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. 1839 Excerpt: ...most miserable." We might well envy the condition of the Jew, who, though loaded with precepts, could know with certainty whether he obeyed or failed. But how can we, when we embrace one particular Orthodoxy, be sure that we have not chosen a belief the very opposite of that which the metaphysical rule of right ...
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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. 1839 Excerpt: ...most miserable." We might well envy the condition of the Jew, who, though loaded with precepts, could know with certainty whether he obeyed or failed. But how can we, when we embrace one particular Orthodoxy, be sure that we have not chosen a belief the very opposite of that which the metaphysical rule of right thinking, on what is beyond the pale of reason, intended? The Jew (to mention one out of a multitude of instances) well knew the composition of the Water of Separation; but what prophet can quiet men's scruples as to the ingredients of a creed, that shall contain neither more nor less than the true metaphysical deductions which may be drawn from the letter of the Old and the New Testament? The letter that killeth is declared by Paul not to belong to his ministry: could he, then, have been the minister of a dogmatic faith--of that double-edged sword, which, for so many centuries, is supposed to have been killing souls--ay, and bodies too--to right and left? Could he preach the accursing, the anathematizing, Gospel of Councils, Popes, and Synods, Catholic and Protestant, ancient and modern? Can any mortal calculate the millions of millions of souls which must, at this moment, be irrevocably sunk in everlasting perdition, Whosoever will be saved, must thus think of the Trinity.--Athan. Creed. if the Letter of the various Orthodoxies has been allowed to kill according to the wishes of their respective supporters?--if heresy be "a sin unto death?" But let us suppose, for a moment (though I fear to weaken the impression of this argument), that St. Paul and his fellow labourers, the other apostles, immediate disciples of Christ, had preached a dogmatic faith, the genuineness of which was to be proved by its conformity with some Letter, i. e. ...
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