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. 1844 Excerpt: ...of regeneration--a mere arrangement of means and ends for our personal sanctification. We may, with great probability, suppose that this live through his righteousness. Comment by Coleridge. Lit. Remains, Vol. III. p. 12. Thou madest him little lower than the angels. Prayer Book. Power + idea = angel. Idea--power = man ...
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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. 1844 Excerpt: ...of regeneration--a mere arrangement of means and ends for our personal sanctification. We may, with great probability, suppose that this live through his righteousness. Comment by Coleridge. Lit. Remains, Vol. III. p. 12. Thou madest him little lower than the angels. Prayer Book. Power + idea = angel. Idea--power = man or Prometheus. Coleridge. Ibid. p. 13. My mind praying this verse, Ps. lxxi. 16, in our Prayer Book version is turned to the right appreciation of the Scriptures, and in what sense the Bible may be called the Word of God, and how, and under what conditions the unity of the Spirit is translucent through the letter, which read as the letter merely, is the word of this and that pious, but fallible and imperfect man. Alas, for the superstition where the words themselves are made to be the Spirit! O might I live to utter all my meditations on this most concerning point! Lit. Remains, Vol. IV. p. 6. The last citation is from " Notes on Luther's Table Talk;" and in this connection, may be added a passage from Jeremy Taylor, touching the Liturgy, which it seems was inspired. The emendation of the Scripture cited above, How that Christ died through our sins, is ominous. But the plain and pious Christian will still believe that Christ died for our sins; made a propitiation for sin. As for the Algebraic statement, that power added to idea equals an angel, and power subtracted from idea equals man, or the pagan Prometheus, it is a problem which the reader must solve for himself--if he can. We untranscendentalists are incompetent to meddle with so high a branch of spiritual mathematics: nor can we pray the 16th verse of Psalm lxxi. in the Coleridgian spirit. But we have not so great fears of what Mr. Coleridge so often in his works calls " ...
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