The Posthumous Works of the Late Right Reverend John Henry Hobart, D.D, Vol. 3 of 3: With a Memoir of His Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Posthumous Works of the Late Right Reverend John Henry Hobart, D.D, Vol. 3 of 3: With a Memoir of His Life

Luke ii. 25. And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was Just and devout, wait.

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Excerpt from The Posthumous Works of the Late Right Reverend John Henry Hobart, D.D, Vol. 3 of 3: With a Memoir of His Life

"The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; neither indeed can he, because they are spiritually discerned," is a declaration of holy writ, which finds its attestation in the innumerable prejudices and passions which cloud the researches of the understanding, and oppose the most formidable obstacles to the reception of divine truth. It is a declaration further and most conclusively established by the fact, that the human intellect, in its highest state of natural perfection, strengthened and sharpened by the discipline of intense and profound investigation, was unable to draw aside the vail that concealed the spiritual and eternal world. Reason, by her most vigorous efforts, could never settle on a certain basis the principles and rules of virtue; nor could she, by all her soothings, calm the solicitude with which man contemplated that futurity, into the dark abyss of which he was hastening.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.