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. 1823 Excerpt: ... to avoid all prejudices, as much as possible; and fairly, in humility and with prayer, to give different authors a careful examination: not too many at a time, or as if it were necessary to make up your mind on every subject; but deliberately, and with much exercise of your own thoughts on the various views set before ...
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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. 1823 Excerpt: ... to avoid all prejudices, as much as possible; and fairly, in humility and with prayer, to give different authors a careful examination: not too many at a time, or as if it were necessary to make up your mind on every subject; but deliberately, and with much exercise of your own thoughts on the various views set before you." 1 would here just add, that, even if any persons should be of opinion that the text quoted (l John iv. 19) speaks more directly of the love of gratitude, it would only prove, what I apprehend no one wishes to deny, that favours received form one ground of that complex affection which is styled the love of God; not that this is the only ground, or that no stress is to be laid on the love of-moral esteem for the divine character.--One great reason for insisting on the principles of this letter is, that even a wicked man, taking for granted, on whatever grounds, (as it is to be feared many have done, ) that he enjoys the favour of God, and is an heir of all the blessings of which he reads in the scriptures, may, on that erroneous assumption, feel a flow of gratitude, which he may mistake for the love of God, and thus be confirmed in his delusion, while his heart is really at enmity with God; and that this error is best guarded against, by urging the necessity of cordial reconciliation to the divine holiness, and delight in the perfections of the divine character. The following letter to a lady on a popular volume of hymns arose out of his visits to Margate. It points out some important distinctions, often not duly adverted to. "Mr. Hart, in his hymns, often represents faith as consisting in a belief that Christ died/or me, in particular; which, being no proposition of scripture, can only be directly known by a new revelation. This...
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Fair Condition. No Dust Jacket. Size: Large Octavo; Bound in original boards, now worn, shaken, soiled. Backstrip largely gone, binding pulled. Page edges little worn, soiling. Polrtrait frontispiece little soiled, light foxing, but very little other foxing. Title page missing, data taken from comparison with other copies. Size: Large Octavo. 673 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Religion & Theology; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.
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