The Development of English Theology in the Nineteenth Century, 1800-1860

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1913 - 486 pages
 

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Page 289 - From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion : I know no other religion ; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion ; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
Page 329 - Evidences of Christianity ! I am weary of the word. Make a man feel the want of it ; rouse him, if you can, to the self-knowledge of his need of it ; and you may safely trust it to its own evidence, — remembering only the express declaration of Christ himself: No man cometh to me, unless the Father leadeth him.
Page 360 - Await the issue. In all battles, if you await the issue, each fighter has prospered according to his right. His right and his might, at the close of the account, were one and the same. He has fought with all his might, and in exact proportion to all his right he has prevailed. His very death is no victory over him. He dies indeed; but his work lives, very truly lives.
Page 379 - WHAT we, when face to face we see The Father of our souls, shall be, John tells us, doth not yet appear ; Ah ! did he tell what we are here ! A mind for thoughts to pass into, A heart for loves to travel through, Five senses to detect things near, Is this the whole that we are here ? Rules baffle instincts — instincts rules, Wise men are bad — and good are fools, Facts evil — wishes vain appear, We cannot go, why are we here ? O may we for assurance...
Page 225 - In an individual, a God-man, the properties and functions which the church ascribes to Christ contradict themselves ; in the idea of the race, they perfectly agree. Humanity it the union of the two natures, God become man, the infinite manifesting itself in the finite...
Page 225 - ... it is the sinless existence, for the course of its development is a blameless one ; pollution cleaves to the individual only, and does not touch the race or its history. It is Humanity that dies, rises, and ascends to Heaven ; for from the negation of its phenomenal life there ever proceeds a higher spiritual life ; from the suppression of its mortality as a personal, national, and terrestrial spirit, arises its union with the infinite spirit of the heavens.
Page 432 - ... where the undeveloped may grow up under new conditions, the stunted may become strong, and the perverted be restored. And when the Christian church, in all its branches, shall have fulfilled its sublunary office, and its founder shall have surrendered his kingdom to the Great Father, all, both small and great, shall find a refuge in the bosom of the universal parent, to repose, or be quickened into higher life, in the ages to come, according to his will.
Page 358 - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? Neither is it beyond the sea that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 451 - Why may not justification by faith have meant the peace of mind, or sense of Divine approval, which comes of trust in a righteous God, rather than a fiction of merit by transfer ? St.
Page 326 - Whenever by selfsubjection to this universal Light, the Will of the Individual, the particular Will, has become a Will of Reason, the man is regenerate : and Reason is then the Spirit of the regenerated man, whereby the Person is capable of a quickening intercommunion with the Divine Spirit.

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