Errors Regarding Religion and Thoughts on Prayer at the Present Time
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ISBN13: 9780217209182
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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: PART II. EARLY CORRUPTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY. I. The whole of history, and especially the history of religion, is but a commentary on the alienation of the fallen mind of man from the truth, and on that evil heart of unbelief which is ever seeking to depart from the living God. The immediate descendants of Noah, by their speedy forsaking the true religion, showed how soon an unwritten revelation is lost; and if rites are preserved, as the rite of sacrifice was, they are perpetuated without any just reference to the object they were designed to point out. And, when the truth is once lost, we perceive how vain are all unassisted attempts to recover it, even when every surrounding circumstance is most favourable. The history of the Jews, on the other hand, shows the tendency of mankind to depart from a written revelation upheld by sensible interpositions of Providence, and by manifest displays of Divine power. Though the Jewish religion had preserved in their purity the doctrines which constituted theprimeval revelation given to mankind, with the addition of new discoveries of Divine goodness and holiness, and though this dispensation, being maintained by permanent writings, as well as by renewed intimations of the Divine will, could not be obliterated from the minds of men in the same manner as the patriarchal dispensation, yet the Jews ever showed an equal tendency to relapse into the same errors as the other nations, though that tendency was continually counteracted. There is no proof that the Jews ever embraced the idolatry of the Egyptians, in its peculiar details;;but, from their proneness to sense, finding the extreme difficulty of keeping the notion of the Deity in minds immersed in matter, and engrossed with the present animal life, they were ever seeking for some v...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217209182 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217209181 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 148 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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