The Difficulties of Infidelity (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Faber, George Stanley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331613906 ISBN 13 : 9781331613909

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

The theological system of a Christian is, that God whot at sundry times and in divers manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, and by whom also he made the worlds: who, being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of bis power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high. The theological system of the infidel is, that all religions, claiming to be revelations from heaven, are alike impostures upon the blind credulity of mankind; that the only religion, worthy of a philosophical deist, is uninspired natural religion; and that, as human reason alone is amply sufficient to guide us into all needful truth, a divine communication is no less unnecessary in the abstract, than all pretensions to such communication are false in the concrete. If we ask the specific ground, on which the latter system is preferred to the former; we are told, that the rehgion of the Bible is hampered by too many difficulties to be rationally credible :and these difficulties are forthwith produced and expatiated upon with no small degree of triumphant satisfaction. But here a question naturally rises, whether the deistical scheme itself, in all its component parts, be free from difficulties and objections :for that which is preferred to Christianity, on the express score of the difficulties attendant upon revealed religion, ought certainly in reason to be as free as possible from all liability to the unpleasantness of a direct and well-founded retort. In the following discussion, the question now before us is answered in the negative. I ts purpose is to shew, not only that Infidelity has its own proper difficulties as well as Chris Heb. i. 13.
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To the ywrng and rising generation of tlu city of JN ew York this edition of Bifficutties of Infidelity is respectfully dedicatedj by the Publisher. To yo Uwho at times may have been, in some degree, enamoured with the beauties of ho Hneas, the fruits whereof are joy and peace, and the end eternal life, if abode under: you, who are so imminently exposed to the contaminating mfhience of the corrupt sentiments and principles of not a few, who may be compared to twining subtle serpents who lie in wait to deceive the young and inexperienced, and udwatchful, and to seduce them into the mazes of unbelief, and into the labyrinths and sinking sands of infidelity, with all their tremendous consequences, such books as this, through the sanctifying influence of the power of truth, are peculiarly beneficial; and with this object in view, without calculating emolument, it is respectfully offered. After reading Faber on the Difficulties of I nfidelity, inquire for The Power of Religion on the Mind, in Retirement, in A ffliction, and at the Approach of Death, by Lindley Murray. It is a book that should l)e frequently read by every young man. 1B29. .
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331613906
• ISBN 13: 9781331613909
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172