the Godhead, really makes no address either to our understandings, or our feelings, or our consciences. But the obscurity of the doctrine,...
الصفحة 75 - Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.
الصفحة 68 - In the Bible it assumes quite a different shape; it is there subservient to the manifestation of the moral character of GOD. The doctrine of GOD'S combined justice and mercy, in the redemption of sinners, and of His continued spiritual watchfulness over the progress of truth through the world, and in each particular heart, could not have been communicated without it, so as to have been distinctly and vividly apprehended; but it is never mentioned, except in connexion with these objects; nor is it...
الصفحة 35 - This belief is the necessary result of placing the mind in such circumstances. It is an operation of the soul, when we are so situated, as unavoidable as to feel the passion of love, when we receive benefits; or hatred, when we meet with injuries. All these operations are a species of natural instincts, which no reasoning or process of the thought and understanding is able either to produce or to prevent.
الصفحة 70 - TWs pride is natural to man, and can only be overcome by the power of the truth ; but the misapprehension might be removed by the simple process of reading the Bible with attention ; because it has arisen from neglecting the record itself, and taking our information from the discourses or the systems of men who have engrafted the metaphysical subtleties of the schools upon the unperplexed statement of the word of God.
الصفحة 84 - The hallowed purpose of restoring men to the lost image of their Creator, is in fact the very soul and spirit of the Bible ; and whenever this object does not distinctly appear, the whole system becomes dead and useless.
الصفحة 68 - ... with these objects; nor is it ever taught as a separate subject of belief. There is a great and important difference between these two modes of statement. In the first, the doctrine stands as an isolated fact of a strange and unintelligible nature, and is apt even to suggest the idea that Christianity holds out a premium for believing improbabilities.
الصفحة 37 - THE reasonableness of a religion seems to me to consist in there being a direct and natural connexion between a believing the doctrines which it inculcates, and a being formed by these to the character which it recommends. If the belief of the doctrines has no tendency to train the disciple in a more exact and more willing discharge of its moral obligations, there is evidently a very strong probability against the truth of that religion.