The Bible Society Against the Church and State (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. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... felt, and not tortured. Yet it is placed in the front of the " venerable Society's" Reports The Scriptures never contemplate the conversion of the heathen as effected, or to be effected, by the voluntary and laborious perusal of unauthenticated volumes, without "a witness," without" an interpreter." On the contrary, it is represented as effected by men determined to combat ignorance and obstinacy, with the powerful weapon of patient persuasion--men whom no danger could daunt, no resistance repel; who, "for the great"ness of the reward," could submit to be M in journey"ings often; in perils of waters; in perils of robbers; "in perils in the city; in perils in the wilderness; in "perils in the sea;--in weariness and painfulness; in "watchings often; in hunger and thirst; in cold and "nakedness." Does it convey no imputation, on the mercy of our Redeemer, to suppose that he would have subjected St. Paul, and his other faithful Apostles, to such unspeakable hardships, if" Bibles, in their naked simplicity," in manuscript or print, could, with any degree of effect, be substituted for their missionary labours? The example also of Christ labouring for the conversion of his own countrymen--how awfully is it despised or disregarded by our modern "Apostolic Institution." "Jesus went about all the cities and "villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching u the Gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sicku Mess, and every disease among the people." It would be an insult to the understanding of the reader to attempt to prove, that no part of the spirit of this, or the following passage, is discernible in the practice of the Bible...