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. 1887 Excerpt: ... will, with regard both to himself and to all external things, to the mind and will of the all-wise and all-loving God, and to His deXrjfia as already revealed in the creation and constitution of the world, and more fully in the conscience and history of man. True love to God therefore includes true love to oneself and ...
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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. 1887 Excerpt: ... will, with regard both to himself and to all external things, to the mind and will of the all-wise and all-loving God, and to His deXrjfia as already revealed in the creation and constitution of the world, and more fully in the conscience and history of man. True love to God therefore includes true love to oneself and one's neighbour (Matt. xsii. 37 f.; 1 John v. 1), and thus it gives the individual and communities their due position of co-ordination. One and the same spirit of love binds together the numerous energies of the individual in harmonious unity, and employs all the manifold varieties of individual character in the service of that organized life of love, that ethical cosmos or kingdom, in which all human capacities reach their full natural activity, and which also has everything prepared for it which is necessary to its growth. The world cannot fail to reach its goal; the infinite creative power and wisdom of God, as well as the ranks of the aeons, are enlisted in its service. And so one day God will see reflected from His world, in the manifold diversity of its organized life, an image of His own perfections--created indeed, but still pure and majestic; and PERMANENCE OF EARTHLY PRODUCTIONS. 29 0 humanity, together with the higher world of spirits, will form the perfected city of God, in which nothing will be lost that was ever won by moral effort upon earth. 5. But now, when we turn our attention to the transitoriness and death which are in the world, the question arises--How can we ascribe an inward moral, and therefore eternal worth to earthly products, relations, and societies in themselves, 9eeiug that they are conditioned by nature, which is fleeting, and by matter? It is true that persons alone of all earthly existences have immortality, ...
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