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. 1862 Excerpt: ...never, indeed, have any solid foundations either for their principles or their hopes. But their case serves to show the unsubstantially of inward feeling and sentiment, that have no ground in suitable outward actions; and this is the more necessary to be seen, as it is a course which all are secretly inclined to follow ...
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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. 1862 Excerpt: ...never, indeed, have any solid foundations either for their principles or their hopes. But their case serves to show the unsubstantially of inward feeling and sentiment, that have no ground in suitable outward actions; and this is the more necessary to be seen, as it is a course which all are secretly inclined to follow. "Every human being is a heaven and a world in the least form; his internal being an image of heaven, and his external an image of the world. Religion, to have actual and permanent existence in any one, must be present at once in its graces in the mind, and in its virtues in the outward life. The outward virtue is the foundation of the inward grace; and if these foundations are destroyed, the inward graces which rest upon them must pass away. "Love is the highest grace of religion, and God is its highest object. But love, even considered as a grace, is the love of God as the supreme good--the infinite impersonation of all moral excellence, of holiness, benevolence, justice, mercy. But what is this love, unless it lead to a practical manifestation in the life of that goodness in God which is its object? As a solitary grace in the mind it is a mere sentimental shade, which has no substantial existence. Whatever we really love we try to possess or realize. If we love goodness as an infinite perfection, or as the quality of an infinitely perfect Being, we will strive to realize it in ourselves as a finite perfection; and to realize it, we must not only love, but do it. Loving and doing are distinct, but they are not separable, unless where the power of doing is denied, and then the will becomes the deed, because it is in the continual effort to put itself forth in action. The Lord declared the practical character of all true love when h...
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