A Discourse on Mistakes Concerning Religion, Enthusiasm, Experiences, and C (Electronic book text)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3* were all Infidels: We fee the bad Effefts of this oa ** more accounts than one: The conftant infixing on * nothing but Morality hath lately infpired Men's K Heads with this Motion, that revealed Religion is of u little Confederation and Worth; and this hath been * one great occafion of Deifm. n And a few Pages after: "Since fb many preachers have confined their Difcourfes as to the main, to Morality, there hath been lefs Succefs in Preaching than ever. There is a plenty of excellent Difcourfes from the Pulpit, wherein fi the Nature of all moral Offices is fet forth, but not- a withftanding this, there never was lefs Morality in c Mens Lives and Aftions, which fhews that there is fomethingof a higher Nature wanting, and that the bare inculcating of moral Duties and virtuous Living K is not fufficient to hiend Mens Pratices. * It muft be allowed that there is too much Truth in thefe Complaints, and that the Strain of our Divinity has warped much from the Reformation Standard within this Century, as will plainly appear by comparing the Writers of both Times., We abound with learned and ingenious Difcourfes on the Extent and Obligations of natural Religion, ideal Fitnefles and Relations of Things, and the Beauty of moral Reftitude; But thefe fervc rather to amufe than amend the Age, and bring us no nearer to true textit{Cbriftianity than an Hypothefis in natural Philofbphy.. Such airy Speculations have always proved too weak a Foundation for praftical Piety, they want both Solidity and Authority. It is an unpardonable Error in moft of thefe Writers, that they confider human Nature as ftanding in the Ability of a perfecT: Freedom, and therefore inftead of leading the Soul to God in an humble Acknowledgment of its natural Impotence and Corruption, that He may help and 4leal it with renewing...

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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. Excerpt from book: Section 3* were all Infidels: We fee the bad Effefts of this oa ** more accounts than one: The conftant infixing on * nothing but Morality hath lately infpired Men's K Heads with this Motion, that revealed Religion is of u little Confederation and Worth; and this hath been * one great occafion of Deifm. n And a few Pages after: "Since fb many preachers have confined their Difcourfes as to the main, to Morality, there hath been lefs Succefs in Preaching than ever. There is a plenty of excellent Difcourfes from the Pulpit, wherein fi the Nature of all moral Offices is fet forth, but not- a withftanding this, there never was lefs Morality in c Mens Lives and Aftions, which fhews that there is fomethingof a higher Nature wanting, and that the bare inculcating of moral Duties and virtuous Living K is not fufficient to hiend Mens Pratices. * It muft be allowed that there is too much Truth in thefe Complaints, and that the Strain of our Divinity has warped much from the Reformation Standard within this Century, as will plainly appear by comparing the Writers of both Times., We abound with learned and ingenious Difcourfes on the Extent and Obligations of natural Religion, ideal Fitnefles and Relations of Things, and the Beauty of moral Reftitude; But thefe fervc rather to amufe than amend the Age, and bring us no nearer to true textit{Cbriftianity than an Hypothefis in natural Philofbphy.. Such airy Speculations have always proved too weak a Foundation for praftical Piety, they want both Solidity and Authority. It is an unpardonable Error in moft of thefe Writers, that they confider human Nature as ftanding in the Ability of a perfecT: Freedom, and therefore inftead of leading the Soul to God in an humble Acknowledgment of its natural Impotence and Corruption, that He may help and 4leal it with renewing...

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