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An Inquiry Into the Connected Uses of the Principal Means of Attaining Christian Truth, 8 Sermons Preached at the Bampton Lecture. [With] Appendix

An Inquiry Into the Connected Uses of the Principal Means of Attaining Christian Truth, 8 Sermons Preached at the Bampton Lecture. [With] Appendix


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841. Excerpt: ... not being an Introduction to the Scriptures, or a Commentary upon them, but a coequal Instruction." With respect to the kind or degree of authority I would assign to the teaching of the Church, that subject is separately treated of in Sermon VI.; but as to Teachers, I do not perceive that the methods by which they are to ascertain the Truth differ in principle from those which other men are to observe. The Teacher himself must begin with being first a learner, and must advance towards a full knowledge of the truth like other Christians; every one will have need to depend more at first, and somewhat less as he advances, upon external aid; the principle of the Duty of Private Judgment is the same in all, but it will vary and expand in its actual exercise according to men's opportunities, acquirements, and powers; yet the Teacher like the learner will stand in need of all the principal means afforded to us all for the attainment of Christian Truth, that is to say of the Scriptures, and the Church, of Reason, and Grace. (See Sermon VIII. p. 297 et seq.) P. 100.1.8. Terms not strictly figurative, bat analogical. "There is great difference between the analogical representations of God, and that which we commonly call figurative. The common use of figures is to represent things that are otherwise very well known, in such a manner as may magnify or lessen, heighten or adorn, the ideas we have of them. And the design of putting them in this foreign dress, as we may call it, is to move our passions, and engage our fancies more effectually than the true and naked view of them is apt to do, or perhaps ought. And from hence it too often happens, that these figures are employed to deceive us, and make us think better or worse of things than they really deserve. "But th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150024382
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 92
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150024380
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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