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National Duties, and Other Sermons and Addresses

National Duties, and Other Sermons and Addresses

Martineau, James

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150363622
ISBN13: 9781150363627
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.48 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
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. 1903 Excerpt: ...the accusation of associating with sinners, he can afford to rest upon their urgent wants, their out-cast condition alone; he need not step aside, in the spirit of insult, to deny to his accusers the credit of superior righteousness. When they complain of his mingling in intercourse with publicans rather than with themselves, who had a right to the Messiah's countenance and favour, he simply takes them up on their own principles. Admitting them to possess the kind of moral correctness which they claim, there is the less reason to regard them with anxious interest, and apply to them the machinery of reformation. At the same time the following parable, in which his accusers are repre R sented by the elder brother of the prodigal son, intimates Christ's opinion of their virtue; that, however precise in form, it was merciless in spirit, --a selfish claimant on reward, rather than the cheerful tender of an open heart. The cold tempers of theologians, that cannot imagine sympathy given where there is not approval, have perverted our Lord's treatment of guilt, so pure and lofty as well as tender, into a positive preference, --a preference dangerous as well as false, of reformed, or as they are called, converted minds over those that have never lapsed from their progress in Christian excellence. That the painter's art, which seizes on all the attitudes and seasons of strongest passion, should make a favourite of the convert and the Magdalene is not surprising. That the compassion of benevolent hearts should behold in the softening obduracy of sin a true refreshment is no more than natural. But the sentiments of pity and of hope must not be confounded with the sentiments of moral approbation; nor the rational estimates of a true conscience give way before the poetical.

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