Esse and Posse; A Comparison of Divine Eternal Laws and Powers as Severally Indicated in Fact, Faith and Record (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...than the bass voice in an oratorio. This would be natural enough in men ignorant as they are confessed to have been. But'the more enlightened authorities--enlightened that is up to the illuminating power of the older Scriptures--plainly saw the incompatibility of Jesus with Moses and his Devil, and at once, and throughout, opposed and disowned Him altogether. In the face of such a fact as this, how can it be pretended that the New is the logical outcome and continuation of the Old dispensation? They are distinct religions. It were as reasonable to assert not only the possibility of a blackthorn bearing grapes, but that it actually does so. The terrible divinity who storms and rages through the more ancient records could be no father of divine or human love, pity, and forgiveness. The fear, it may be the conviction, of the hierarchy that they had all along been adoring a wrong, or attributing false principles to the true God, struck them to the heart, and led to the savage ferocity, for they demanded torture as well as death, with which they hunted down their Victim. Steeped in blood as were alike their history, their creed, and their code, it was natural that nothing but His blood also should satisfy them, and they despatched Him accordingly, as their forefathers had ever slain His like; or, as they would doubtless have pleaded, offered him up as an-atonement to propitiate their angry divinity. It was meet, they said, that one man should die for the people, and they sought to soothe their Idol with--a murder. They behaved, in short, like so many enraged Druids, probably worse. They had most likely at first formed some very faint notion that Jesus might possibly turn out to be the king predicted in their prophecies, and they were disappointed. Is it to be im...