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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... THE EMPEROR JULIAN, SECTION I. CHRISTIANITY IN RELATION TO THE AGE IN WHICH IT FIRST APPEARED AND WAS PROPAGATED. God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they ...
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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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... THE EMPEROR JULIAN, SECTION I. CHRISTIANITY IN RELATION TO THE AGE IN WHICH IT FIRST APPEARED AND WAS PROPAGATED. God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being.--Acts xvii. 26-28. No new epoch is wont to commence in the history of mankind without having been previously announced by some signs or other; no truth, deeply affecting the life of men, has ever been widely spread, which individual witnesses, in their struggle with the age that was not yet ripe for it, have not expressed. So also, on the other side, it comes to pass, that individuals attempt to bring back a state of things which is no longer adapted to human society. They set themselves afresh and with great energy to give expression to that which can no longer retain its dominion over men. The old and the new are thus displayed in lively contrast and opposition to each other, and the discovery is made, how little it is in the power of an individual to create any thing, and how little an individual can avail in a contest with Providence, guiding and fashioning the spirit of the times according to its own everlasting decrees. We see an example of this in the Emperor Julian. Inasmuch as he endeavored to make that improved form which polytheism had assumed before its final fall, the dominant religion, and opposed it to Christianity, we must speak, first of all, of the causes through which the ancient polytheistic religion again acquired new strength; of the relative position in which it...
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