The Bible and the Closet (Classic Reprint): Or How We May Read the Scriptures With the Most Spiritual Profit - Couverture souple

Watson, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331486106 ISBN 13 : 9781331486107

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Bible and the Closet

Brown of Haddington, in his general history, has the following remarks: Never perhaps, since the apostolic age, was the Christian system better understood than by the British divines under Crom well. The Puritans, says Robert Hall, are unquestionably the safest of all uninspired guides. The masculine sense, the profound learning, the rich and unequalled unction of the fathers of the modern church, exert a powerful in?uence on the mind, and greatly contribute to form and mature the characters of men.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It ia a proper ground for regret, that a people who owe their origin, social habits, religious privileges and national character, to the Puritans and Non-conformists of England, should manifest so little interest and curiosity, in regard to the names, persons, manners, sufferings, and writings, of their ancestry, as appears to be the case at present in the United States. The members of the churches properly attached to the doctrines of the Non-confoi-mists, have not that lively impression of gratitude aad obligation to the struggles of the Puritans, which should characterize men who enjoy inestimable blessings, purchased by cruel bonds, far exilements, and bloody death. The young are almost ignorant of the church history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and when they do hear of the Puritans, it is probably from some infidel novelist or historian, who describes them as uncouth, sour, ignorant fanatics, or from the bigoted representations of half-popish ecclesiastics, who seem to regard amputation from Rome as a severe affliction. Tlie ordinations of the ministers in Congregational, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches usually take place without any reference to the distinctive principles for which our fathers contended, and which are now gainsayed and ridiculed by men who call Hampden anil Pym traitors, Archbishop Laud a saint, and Charles I. a blosse Jmartyr.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Bible and the Closet: Or How We May Read the Scriptures With the Most Spiritual Profit

It is a proper ground for regret, that a people who owe their origin, social habits, religious privileges and national character, to the Puritans and Non-conformists of England, should manifest so little interest and curiosity, in regard to the names, persons, manners, sufferings, and writings, of their ancestry, as appears to be the case at present in the United States. The members of the churches properly attached to the doctrines of the Non-conformists, have not that lively impression of gratitude and obligation to the struggles of the Puritans, which should characterize men who enjoy inestimable blessings, purchased by cruel bonds, far exilements, and bloody death. The young are almost ignorant of the church history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and when they do hear of the Puritans, it is probably from some infidel novelist or historian, who describes them as uncouth, sour, ignorant fanatics, or from the bigoted representations of half-popish ecclesiastics, who seem to regard amputation from Rome as a severe affliction.

The ordinations of the ministers in Congregational, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches usually take place without any reference to the distinctive principles for which our fathers contended, and which are now gainsayed and ridiculed by men who call Hampden anil Pym traitors, Archbishop Laud a saint, and Charles I. a blessed martyr.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331486106
• ISBN 13: 9781331486107
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 132
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