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. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...for the promotion of apostacy, used long ago by Jacobins and infidels; and blind indeed must that man be who cannot perceive the intimate connection existing between these Sabbath innovations and the other dogmas of the Revolutionary code. Those men who are trying so mightily to get the government of the world ...
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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. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...for the promotion of apostacy, used long ago by Jacobins and infidels; and blind indeed must that man be who cannot perceive the intimate connection existing between these Sabbath innovations and the other dogmas of the Revolutionary code. Those men who are trying so mightily to get the government of the world within their fiendish grasp, in order, as they boast, to destroy bigots and tyrants, base their pretentious upon the assumption that man knows best what is for his good, and that our mere human and fallen instincts afford suilicient light, without any revelation from above. Practically they ridicule the Scriptures, and set them at naught, which is a manifest token of their unbelief And yet no wonder, when we consider how the Bible condemns the false principles of Liberalism on its every page, and threatens overwhelming destruction to those who follow such cunningly devised schemes. Democracy is unfavourable to restraint of any kind, and whether the law come from earthly sovereign or heaven s own King, the rebel apostates seem determined to evince their lawlessness by bold and violent opposition. In Scotland, the proverbial land of Sabbath observance, a change is evidently impending, and, as usual on all religious questions, the Daily Telegraph finds occasion to scoff and ridicule that good old way which the modern school find so irksome. From the dawn of civility, as Hume phrases it, or at least since the Reformation, which was perhaps before that dawn, Scotland has had a great deal of its most noteworthy, often its best, and almost always its most energetic thought expressed in the Church, which now, alas! having fallen upon the evil times and days of latitudinarian speculation and free speech and cheap printing, is...
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