The Christian observer Volume 16 - Softcover

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. 1818 Excerpt: ...from all reference to the creed which forms the basis of their discussions; but we charge them with too oflen selecting such detached articles only as square with the disputant's present purpose, by furnishing materials for praise or that the abettors' of a system professedly destined to enlighten, refine, and beatify the nations are themselves classed by their own reporter among the worthless of mankind. It was for persons thus avowedly stigmatized that a sacrifice so costly was effected;--I term it cosily, because 1 cannot be otherwise than struck by the severe grandeur of the effort. Had, in censure, in disjunction from the deed, this last pledge of your Matimmediate context, or general ter's sincerity been offered for the tenor of the confession. '-ions and daughters of innocence, orf;:«#" virtue bleeding under the from his redeemed church a praxs scourge of unmerited calamity; I tical similitude to his own spotless should so far at least have ap-example; nay, that the self-sanw phtuded tlie consistency of your Epistles which supplied the objeo faith, in the provision it made for tor with the ground of his antiihr future and durable remuneration of the good; but, if its my Christian sophistry supply also incontrovertible proofs, that the steries, thus disclosed to the popu-Gospel, though on the one hand it lace by the imprudent unreserved-may be termed, what it certainly ness of the Pauline letters, not is, in its remedial character, th« merely praved out an intelligible intimation, that such as have retained their original purity must degrade into guilt, in order to qualify themselves for the reception of your Gospel;--if this licentious doctrine be the blossom and fruit of the new philosophy, 1 must on my own part, as personally involve...