This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... "Divine truth, urged home upon the soul by the Holy Spirit, may appeal so strongly to the sinner's sense of danger and desire of happiness, as to suspend the control of the selfish principle in this act of fixed attention to his real interest." pp. 30, 31. This act ol fixed attention, he tells us, in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... "Divine truth, urged home upon the soul by the Holy Spirit, may appeal so strongly to the sinner's sense of danger and desire of happiness, as to suspend the control of the selfish principle in this act of fixed attention to his real interest." pp. 30, 31. This act ol fixed attention, he tells us, in a subsequent paragragh, is " prompted by a regard to happiness;" that is, not by selfishness, but by self-love. But 1 would ask, when the sinner resolved to attend to tiis real interests, was he supremely selfish, or was he not? II he was, this act was a selfish act; for the Reviewer, himself says, "There is no law of human action, more obvious, or more universally admitted in the intercourse of life, than that a man's supreme affection or governing purpose while active in the mind, will dictate and control all his specific voluntary acts." p. 23. And who will affirm that any act of the mind dictated by selfishness has a tendency to suspend selfishness? The Reviewer says, " We think no one." But if the sinner was not supremely selfish when he resolved to attend to his real'interests, then, according to the Reviewer's philosophy, the selfish principle was suspended antecedent to this " act of voluntary attention: "--and the question returns, how was it suspended?" To renounce the selfish principle," the Reviewer tells us, " is one thing--to choose God as our portion, is another." He also tells us, " that before the act of the will or heart, in which the sinner first prefers God to every other object, the object of the preference must be viewed or estimated as the greatest good. Before the object can be viewed as the greatest good, it must be compared with other objects, as both are sources or means of good. Before this act of comparing, there...
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