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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: ESSAY III. On the Scriptural Character of God.. Ivery attentive and intelligent student of the Bible will perceive, that to preserve or recover man from idolatry, by instructing him in the character and perfections of the one living and true God, and the way in which he would be worshipped and served, was, in some respects, the principal end for which revelation was vouchsafed. The jealous care of Jehovah to distinguish between himself and every idol, and to secure the glory to himself without allowing any of it to be given to another; with the terrible denunciations pronounced against idolaters, and the severe judgments executed upon them, must attract the notice of all who are conversant with the sacred oracles, and convince every impartial person that idolatry is the greatest of all sins, atheism alone excepted. Yet in this, a? in other things, the wisdom of man, which is foolishness with God, has led numbers to adopt a contrary opinion: so that, whilst an elegant and admired poet has employed his fascinating ingenuity to persuade the inhabitants of a christian country, that God is worshipped with equal acceptance, by saint, by savage, and by sage, or whether he be called Jeho- vah, Jove, or Lord,1 (in which connexion Lord may signify Baal;) it is also become a fashionable principle of modern rational divinity, that all such distinctions are immaterial, and all religions very much alike, if men be only sincere in their way. Indeed, numbers seem to think that what they call bigotry, though wholly free from intolerance or persecution, is worse than, any mental errors, even in respect of the object of religious worship and that candour and liberality of sentiment are more important virtues, than the supreme love and spiritual adoration of Jehovah, as distin...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217900850 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217900852 |
| Weight | 0.97 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 In |
| List Price | $21.98 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 296 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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