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. 1830 Excerpt: ...structure of our nature, as a divine workmanship, is to make us active in attaining and strengthening good habits and good affections. It is the corruption of nature that makes men abuse their good faculties in subserviency to evil habits and evil affections. Alienation from God and holiness, implies an aversion 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. 1830 Excerpt: ...structure of our nature, as a divine workmanship, is to make us active in attaining and strengthening good habits and good affections. It is the corruption of nature that makes men abuse their good faculties in subserviency to evil habits and evil affections. Alienation from God and holiness, implies an aversion from the due use of our best faculties. It has introduced manifold abuses of them. But there is not one of these abuses which, if seriously reflected on, does not suggest strong incitements to a vigorous improvement of them to the contrary good purposes. If men's natural power of exciting their affections by strong attention, be ofttimes abused by strong attention to the incentives of corrupt and irregular passions, this shows the necessity of greater attention to the proper motives of good and righteous inclinations. If men are ofttimes deeply affected with things they know to be fabulous, this should make us ashamed, if we are not deeply affected with things we know to be true, and at the same time of the greatest importance. If designing men can raise in themselves artificial passions about religious objects, without any sincere love to them, merely for low and unworthy ends, this should stimulate us to endeavour after deeper impressions of the same objects for the most excellent purposes. In the case of artificial devout affections, that for which men are to be blamed, is not their intense meditation on objects of faith; it is not their being deeply affected with these things; it is not their being active in exciting their affections. If the object of their meditation be truth, the fault of their affections lies chiefly in unworthy and corrupt intention. We should endeavour to be more sincere than they, but not more formal. We should avoid their...
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