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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: ON SOME ESSENTIALS OF CHRISTIANITY. P. Has it ever occurred to you to consider whether this charge of being an enemy to religion has been brought in such a shape as to compel the person accused to plead to it ? T. Like any other serious charge, the man who is conscious of innocence ought to confute it. P. If a man were publicly accused of theft, would the magistrate call upon him to disprove the accusation ? T. Not till the grounds on which the charge was made had been stated. P. Might I then fairly ask my accusers to state the grounds ?to produce the proofs on which they based their charge, before I condescended to notice it ? T. That cannot be doubted. P. And if, in answer to my challenge, they had no acts of mine to allege against me, should I be justified in exposing their recklessness and ignorance ? T. They would richly deserve such exposure. P. When an accuser makes a charge which he cannot substantiate, is it lawful to condemn him out of his own mouth, of the very act which he is imputing to another, and of defamation besides ? T. Lawful and most desirable, if the accuser be guilty. P. Tell me, then, to the best of your belief, of what religion yonr friends consider me to be the enemy ? T. Of the Christian religion. P. Of the Christian religion according to any possible interpretation, or only according to some particular interpretation ? T. We never beard them make a distinction betweendifferent interpretations or expositions of Christianity. With them there is but one and the same Christianity since the crucifixion of Christ. P. I know they will not welcome one who intrudes upon their sleepy faith; hut I must insist upon their opening their eyes to facts which are indisputable. However elastic the words which are made to repre...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217272513 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217272517 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 206 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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