A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections
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ISBN13: 9780217344005
Paperback|9780217344005
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: though the affections have not their seat in the body, yet the constitution of the body may very much contribute to the present emotion of the mind. And the degree of religion is rather to be judged of by the fixedness and strength of the habit that is exercised in affection, whereby holy affection is habitual, than by the degree of the present exercise; and the strength of that habit is not always in proportion to outward effects and manifestations, or inward effects, in the hurry and vehemence, and sudden changes of the course of the thoughts of the mind. But yet it is evident, that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good, which does not produce holy affection in the heart; no habit or principle in the heart is good, which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good, which does not proceed from such exercises. CHAPTER III. Some inferences deduced from the proposition laid down. 1. We may hence learn how great their error is, who are for discarding all religious affections, as having nothing solid or substantial in them. There seems to be too much of a disposition this way prevailing in this land at this time. Because many who, in the late extraordinary season, appeared to have great religious affections, did not manifest a right temper of mind, and ran into many errors, in the time of their affection, and the heat of their zeal; and because the high affections of so many seem to be so soon come to nothing, and some who seemed to be mightily raised and swallowed up with joy and zeal for a while, seemed to have returned like the dog to his vomit: hence religious affections in general are grown out of credit with great numbers, as though true religion did not a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217344005 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217344003 |
| Weight | 1.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $26.34 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 324 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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