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Lectures on Spiritual Christianity

Lectures on Spiritual Christianity

Taylor, Isaac

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151212032
ISBN13: 9781151212030
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
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. 1841. Excerpt: ... SPIRITUAL CHRISTIANITY. FIRST LECTURE. There may be those who, in comparing the physical, or even the moral condition of civilized and of barbarous nations, would give the preference to the latter; alleging that, on the whole, more enjoyment is secured, and less suffering entailed by a lower, than by a more advanced development of the social system. But let such a question be determined as it may, yet is it certain that, except as the consequence of national catastrophes, sudden or slow in their operation, no community recedes from the position it has reached; or, by a voluntary act, renounces knowledge and the arts, and embraces barbarism. Advancement, which is the Law, as well of the human mind, individually, as of the social system, forbids a deliberate return to what is more simple, after what is more complex has once been attained; for, to step back on its path, would imply that a people should not merely cease to desire what they have learned to enjoy; but that they should consent no longer to know, what they had ascertained to be true; and should learn to believe as true, what they have discovered to be false; and should persuade themselves to act in a manner which experience has taught them is equally absurd and mischievous. EveD, therefore, if savage life did present itself to the view of a civilized people as a paradise; yet between it and themselves there is interposed a gulf, into which, indeed, many a nation has been plunged headlong, but which none can pass by spontaneous movement. There may too be those, and perhaps they are more than a few, who, knowing little of Christianity except in its incidental connexion with secular affairs, over which it too often throws perplexity;--knowing nothing of its truth, or its energies, or its beauty; and...

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