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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. I KNOW of no authority, ancient or modern, for the doctrine I am about to promulgate. I have heard of something of the kind in Vinet: but I have searched his writings, though not, I confess, all of them, and find adverse, rather than favoring, intimations. It makes one shiver to go on so exposed a road, without any company; but there are certain mitigating circumstances which it is fair to quote. I. In the first place, this book would not have been so much as thought of, but at the suggestion of the Bible. Philosophy, for the person of Christ, seems vain and impertinent. We cannot employ it even afterward, when our faith has been revealed. We confess nothing of research or venture in this direction. It certainly soothes a timid scruple to know, that, even if this work were a mistake, the promptings to it have been altogether Scriptural; I mean by that, it has been in reading the Bible, that While going through the press, a friend sends us a volume of Irving. We are not in time thoroughly to study his belief; but find him accenting the peccableness of Christ; speaking of the graciousness of His being kept holy; but not accounting for it by federal descent; and, therefore, receding too much away from it again, when arraigned for it as heresy. the suggestion has come, of the mistake of the prevailing Christologies. There, too, we invite the debate. We suspect that what is old has been a philosophy; and we offer the new to be settled entirely by revelation. 2. In the second place, we are cheered by great simplicity of the texts. 3. And in the third place, we hope to make this appear. The very newness may be one harbinger of hope. There having been no trial in the church, and no statements opposite recorded in the world, --who knows...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217748629 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217748627 |
| Weight | 0.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.12 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 52 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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