Eight Sermons Preached (as Lady Moyer's Lectures) in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, in the Year 1757; To Which Is Added, a Latin Oration, S (Paperback)

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. 1797 edition. Excerpt: ... testimony of us, who have seen them. How these things can be, is equally above our reason, who know the fact by having seen it, and theirs, -who believe it upon our testimony. To us it is a matter of sensible knowledge, to them it is an object of faith, to both a thing incomprehensible, or a mystery; and yet there cannot be a plainer or more intelligible proposition than that there " is such' a power as magnetism, of great practical use in navigation." Now if the objectors to mysteries in religion will admit this illustration of the difference between things above, and things contrary to reason, what, but adisinclination to the whole of the Gospel, can tempt them to be thus inconsistent with themselves? The substanceof what has been here offered, is comprized in the introductory part of that excellent summary of our faith, called th$ Athanasian Creed: Whosoever will be saved, (i. e.) be entitled to covenanted salvation upon the gospel terms, bisore all things, (i. e.) as the foundation of all virtue and obedience, it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith, (i. e.) the faith which Christ requires of every member of his catholic, or universal church, (viz.) a right belief of his relation to each of the divine Persons, into whose name he was baptized: which faith, except every one, who has the Gospel proposed to him, and cannot plead invincible ignorance, da keep whole and undefled, without doubt, he pall peri/h everlastingly. The Creed, before it enters upon an explicit declaration of the scripture doctrine of the trinity, begins with engaging our attention by the declaration of our blessed Saviour himself, that we are bound to receive the doctrines of the Gospel, under the same awful sanctions, which enforce the precepts of it: and...