Essays, in a Series of Letters, on the Following Subjects; On Man's Writing Memoirs of Himself. on Decision of Character. on the Application of the Epithet Romantic. on Some of the Causes by Which Evangelical Religion Has Been Rendered Less Accepta
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Essays, in a Series of Letters, on the Following Subjects; On Man's Writing Memoirs of Himself. on Decision of Character. on the Application of the Epithet Romantic. on Some of the Causes by Which Evangelical Religion Has Been Rendered Less Accepta

Essays, in a Series of Letters, on the Following Subjects; On Man's Writing Memoirs of Himself. on Decision of Character. on the Application of the Epithet Romantic. on Some of the Causes by Which Evangelical Religion Has Been Rendered Less Accepta


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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.1826 Excerpt: ... ESSAY XV. ON SOME OF THE CAUSES BY WHICH EVANGELICAL RELIGION HAS BEEN RENDERED UNACCEPTABLE TO PERSONS OF CULTIVATED TASTE. LETTER I. MY BEAR FRIEND, While this life is passing so fast away, it is striking to observe the various forms of character in which men choose to spend this introductory season of their being, and to enter on its future greater stage. If some one of these forms is more eligible than all the rest for entering on that greater stage, a thoughtful man will surely wish for that to be his own; and to ascertain which it is, is the most important of all his inquiries. We, my friend, are persuaded that the inquiry, if serious, will soon terminate, and that the Christian character will be selected as the only one, in which it is wise to await the call into eternity. Indeed the assurance of our eternal existence itself rests but on that authority which dictates also the right introduction to it. The christian character is simply a conformity to the whole religion of Christ. But this implies a cordial admission of that whole religion; and it meets, on the contrary, in many minds not denying it to be a communication from God, a disposition to shrink from some of its peculiar distinctions, or to modify them. I am not now to learn that the substantial cause of this is that repugnance in human nature to what is purely divine, which revelation affirms, and all history proves, and which perhaps some of the humiliating points of the christian system are more adapted to ON THE AVERSION OF MEN OF TASTE, ETC. 1 57 provoke, than any thing else that ever came from heaven. Nor do I need to be told how much this chief cause has aided and aggravated the power of those subordinate ones, which may have conspired to prevent the success of evangelical religion amo...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151019738
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 90
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151019739
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 177 gr

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