The Elements of Morality
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ISBN13: 9780217384261
Paperback|9780217384261
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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: the body t/te Church. To this Body, thus united in Christ, belong unity in itself, perpetual existence, and the possession of religious Truth, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This Body is the Universal or Catholic Church of Christ. 591. The Association of Believers in Christ, of which we have spoken, the Church, is bound together by means of certain habitual formal social acts. There is one such act by which members of the Church are admitted into it, namely, Baptism. There is another such act by which they commemorate their union with Christ according to his Command, namely, the Lord's Supper. There are acts by which they express their affections towards God, namely, acts of worship, Prayer and Praise. There are acts in which they express their Christian belief, or receive Christian Instruction from their Teachers; Profession of Faith, and Preaching. All these are Christian Ordinances. 592. The Souls of men are often also called their Spirits, especially when they are considered as the subjects of God's government. His government extending over such subjects is his Spiritual Kingdom. Hence religious matters are called Spiritual: and to these, as the concerns of an eternal world, are opposed temporal or secular matters, which belong only to time or to this world (tempw, seculum). Chapter III. CHRISTIAN MORALITY. 593. We have now to treat of Christian Morality; not as being a different Morality from that Rational Morality of which we have hitherto treated; but as throwing new light upon the Morality of mere Reason, and giving it new supports. The Christian Religion recognizes the same Duties, which we have put forward on grounds of Reason; Duties of Benevolence, Justice, Truth, Purity, Order; and the general Duty of Moral and Intellectual Progress. But the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217384261 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217384269 |
| Weight | 1.33 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.92 In |
| List Price | $21.70 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 412 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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