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. 1853 Excerpt: ...degree. And. if we proceed on scriptural and rational principles, we must ascertain the degrees of a revival of religion, not by the number of persons who have been the subjects of great bodily agitation, or affecting exercises of mind under the influence of terror or joy, but by the number of those persons, who, from ...
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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. 1853 Excerpt: ...degree. And. if we proceed on scriptural and rational principles, we must ascertain the degrees of a revival of religion, not by the number of persons who have been the subjects of great bodily agitation, or affecting exercises of mind under the influence of terror or joy, but by the number of those persons, who, from all the testimony which we can collect from the above mentioned sources, appear to have become the subjects of genuine piety and growth in grace. Acts, ii: 47: "And the Lord added to the Church daily, such as should be saved." We will indeed, grant that some men may be orthodox in their opinions, regular in their attention to the ordinances of God, free of gross immorality, and under the influence of such an enthusiastic fear of enthusiasm, as to oppose every thing warm and heart-affecting in religion. While others may be so much afraid of everything cool and rational in religion, as to plunge into the vortex of enthusiasm, where the passions despise the dictates of the understanding, and revolt from her government. That some persons may arrive to such a high degree of faith, as to possess a strong assurance, that the Christian religion was in its minority during the ministry ef Jesus Christ and his Apostles, and never arrived to maturity until they arose and brought it to such a state of perfection, that if Paul was alive, he would scarcely know it; and therefore, the standard of true religion, and all revivals of it until the end of the world, will be found in their Acts and Testimonies and not in the sacred Scriptures, which were written when religion was in its infancy. That large batteries, constructed of paper testimo. nies against the sins of our neighbors may be erected to overthrow the kingdom of Satan, by beating down all...
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