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So the enemy despoiled human nature, the\r\nbride of God, by his deceitful counsels, and she was driven into a\r\nstrange country; poor and miserable, a prisoner and oppressed,\r\npersecuted by her enemies, as if she could never more return to her\r\ncountry and the grace of reconciliation. But when God saw that the\r\ntime was come, and took pity on the sufferings of His beloved, He\r\nsent His only Son to earth, in a rich abode and a glorious\r\ntemplethat is to say, in the body of the Virgin Mary. There he\r\nmarried His bride, our nature, and united it to His Person, by means\r\nof the pure blood of the noble Virgin. The priest who joined the\r\nBride and Bridegroom was the Holy Spirit; the angel Gabriel\r\nannounced the marriage, and the blessed Virgin gave her consent. So\r\nChrist, our faithful Bridegroom, united our nature to His, and\r\nvisited us in a strange land, and taught us the manners of heaven\r\nand perfect fidelity. And He laboured and fought like a champion\r\nagainst our enemy, and He broke the prison and gained the victory,\r\nand His death slew our death, and His blood delivered us, and He set\r\nus free in baptism under the life-giving waters, and enriched us by\r\nHis sacraments and gifts, that we might go forth, as He said,\r\nadorned with all virtues, and might meet Him in the abode of His\r\nglory, to enjoy Him throughout all eternity.\nNow the Master of truth, Christ, saith: \"See, the Bridegroom\r\ncometh, go forth to meet Him.\" In these words Jesus, our Lover,\r\nteaches us four things. In the first word He gives a command, for He\r\nsays, \"See.\" Those who remain blind, and those who resist this\r\ncommand are condemned without exception. In the next word He shows\r\nus what we shall seethat is to say, the coming of the Bridegroom,\r\nwhen He says, \"The Bridegroom cometh.\" In the third place, He\r\nteaches us and commands us what we ought to do, when He says, \"Go\r\nforth.\" In the fourth place, when He says, \"to meet Him,\" He shows\r\nus the reward of all our works and of all our life, for that must be\r\na loving \"going forth,\" by which we meet our Bridegroom.\nWe shall explain and analyse these words in three ways, first,\r\naccording to the ordinary mode of the beginner's lifethat is to\r\nsay, the active life, which is necessary to all who would be saved.\r\nIn the second place, we shall analyse these words by applying them\r\nto the inner life, exalted and loving, to which many men arrive by\r\nthe virtues and by the grace of God. Thirdly, we shall explain them\r\nby applying them to the superessential and contemplative life, to\r\nwhich few attain and which few can taste, because of the supreme\r\nsublimity of this life.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 4664 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Inge, William Ralph \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 1, 2003 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Inge, William Ralph,1860-1954 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212442304669,"sku":"gb-4664-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/4664_c83b51f3-e8c6-4309-a876-91eb3b7b5d9e.jpg?v=1671278575"},{"product_id":"the-life-of-the-venerable-mother-mary-of-the-incarnation-gb-6486","title":"The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe materials for the following Biography have been gathered principally\r\nfrom \"The Life of the Mother Mary of the Incarnation\" by her son, and\r\nfrom \"The History of the Ursuline Monastery at Quebec,\" by a member of\r\nthat community, the former published in 1677; the latter in 1863.\nThe Life of the Venerable Mother by her son, is founded partly on her own\r\ncommunications regarding the graces with which she had been favoured, and\r\npartly on her correspondence with himself extending over the thirty years\r\nwhich she passed in Canada. 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Mr.\r\nWentworth says, that he wishes to furnish Mr. Bastow, a friend of\r\nhis, who is writing the history of New Hampshire, with this\r\ndocument. As Mr. Bastow has taken the proper steps to obtain\r\ncorrect information, all that I shall ask at his hands is that he\r\npublish the account entire, ungarnished, and without\r\nmisrepresentation.\r\n\n\r\nI was born in the town of Sharon, Windsor co., Vermont, on the\r\n23d of December, A.D. 1805. When ten years old my parents removed\r\nto Palmyra, New York, where we resided about four years, and from\r\nthence we removed to the town of Manchester.\r\n\n\r\nMy father was a farmer and taught me the art of husbandry. 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And I was expressly commanded to \"go not after\r\nthem,\" at the same time receiving a promise that the fullness of\r\nthe gospel should at some future time be made known unto me.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 6720 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Smith, Joseph \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Smith, Joseph \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215366291613,"sku":"gb-6720-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/6720.jpg?v=1671284802"},{"product_id":"memoir-of-father-vincent-de-paul-religious-of-la-trappe-gb-6733","title":"Memoir of Father Vincent de Paul religious of La Trappe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMemoir of Father Vincent de Paul; religious of La Trappe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reply of Maximilian to the wealthy courtier who tendered him a\r\ngoodly purse of gold for a title of nobility, was worthy of that\r\nemperor: \"I can enrich thee,\" he said, \"but only thy own virtue can\r\nenoble thee\" All true grandeur, excellence, and dignity, are the\r\noffspring of virtue. Even the most renowned oracles of paganism\r\nproclaim this, and the very persecutors of holiness are often\r\nconstrained to pay homage to their victim. No wonder, then, that\r\nwhenever we are privileged to find one of those rare mortals, whom\r\nvirtue has unmistakably marked as her own, we lovingly attach an\r\nexceptional importance to everything connected with his history. Such\r\nassuredly was he whose \"account of what befel\" him during his first\r\nten years in America, is now for the first time published in English.\r\nA brief sketch of the religious Order to which he belonged, of the\r\nlife he led, and of the Monastery he founded, may give added interest\r\nto his own simple and edifying narrative.\nWhat Scripture terms \"the world,\" and so emphatically denounces as\r\nsuch, is the poisonous source of the mother-evils described by St.\r\nJohn as \"the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the\r\neyes, and the pride of life.\" Flight from the contamination of this\r\nthreefold inordinate love of pleasures, riches and honors, being\r\nessential to salvation, is most easily, most surely and most\r\nmeritoriously achieved by those who, in answer to a Divine call,\r\nconsecrate and give themselves wholly to God, by the practice of the\r\nevangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience. Those who\r\nembrace this angelic profession form the choice portion of the fold\r\nof Christ. They rank as His spouses, and, by the holy ambition of\r\ntheir virgin love, console Him for the craven defections or the cold\r\nindifference of so many Christians.\nAll Christians animated by the spirit of Jesus are religious, just\r\nas they are holy, and kings and priests (I Peter 2,9). Such is the\r\nunity of the marvellous body of Christ, the Church, whose soul is\r\ninfinite love, that her every member shares, in some sense and\r\nmeasure, all her sublime prerogatives. But as God willed that in His\r\nfamily some goods should be common to all, so He likewise decreed\r\nthat other goods should be reserved to comparatively few, and through\r\nthese chosen and privileged ones benefit the rest. Hence, as besides\r\nthis elementary royalty and priesthood conferred by baptism, there\r\nare, according to the express order of God superior and official\r\nroyalties and priesthoods, in like manner besides the fundamental\r\nreligion, which is the vital breath of every soul in a state of\r\ngrace, there is a religion more eminent, more definite, more perfect.\r\nThus as there is here below a sacerdotal and royal state, so likewise\r\nis there a religious state which is confined to those only who bind\r\nthemselves by vows to a monastic life. It is evident, therefore, that\r\nwhen Catholics use the expression \"religious Order,\" or term a monk\r\nor nun \"a religious,\" they are perfectly justified in doing so, the\r\ncavillings of Dr. Trench to the contrary notwithstanding.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 6733 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Vincent de Paul, Father \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Vincent de Paul, Father,1768-1853 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215367274653,"sku":"gb-6733-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/6733.jpg?v=1671284847"},{"product_id":"the-origin-and-permanent-value-of-the-old-testament-gb-8566","title":"The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the past generation the Old Testament has commanded equally with\r\nthe New the enthusiastic and devoted study of the great body of biblical\r\nscholars throughout the world. Two out of every three graduate students\r\nin our universities who specialize in the general field of biblical\r\nliterature choose the Old as the special centre of their work. At the\r\nsame time the tendency of the rank and file of the Christian church\r\nwithin the past decade has undoubtedly been to neglect the older\r\nTestament. Preachers as a rule select less than a fourth of their texts\r\nfrom it; the prevailing courses of Bible study devote proportionately\r\nless time to it; and teachers and scholars in the great majority of\r\ncases turn to the Old Testament with much less enthusiasm than they\r\ndo to the New. Why are these two great currents setting in opposite\r\ndirections, and what are the causes of the present popular neglect of\r\nthe Old Testament? If the Old Testament should be relegated to a second\r\nplace in our working canon of the Bible, let us frankly and carefully\r\ndefine our reasons. If, on the other hand, the prevailing apathy and\r\nneglect are due to ignorance of the real character and value of the Old\r\nTestament, let as lose no time in setting ourselves right.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 8566 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Kent, Charles Foster \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 1, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Kent, Charles Foster,1867-1925 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215526494365,"sku":"gb-8566-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/8566.jpg?v=1671292251"},{"product_id":"a-visit-to-the-monastery-of-la-trappe-in-1817-gb-10864","title":"A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817\r - With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris.\r\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*[NOTE: Suitable reproductions of the illustrations were not available at the time this document was prepared. Place holders have been included in the text for possible insertions at a later date]\nLIST OF THE PLATES.\r\n\r\n\r\nView of the Monastery of La Trappe\r\nRuins of the Ancient Church of ditto\r\nRuins of the Gateway of the ancient Chartreuse\r\nLes Noyades (vignette)\r\nGrotto of Hlose at Clisson\r\nTomb of Ablard and Hlose\r\nRuins of Ablard's House\r\nGranite Rock in the Garenne\r\nLe Conntable de Clisson (outline)\r\nRuins of Clisson\r\nTour des Plerins\r\nMoulin aux chvres\r\nTour d'Oudon on the River Loire\r\nView of St. Florent\r\nTomb (etching)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPREFACE.\nIn justice to the public and to myself, I must disavow for the\r\nfollowing pages any higher literary pretension than what is conveyed\r\nby the simple title of \"Notes,\" under which I have ventured to give\r\nthem to the world. I had no other aim in writing but to occupy as\r\nrationally as I could the hours of travel, and no other object in\r\npublishing but to impart to others as plainly as I could a portion of\r\nthe pleasure I myself experienced. It has somewhere been remarked to\r\nthis effect, that if every man of common understanding were to put\r\ndown the daily thoughts and occurrences of his life, candidly and\r\nunaffectedly as he experienced them, he must necessarily produce\r\nsomething of interest to his fellow men, and make a book, which,\r\nthough not enlivened by wit, dignified by profundity of reasoning, nor\r\nvaluable by extent of research, yet no man perhaps should throw aside\r\nwith either weariness or disgust.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 10864 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Fellowes, W. D. 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He is\r\nfamiliar with the ordinary places of worship, at least as features in,\r\nthe picture of town or village. Here is the parish church where the\r\nEnglish episcopal order has succeeded to the Roman; yonder is the more\r\nmodern dissenting chapel, homely or ornate. But, now and then, among the\r\nnon-episcopal buildings we find what is called distinctively a 'Meeting\r\nHouse,' or more briefly a 'Meeting,' which may perhaps be styled 'Old,'\r\n'New,' or 'Great'. Its architecture usually corresponds with the\r\nsimplicity of its name. Plain almost to ugliness, yet not without some\r\ndegree of severe dignity, stand these old barn-like structures of\r\nbrickoccasionally of stone; bearing the mellowing touch of time,\r\nsurrounded by a little overshadowed graveyard, they often add a peculiar\r\nquaintness and solemnity to the scene. Mrs. Gaskell has described one\r\nsuch in her novel Ruth, and admirers of her art should know well that\r\nher own grave lies beside the little sanctuary she pictured so lovingly.\nSometimes, however, the surroundings of the ancient chapel are less\r\nattractive. It stands, it may be, in some poverty-stricken corner or\r\ncourt of a town or city. Whatever picturesqueness it may have had once\r\nhas long since vanished. Unlovely decay, an air of desolation, symptoms\r\nof neglect, present a mournful sight, and one wonders how much longer\r\nthe poor relic will remain. Many places of the kind have already been\r\nswept away; others have been renovated, enlarged, and kept more worthy\r\nof their use. Not all the Meeting Houses are of one kind. Independents,\r\nBaptists, and Friends, each possess some of them. Now and again the\r\nnotice-board tells us that this is a 'Presbyterian' place of worship,\r\nbut a loyal Scot who yearns for an echo of the kirk would be greatly\r\nsurprised on finding, as he would if he entered, that the doctrine and\r\nworship there is not Calvinistic in any shape whatever,\r\nbutUnitarian.\nA similar surprise awaits the visitor to New England, it may be even a\r\ngreater. For if he should tread In the footsteps of the Pilgrim Fathers\r\nand find the 'lineal descendants' of their original places of worship at\r\nPlymouth, Salem, or Boston, he will find Unitarians in possession. So\r\nit is in many of the oldest towns founded by the American colonists of\r\nthe seventeenth century. In their centres the parish churches, 'First,'\r\n'Second,' or otherwise, stand forth challenging everybody's attention.\r\nThere is no lack of self-assertion here, nothing at all like the\r\nshrinking of the Old English Presbyterian into obscure alleys and\r\ncorners. 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That Sanctuary domain\r\nwithin the soul the Quakers, ever since their origin in the period of\r\nthe English Commonwealth, have always guarded as the most sacred\r\npossession a man can have.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 16088 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Pringle, Cyrus G. (Cyrus Guernsey) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 18, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Pringle, Cyrus G. 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Their main subject is\r\nexpressly the English Church, and they write as English Churchmen,\r\ntaking, however, no narrower basis than that of the National Church\r\nitself.\nThey desire to be responsible each for his own opinions only, and\r\ntherefore the initials of the writer are attached to each chapter he has\r\nwritten.\n\nThe claim which the intellectual and religious life of England in the\r\neighteenth century has upon our interest has been much more generally\r\nacknowledged of late years than was the case heretofore. There had been,\r\nfor the most part, a disposition to pass it over somewhat slightly, as\r\nthough the whole period were a prosaic and uninteresting one. Every\r\ngeneration is apt to depreciate the age which has so long preceded it as\r\nto have no direct bearing on present modes of life, but is yet not\r\nsufficiently distant as to have emerged into the full dignity of\r\nhistory. 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I loved him with the sacred\r\nfire of holy kinship, and love him stillonly the more that lapse of\r\ntime has deepened by experience, inner and outer, the sense of truth\r\nand of purity he ever communicated to me in life, and courage and\r\nfidelity to conscience. I feel it to be honor enough and joy enough\r\nfor a life-time that I am his first biographer, though but a late\r\nborn child and of merit entirely insignificant. The literary work is,\r\nindeed, but of home-made quality, yet it serves to hold together what\r\nis the heaven-made wisdom of a great teacher of men. It will be found\r\nthat Father Hecker has three words in this book to my one, though all\r\nmy words I tried to make his. His journals, letters, and recorded\r\nsayings are the edifice into which I introduce the reader, and my\r\nwords are the hinges and latchets of its doors. 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The sins of all\nWere laid upon Him, when in agony\nHe bowed upon the cross. The temple's veil\nWas rent asunder, and the mighty rocks,\nTrembled, as the incarnate Deity,\nBy his atoning blood, opened that door,\nThrough which the soul, can have communion with\nIts great Creator; and when purified,\nFrom all defilements, find acceptance too,\nWhere it can finally partake of all\nThe joys of His salvation.\nBut the pure Church he planted,the pure Church\nWhich his apostles watered,and for which,\nThe blood of countless martyrs freely flowed,\nIn Roman Amphitheatres,on racks,\nAnd in the dungeon's gloom,this blessed Church,\nWhich grew in suffering, when it overspread\nSurrounding nations, lost its purity.\nIts truth was hidden, and its light obscured\nBy gross corruption, and idolatry.\nAs things of worship, it had images,\nAnd even painted canvas was adored.\nIt had a head and bishop, but this head\nWas not the Saviour, but the Pope of Rome.\nReligion was a traffic. Men defiled,\nProfessed to pardon sin, and even sell,\nThe joys of heaven for money,and to raise\nSouls out of darkness to eternal light,\nFor paltry silver lavished upon them.\nAnd thus thick darkness, overspread the Church\nAs with a mantle.\nAt length the midnight of apostacy\nPassed by, and in the horizon appeared,\nDay dawning upon Christendom. The light,\nGrew stronger, as the Reformation spread.\nFor Luther, and Melancthon, could not be\nSilenced by papal bulls, nor by decrees\nOf excommunication thundered forth\nOut of the Vatican. And yet the light,\nOf Luther's reformation, never reached\nBeyond the morning's dawn. The noontide blaze\nOf Truth's unclouded day, he never saw.\nYet after him, its rising sun displayed\nMore and more light upon the horizon.\nThough thus enlightened, the professing Church,\nWas far from many of the precious truths\nOf the Redeemer's gospel; and as yet,\nOwned not his Spirit's government therein.\nBut now the time approached, when he would pour\nA larger measure of his light below;\nAnd as he chose unlearned fishermen\nTo spread his gospel when first introduced,\nSo now he passed mere human learning by,\nAnd chose an instrument, comparable\nTo the small stone the youthful David used,\nTo smite the champion who defied the Lord.\nApart from human dwellings, in a green\nRich pasturage of England, sat a youth,\nWho seemed a shepherd, for around him there\nA flock was feeding, and the sportive lambs\nGambolled amid the herbage. But his face\nBore evidence of sadness. On his knee\nThe sacred book lay open, upon which\nThe youth looked long and earnestly, and then,\nClosing the book, gazed upward, in deep thought\nThis was the instrument by whom the Lord\nDesigned to spread a clearer light below\nAnd fuller reformation. He appeared,\nLike ancient Samuel, to be set apart\nFor the Lord's service from his very birth.\nEven in early childhood, he refrained\nFrom youthful follies, and his mind was turned\nTo things of highest moment. He was filled\nWith awful feelings, by the wickedness\nHe saw around him. As he grew in years,\nHorror of sin grew stronger; and his mind\nBecame so clothed with sadness, and so full\nOf soul-felt longings, for the healing streams\nOf heavenly consolation, that he left\nHis earthly kindred, seeking quietude\nIn solitary places, where he read\nThe book of inspiration, and in prayer,\nSought heavenly counsel.\nIn this deep-proving season he was told,\nOf priests, whose reputation had spread wide\nFor sanctity and wisdom; and from these\nHe sought for consolation,but in vain.\nOne of these ministers became enraged,\nBecause the youth had inadvertently\nMisstepped within his garden; and a priest\nOf greater reputation, counselled him\nTo use tobacco, and sing holy psalms!\nAnd the inquirer found a third to be\nBut as an empty, hollow cask at best.\nFinding no help in man, the youthful Fox,\nTurned to a higher and a holier source,\nFor light and knowledge. In his Saviour's school,\nHe sat a scholar, and was clearly shown\nThe deep corruption, that had overspread\nProfessing Christendom. And one by one,\nThe doctrines of the Gospel, were unveiled,\nTo the attentive student,doctrines, which,\nThough clearly written on the sacred page,\nHad long been hidden, by the rubbish man's\nPerversions and inventions heaped thereon.\nHe saw that colleges, could not confer,\nA saving knowledge of the way of Truth,\nNor qualify a minister to preach\nThe everlasting Gospel; but that Christ,\nIs the true Teacher, and that he alone\nHas power to call, anoint, and qualify,\nAnd send a Gospel minister to preach\nGlad tidings of salvation. He was shown,\nNo outward building, made of wood and stone\nCould be a holy place,and that the Church\nThe only true and living Churchmust be\nA holy people gathered to the Lord,\nAnd to his teaching. He was clearly taught,\nThe nature of baptism, by which souls\nAre purified and fitted for this Church;\nThat this was not, by being dipped into,\nOr sprinkled with clear water, but it was\nThe one baptism of the Holy Ghost.\nHe saw the Supper was no outward food,\nMade and administered by human hands,\nBut the Lord's Table was within the heart;\nWhere in communion with him, holy bread\nWas blessed and broken, and the heavenly wine,\nWhich cheers the fainting spirit, handed forth.\nThe Saviour showed him that all outward wars,\nAre now forbidden,that the warfare here,\nIs to be waged within. Its weapons too,\nThough mighty, even to the pulling down,\nOf the strong holds of Satan, are yet all\nThe Spirit's weapons. He was shown, that oaths\nJudicial or profane, are banished from\nThe Christian dispensation, which commands,\n\"Swear not at all.\" He saw the compliments,\nHat honour, and lip service of the world,\nSprang from pride's evil root, and were opposed\nTo the pure spirit of Christ's holy law.\nAnd by His inward Light, was clearly seen\nThe perfect purity of heart and life\nFor which that Saviour calls, who never asked,\nThings unattainable.\nThese truths and others, being thus revealed,\nFox was prepared and qualified to preach,\nThe unveiled Gospel, to the sons of men.\nClothed with divine authority, he went\nAbroad through Britain, and proclaimed that Light,\nWhich Christ's illuminating Spirit sheds,\nIn the dark heart of man. Some heard of this,\nWho seemed prepared and waiting, to receive\nHis Gospel message, and were turned to Him,\nWhose Holy Spirit sealed it on their hearts.\nAnd not a few of these, were called upon,\nTo take the message, and themselves declare\nThe way of Truth to others. But the Priests,\nCarnal professors, and some magistrates,\nHeard of the inward light, and purity,\nWith indignation, and they seized upon,\nAnd thrust the Preacher within prison walls.\nNot once alone, but often was he found,\nAmid the very dregs of wickedness\nWith robbers, and with blood-stained criminals,\nLocked up in loathsome jails. And when abroad\nUpon his Master's service, he was still\nReviled and buffeted, and spit upon.\nBut none of these things moved him, for within\nHe felt that soul-sustaining evidence,\nWhich bore his spirit high above the waves,\nOf bitter persecution.\nBut now the time approached, for his release\nFrom suffering and from labour. He had spent,\nLong years in travel for the cause of Truth,\nNot all in Britain,for he preached its light,\nAnd power in Holland,the West Indian isles,\nAnd North America. Far through the wild,\nAnd trackless wilderness, this faithful man,\nCarried his Master's message; he lived,\nTo see Truth's banner fearlessly displayed\nUpon both continents. He lived to see,\nPure hearted men and women gathered to\nThe inward teaching of the Saviour's will,\nBanded together in the covenant,\nOf light and life. But his allotted work,\nWas now accomplished, and his soul prepared,\nFor an inheritance with saints in light,\nAnd with his loins all girded, he put off\nHis earthly shackles, triumphing in death,\nThat the Seed reigned, and Truth was over all!\nWhere the dark waters of the Delaware,\nRoll onward to the ocean, sweeping by,\nPrimeval forests, where the red man still,\nBuilt his rude wigwam, and the timid deer\nFled for concealment from the Indian's eye,\nAnd the unerring arrow of his bow;\nThere, in the shadow of these ancient woods,\nA sea-worn ship has anchored. On her deck,\nMen of grave mien are gathered. One of whom,\nOf noble figure, and quick searching eyes,\nSurveys the scene, wrapt in the deepest thought.\nAnd this is William Penn. He stands among,\nFellow believers, who have sought a home,\nAnd place of refuge, in this wilderness.\nBorn of an ancient family, his sire\nAn English Admiral, the youthful Penn,\nMight, with his talents, have soon ranked among\nThe proudest subjects of the British throne.\nHe chose the better partto serve that King\nWho is immortal and invisible.\nWhile yet a student within college halls,\nHe heard Truth's message, and his heart was reached,\nAnd fully owned it, though it came through one\nOf that despised and persecuted class,\nCalled in derision Quakers. Thus convinced,\nHe left the college worship, to commune\nIn spirit with his Maker. And for this,\nHe was expelled from Oxford; and was soon\nMaltreated by his father, who, enraged,\nBecause his only son, had turned away\nFrom brilliant prospects, to pursue the path\nOf self-denial, drove him harshly forth\nFrom the paternal roof. But William Penn,\nHad still a Father, who supported him,\nWith strength and courage to perform his will;\nAnd he was called and qualified to preach,\nAnd to bear witness of that blessed Light\nWhich shines within. He suffered in the cause,\nHis share of trial. He was dragged before\nJudges and juries, and was shut within\nThe walls of prisons.\nLooking abroad through England, he was filled\nWith deep commiseration, for the jails\nThe loathsome, filthy jailswere crowded with\nHis brethren in the Truth. For their relief,\nHe sought the ear of royalty, and plead\nTheir cruel sufferings; and their innocence;\nAnd thus became the instrument through which\nSome prison doors were opened. But he sought\nA place of refuge from oppression's power,\nThat Friends might worship the Creator there,\nFree from imprisonment and penalties.\nAnd such a place soon opened to his view,\nFar in the Western Wilderness, beyond\nThe Atlantic's wave.\nAnd here is William Penn, and here a band\nOf weary emigrants, who now behold\nThe promised land before them; but it is\nThe Indian's country, and the Indian's home.\nPenn had indeed, received a royal grant,\nTo occupy it; but a grant from one\nWho had no rightful ownership therein;\nHe therefore buys it honestly from those\nWhose claims are aboriginal, and just.\nWith these inhabitants, behold, he stands\nBeneath an ancient elm, whose spreading limbs\nO'erhang the Delaware. The forest chiefs\nSit in grave silence, while the pipe of peace\nGoes round the circle. They have made a league\nWith faithful Onasa perpetual league,\nAnd treaty of true friendship, to endure\nWhile the sun shines, and while the waters run.\nAnd here was founded in the wilderness,\nA refuge from oppression, where all creeds\nFound toleration, and where truth and right\nWere the foundation of its government,\nAnd its protection. In that early day,\nThe infant colony sought no defence\nBut that of justice and of righteousness;\nThe only guarantees of peace on earth,\nBecause they ever breathe, good will to men.\nHis colony thus planted, William Penn\nSought his old field of labour, and again,\nBoth through the press and vocally, he plead\nThe right of conscience, and the rights of man;\nAnd frequently, and forcibly he preached\nChrist's universal and inshining Light.\nHis labour was incessant; and the cares,\nAnd the perplexities connected with\nHis distant province, which he visited\nA second time, bore heavily upon\nHis burdened spirit, which demanded rest;\nThat rest was granted. In the midst of all\nHis labour and his trials, there was drawn\nA veil, in mercy, round his active mind,\nWhich dimmed all outward things; but he still saw\nThe beauty and the loveliness of Truth,\nAnd found sweet access to the Source of good.\nAnd thus, shut out from the perplexities\nAnd sorrows of the world, he was prepared\nTo hear the final summons, to put off\nHis tattered garments, and be clothed upon\nWith heavenly raiment.\nScotland, thou hadst a noble citizen,\nIn him of Ury! Born amid thy hills,\nThough educated where enticing scenes,\nCrowd giddy Paris, he rejected all\nThe world's allurements, and unlike the youth\nWho talked with Jesus, Barclay turned away\nFrom great possessions, and embraced the Truth.\nHe early dedicated all the powers\nOf a well cultivated intellect\nTo the Redeemer and His holy cause.\nHe was a herald, to proclaim aloud,\nGlad tidings of salvation; and his life\nPreached a loud sermon by its purity.\nNot only were his lips made eloquent,\nBy the live coal that touched them, but his pen,\nMoved by a force from the same altar, poured\nLight, truth, and wisdom. From it issued forth\nThe great Apology, which yet remains\nOne of the best expositors of Truth\nThat man has published, since that sacred book\nAnciently written. Seekers are still led\nBy its direction, to that blessed Light,\nAnd inward Teacher, who is Jesus Christ.\nBut now, this noble servant of the Lord,\nRests from his faithful labour, while his works\nYet follow him.\nEarly believers in the light of Truth,\nDwelt not at ease in Zion. They endured\nConflicts and trials, and imprisonments.\nEven the humble Penington, whose mind\nSeemed purged and purified from all the dross\nOf human naturewho appeared as meek\nAnd harmless as an infantwas compelled\nTo dwell in loathsome prisons. But he had,\nThough in the midst of wickedness, sublime\nAnd holy visions of the purity,\nAnd the true nature of Christ's living Church.\nWhile Edmundson, the faithful pioneer\nOf Truth in Ireland, was compelled to drink\nDeeply of suffering for the blessed cause.\nDragged from his home, half naked, by a mob\nWho laid that home in ashes, he endured\nHeart-rending cruelties. But all of these,\nStars of the morning, felt oppression's hand,\nAnd some endured it to the closing scene.\nBurroughs, a noble servant of the Lord,\nWhose lips and pen were eloquent for Truth,\nDrew his last breath in prison. Parnel, too,\nA young and valiant soldier of the Lamb,\nDied, a true martyr in a dungeon's gloom.\nHowgill and Hubberthorn, both ministers\nOf Christ's ordaining, were released from all\nTheir earthly trials within prison walls.\nAnd beside these, there was a multitude\nOf faithful men, and noble women too,\nWho past from scenes of conflict, to the joys\nOf the Redeemer's kingdom, within jails,\nAnd some in dungeons. But amid it all,\nLight spread in Britain, and a living Church\nWas greatly multiplied. The tender minds,\nEven of children, felt the power of Truth,\nAnd showed the fruit and firmness it affords.\nWhen persecution, rioted within\nThe town of Bristol, and all older Friends\nWere locked in prison, little children met,\nWithin their place of worship, by themselves,\nTo offer praises, in the very place\nFrom which their parents had been dragged to jail.\nBut let us turn from Britain, and look down,\nUpon an inland sea whose swelling waves\nEncircle Malta. There a cloudless sun,\nIn Eastern beauty, pours its light upon\nThe Inquisition. All without its walls\nSeems calm and peaceful, let us look within.\nThere, stretched upon the floor, within a close,\nDark, narrow cell, inhaling from a crack\nA breath of purer air, two women lie.\nBut who are these, and wherefore are they here?\nThese are two ministers of Christ, who left\nTheir homes in England, faithfully to bear,\nThe Saviour's message into eastern lands.\nAnd here at Malta they were seized upon\nBy bigotted intolerance, and shut\nWithin this fearful engine of the Pope.\nPriests and Inquisitor assail them here,\nAnd urge the claims of popery. The rack,\nAnd cruel deaths are threatened; and again\nSweet liberty is offered, as the price\nOf their apostacy. All, all in vain!\nFor years these tender women have been thus,\nVictims of cruelty. At times apart,\nConfined in gloomy, solitary cells.\nBut all these efforts to convert them failed:\nThe Inquisition had not power enough\nTo shake their faith and confidence in Him,\nWhose holy presence was seen anciently\nTo save his children from devouring flames;\nHe, from this furnace of affliction, brought\nThese persecuted women, who came forth\nOut of the burning, with no smell of fire\nUpon their garments, and again they trod,\nTheir native land rejoicing.\nIn Hungary, two ministers of Christ,\nWere stretched upon the rack. Their tortured limbs\nWere almost torn asunder, but no force\nCould tear them from their Master, and they came\nOut of the furnace, well refined gold.\nNor were these all who suffered for the cause\nOf truth and righteousness, in foreign lands.\nFor at Mequinez and Algiers, some toiled,\nAnd died in slavery. But nothing could\nDiscourage faithful messengers of Christ\nFrom his required service. They were found\nPreaching repentance where the Israelites\nOnce toiled in Egypt, and the ancient Nile\nStill rolls its waters. And the holy light\nOf the eternal Gospel was proclaimed,\nWhere its great Author had first published it\nWhere the rich temple of King Solomon,\nStood in its ancient glory. Even there,\nThe haughty Musselmen, were told of Him,\nThe one great Prophet, who now speaks within.\nFor their refusing to participate\nIn carnal warfare, many early Friends,\nWere made to suffer. On a ship of war\nEquipped for battle, Richard Sellers bore,\nWith a meek, Christian spirit, cruelties\nThe most atrocious, for obeying Him\nWho was his heavenly Captain, and by whom,\nWar is forbidden. Sellers would not touch,\nThe instruments of carnage, nor could all\nThe cruelties inflicted, move his soul\nFrom a reliance on that holy Arm,\nWhich had sustained him in the midst of all\nHis complicated trials; and he gained\nA peaceful, but a greater victory\nThan that of battle, for he wearied out\nOppression, by his constancy, and left\nA holy savor, with that vessel's crew.\nBut let us turn from persecuting scenes,\nThat stain the annals of the older world,\nTo young America, whose virgin shores\nOffer a refuge from oppression's power.\nHere lies a harbour in the noble bay\nOf Massachusetts. Many little isles\nDot its expanding waters, and Nahant\nSpreads its long beach and eminence beyond,\nA barrier to the ocean. The whole scene,\nLooks beautiful, in the clear northern air,\nAnd loveliness of morning. On the heights\nThat overlook the harbour, there is seen\nAn infant settlement. Let us approach,\nAnd anchor where the Puritans have sought,\nFor liberty of conscience. But there seems,\nDisquietude in Boston. Men appear\nUrged on by stormy passions, and some wear\nA look of unrelenting bitterness.\nBut what is that now rising into view,\nWhere crowds are gathered on an eminence?\nThese are the Puritans. They now surround\nA common gallows. On its platform, stands\nA lovely woman in the simple garb\nWorn by the early Quakers. Of the throng,\nShe only seems unmoved, although her blood\nThey madly thirst for.\nThe first professors of Christ's inward Light,\nWho brought this message into Boston bay,\nWere inoffensive women. They were searched\nFor signs of witchcraft, and their books were burned.\nThe captain who had brought them, was compelled\nTo carry them away. But others came,\nBoth men and women, zealous for the Truth.\nThese were received with varied cruelties\nBy frequent whippings and imprisonments.\nLaw after law was made excluding them;\nBut all in vain, for still these faithful ones\nCarried their Master's message undismayed\nAmong the Puritans, and still they found\nThose who received it, and embraced the Truth,\nAnd steadily maintained it, in the midst\nOf whipping posts, and pillories, and jails!\nA law was then enacted, by which all\nThe banished Quakers, who were found again\nWithin the province, were to suffer death.\nBut these, though ever ready to obey\nAll just enactments, when laws trespassed on\nThe rights of conscience, and on God's command,\nCould never for a moment hesitate,\nWhich to obey.And soon there stood upon\nA scaffold of New England, faithful friends,\nWho, in obeying Christ, offended man!\nOf these was Mary Dyer, who exclaimed,\nWhile passing to this instrument of death,\n\"No eye can witness, and no ear can hear,\nNo tongue can utter, nor heart understand\nThe incomes and refreshings from the Lord\nWhich now I feel.\" And in the spirit which\nThese words a little pictured, Robinson,\nPast to the presence of that Holy One\nFor whom he laboured, and in whom he died.\nThen Stevenson, another faithful steward\nAnd servant of the Lamb, was ushered from\nDeep scenes of suffering into scenes of joy.\nBut Mary Dyer, who was all prepared,\nTo join these martyrs in their heavenward flight,\nWas left a little longer upon earth.\nBut a few fleeting months had rolled away,\nEre this devoted woman felt constrained,\nAgain to go among the Puritans,\nIn Massachusetts, and in Boston too.\nAnd here she stands! the second time, upon\nA gallows of New England. No reprieve\nArrests her sentence now. But still she feels\nThe same sweet incomes, and refreshing streams\nFrom the Lord's Holy Spirit. In the midst\nOf that excited multitude, she seems\nThe most resigned and peaceful.But the deed\nIs now accomplished, and the scene is closed!\nAmong the faithful martyrs of the Lamb,\nGathered forever round His Holy Throne,\nShe doubtless wears a pure and spotless robe,\nAnd bears the palm of victory.\nThe blood of Leddra was soon after shed,\nWhich closed the scene of martyrdom among\nThe early Quakers in this colony,\nBut not the scene of suffering. Women were\nDragged through its towns half-naked, tied to carts,\nWhile the lash fell upon their unclothed backs,\nAnd bloody streets, showed where they past along.\nAnd such inhuman treatment was bestowed\nOn the first female minister of Christ,\nWho preached the doctrine of his inward Light.\nBut in New England, there was really found\nA refuge from oppression, justice reigned\nUpon Rhode Island. In that early day,\nThe rights of conscience were held sacred there,\nAnd persecution was a thing unknown.\nA bright example, as a governor,\nWas William Coddington. He loved the law\nThe perfect law of righteousnessand strove\nTo govern by it; and all faithful Friends\nFelt him a brother in the blessed Truth.\nIn North America, the Puritans\nStood not alone in efforts to prevent\nThe introduction and the spread of light.\nThe Dutch plantation of New Amsterdam,\nSustained a measure of the evil work.\nThe savage cruelties inflicted on\nThe faithful Hodgson, have few parallels\nIn any age or country; but the Lord\nWas with His servant in the midst of all,\nAnd healed his tortured and his mangled frame.\nThe early Friends were bright and shining stars,\nFor they reflected the clear holy light\nThe Sun of Righteousness bestowed on them.\nThey followed no deceiving, transient glare\nNo ignis fatuus of bewildered minds;\nThey followed Jesus in the holiness\nOf His unchanging Gospel. They endured\nStripes and imprisonment and pillories,\nTorture and slavery and banishment,\nAnd even death; but they would not forsake\nTheir Holy Leader, or His blessed cause.\nTheir patient suffering, and firm steadfastness,\nSecured a rich inheritance for those\nWho have succeeded them. Do these now feel\nThat firm devotion to the cause of TruthThat\nsingleheartedness their fathers felt?\nDo they appreciate the price and worth\nOf the great legacy and precious trust\nHeld for their children? The great cruelties\nBorne by the fathers, have not been entailed\nOn their descendants, who now dwell at ease.\nThe world does not revile them. Do not some\nLove it the more for this? and do they not\nMake more alliance with it, and partake\nMore and more freely of its tempting baits,\nIts fashions and its spirit? but are these\nMore pure and holy than they were of old,\nWhen in the light of Truth, their fathers saw\nThat deep corruption overspread the world?\nOther professors latterly have learned\nTo speak of Quakers with less bitterness\nThan when the name reproachfully was cast\nIn ridicule upon them. Has not this\nDrawn watchmen from the citadel of Truth?\nHas it not opened doors that had been closed,\nAnd should have been forever? And by these,\nHas not an enemy been stealing in,\nTo spoil the goods of many; to assail,\nAnd strive in secrecy to gather strength,\nTo overcome the citadel at last?\nIs it not thought illiberal to refuse\nAlliances with those who now profess\nRespect and friendship? Must the Quaker then\nBow in the house of Rimmon, saying, Lord\nPardon in this thy servant? Do not some\nFail to resist encroachments, when they come\nClothed in enticing words, and wear the guise\nOf charity and kindness, and are veiled,\nOr sweetened to the taste, by courtesy?\nBut is a snare less certain, when concealed\nBy some enticing bait? or is a ball\nLess sure and fatal, when it flies unheard,\nOr, when the hand that sends it is unseen,\nOr offers friendship? Did not Joab say,\n\"Art thou in health my brother?\" and appeared\nTo kiss Amasa, while he thrust his sword\nInto his life-blood? And when Jonas fled\nFrom the Lord's service, and the stormy waves\nThreatened the ship that bore him, was the cause\nNot found within it? Was there not a calm\nWhen he, whose disobedience to the Lord\nHad raised the tempest, was no longer there?\nTruth has a standard openly displayed,\nUntornunsullied. Man indeed may change,\nAnd may forsake it; but the Standard still\nRemains immutable. May all who love\nThis Holy Banner, rally to it now!\nMay all whose dwellings are upon the sand,\nSeek for a building on that living Rock,\nWhich stands forever;for a storm has come\nA storm that tries foundations! Even now,\nThe flooding rains are falling, and the winds\nRapidly rising to a tempest, beat\nUpon all dwellings. They alone can stand\nWhich have the Rock beneath them, and above\nThe Omnipresent and Omnipotent\nCreator and Defender of His Church!\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 19482 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Anonymous \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 6, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher\u003c\/b\u003e: Joseph Kite \u0026amp; Co., Printers \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/b\u003e: 1846 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Anonymous \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217608343709,"sku":"gb-19482-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/19482.jpg?v=1671440762"},{"product_id":"fables-of-infidelity-and-facts-of-faith-gb-19566","title":"Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not so much a volume upon the Evidences of Christianity, as an\r\nexamination of the Evidences of Infidelity. When the Infidel tells us\r\nthat Christianity is false, and asks us to reject it, he is bound of\r\ncourse to provide us with something better and truer instead; under\r\npenalty of being considered a knave trying to swindle us out of our\r\nbirthright, and laughed at as a fool, for imagining that he could\r\npersuade mankind to live and die without religion. Suppose he had proved\r\nto the world's satisfaction that all religion is a hoax, and all men\r\nprofessing it are liars, how does that comfort me in my hour of sorrow?\r\nScoffing will not sustain a man in his solitude, when he has nobody to\r\nscoff at; and disbelief is only a bottomless tub, which will not float\r\nme across the dark river. If Infidels intend to convert the world, they\r\nmust give us some positive system of truth which we can believe, and\r\nvenerate, and trust.\nA glimmering idea of this necessity seems lately to have dawned upon\r\nsome of them. It is quite possible that they have also felt the want of\r\nsomething for their own souls to believe; for an Infidel has a soul, a\r\npoor, hungry, starved soul, just like other men. At any rate, having\r\ngrown tired of pelting the Church with the dirtballs of Voltaire and\r\nPaine, they begin to acknowledge that it is, after all, an institution;\r\nand that the Bible is an influential book, both popular and useful in\r\nits way. Mankind, it seems, will have a Church and a Bible of some sort;\r\nwhy not go to work and make a Church and a Bible of their own?\r\nAccordingly they have gone to work, and in a very short time have\r\nprepared a variety of ungodly religions, so various that the\r\nworldly-minded man who can not be suited with one to his taste must be\r\nvery hard to please. Discordant and contradictory in their positive\r\nstatements, they are agreed only in negatives; denying the God of the\r\nBible, the resurrection of the dead, and judgment to come. Nevertheless\r\neach discoverer or constructor presents his system to the world with\r\ngreat confidence, large claims to superior benevolence, vast pretensions\r\nto [Pg 2]learning and science, and no little cant about duty and piety.\r\nWonderful to tell, some of them are very fond of clothing their\r\nungodliness in the language of Scripture.\nNo pains are spared to secure the wide spread of these notions.\r\nProminent Infidels are invited to deliver courses of scientific\r\nlectures, in which the science is made the medium of conveying the\r\nInfidelity. Scientific books, novels, magazines, daily newspapers, and\r\ncommon school books, are all enlisted in the work. The disciples of\r\nInfidelity are numerous and zealous. It would be hard to find a factory,\r\nboarding-house, steamboat or hotel where twelve persons are employed,\r\nwithout an Infidel; and harder still to find an Infidel who will not use\r\nhis influence to poison his associates.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 19566 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Patterson, Robert \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 17, 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Patterson, Robert,1829-1885 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217624727709,"sku":"gb-19566-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/19566.jpg?v=1671441150"},{"product_id":"history-of-dogma-volume-1-gb-19612","title":"History of Dogma, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory of Dogma, Volume 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the six years that have passed since the appearance of\r\nthe second edition I have continued to work at the book, and\r\nhave made use of the new sources and investigations that have\r\nappeared during this period, as well as corrected and extended\r\nmy account in many passages. Yet I have not found it necessary\r\nto make many changes in the second half of the\r\nwork. The increase of about sixty pages is almost entirely in\r\nthe first half.\nBerlin, 31st December, 1893\nINTRODUCTORY DIVISION.\nCHAPTER I.PROLEGOMENA TO THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF DOGMA\n 1. The Idea and Task of the History of Dogma\nDefinition\nLimits and Divisions\nDogma and Theology\nFactors in the formation of Dogma\nExplanation as to the conception and\r\ntask of the History of Dogma\n 2. 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Whose\nend is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who\nmind earthly things,and as to Christ thy Lord, most comely as the lily among\nthorns, being his love among the daughters, Cant. ii. 2. so also, thou, in a\nspecial way, art the dearly beloved and longed for, the joy and crown, of every sincere\nservant of Christ in the gospel, Phil. iv. 1. Thou art, if not the only, yet the chief\nobject of their labours, their work being either to confirm and strengthen thee in\nthy way, that thou mayest so stand fast in the Lord, or remove impediments, make\ncrooked things straight, and so prepare the way of the Lord before thee, or to guide\nthee by the light of God's word in the dark night of temptation and desertion. Now, as\nwe are confident these sermons were preached at first by that blessed, serious labourer\nin the work of the ministry, Mr. Hugh Binning, with a special eye to the advancement\nof sincere seekers after fellowship with God, and seriously heaven-ward-tending\nChristians amongst his hearers, so to whom shall we direct this posthumous,\nand alas! unperfected work, but to thee, (O serious Christian,) who makest it thy\nwork not only to seek after the knowledge of God in Christ, in a mere speculative\nway, that thou mayest know, and therein rest, as if thy work were done, but also to\nfollow after the enjoyment of that known God, and believed on Saviour, and all\nthe promised privileges of grace in this life, and of eternal glory in the life to come.\nTo thee especially belong these precious soul-ravishing truths delivered in these\nsermons. Two things, we know, thou hast determined thy soul unto, and fixed thine\neye on, as thine aim and mark in thy generation, viz. the light of knowledge and\nthe life of practice. As to knowledge, we are confident that with the apostle Paul,\n1 Cor. ii. 2. thou hast determined to know nothing but Christ, and him crucified;\nand as to practice, with the said apostle thou prayest, that thou mayest be sincere\nand without offence till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of\nrighteousness, which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory of God, Phil. i. 10, 11; and\nthat thou mayest be blameless and harmless, the son of God without rebuke in the\nmidst of a crooked and perverse nation, shining as a light in the world, Phil. ii. 15.\nNow in reading these sermons thou shalt perceive, that to help thee in both these,\nhath been the very scope and design of this serious preacher. Desirest thou to\nknow Jesus Christ the Lord of life, either according to his eternal subsistence in the\ninfinite understanding of the Father, as God, or as to his appearance in the flesh, as\nMan, or fitness as Mediator, to reconcile thee to God his Father, both in respect of\nwillingness and ability to save? Then here thou shalt behold him delineate to the\n[pg 270]\nlife. Wouldst thou be clearly informed anent220 the only true and sure foundation of\nfellowship with God, the way of entertaining it, the honour or happiness of it, and\nsweet fruits of it, that fulness of joy that accompanies it? Here shalt thou find\nso clear a light as shall rejoice thy soul. Wouldst thou be fortified against the\nincursions and recursions of sin and Satan? Then come to this magazine, and be furnished\nabundantly. Desirest thou to have thy soul increased in the love of God,\nand to see manifest demonstrations of his love in Christ to thee? Oh! then turn\nin hither, and get satisfaction to thy soul's desires. If thou desirest with David, to\nhate sin with a perfect hatred, here, if any where, thou shalt obtain thy desire.\nYet let none think that we limit the benefit and usefulness of these sermons to serious\nChristians only, and so by consequence exclude all others from any hope of soul-advantage\nin reading them. Nay, we declare, that though it be undeniable, that\nJohn did write this epistle with a special respect to the spiritual advantage of serious\nChristians, and that this holy preacher also had this same design, yet we dare be\nbold to invite all of what degree soever, to the serious perusing of them, assuring\nthem that in so doing they shall not find their labour in vain in the Lord, for here\nare such pregnant demonstrations of a Deity, infinite, eternal, omnipotent,\nincomprehensible, governing all things by the word of his power, as may dash the boldness\nof the most metaphysical, notional, or profanely practical atheist, and with conviction\nof spirit make him cry out, as in Psal. lxxiii. 22. So foolish was I and ignorant,\nI was as a beast before thee! Here are such clear discoveries of the vileness of sin,\nof its direct opposition to a holy God, and his most holy will, of its woful soul-damning\neffects, as may convince the most profane and stout-hearted carnalist, and awake\nhim out of his soul-destroying sleep of security and presumption. Here are so glorious\nevidences of God's free and inconceivable love to the world, in Christ Jesus the\nSon of his love, as are able to enlighten with the light of consolation, the sadliest\ndejected and casten down soul, under the apprehension of the curse and wrath of\nGod due to it for sin, and raise it up to the hope of mercy in and through so clearly\na revealed Saviour. In a word, here are to be found convictions for atheists, piercing\nrebukes to the profane, clear instructions to the ignorant, milk to babes in Christ,\nstrong meat for the strong, strength to the weak, quickening and reviving for such\nas faint in the way, restoratives for such as are in a decay, reclamations and loud\noyeses221\nafter backsliders to reveal them, breasts of consolations for Zion's mourners,\nwhether under the first convictions of the law, and pangs of the new birth, or under\nthe challenges and compunctions of heart for recidivations and relapses after conversion,\neven while they are groaning under the power and burden of the body of death,\nRom. vii. And to add no more, here are most excellent counsels and directions to\nserious seekers of fellowship with God, to guide them in their way, and help them\nforward to the attainment of that fulness of a joy which is to be had in fellowship\nwith the Father and the Son. That the Lord may bless all such to whose hands\nthese sermons shall come, with blessings suitable to their soul's condition, especially\nthe serious Christian, for whose soul's furtherance and advancement these sermons\nwere first penned, and now printed, is the most affectionate desire of,\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 24238 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Binning, Hugh \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 10, 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Binning, Hugh,1627-1653 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43218213077149,"sku":"gb-24238-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/24238.jpg?v=1671471288"},{"product_id":"american-lutheranism-volume-2-gb-24304","title":"American Lutheranism, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Lutheranism, Volume 2\r - The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs appears from this second volume, our chief object is to record the\r\nfacts as to the theological attitude of the various Lutheran bodies in\r\nAmerica, with such comment only as we deemed necessary.\nTHE UNITED LUTHYERAN CHURCH..1-11\r\n\r\nMerger..1\r\n\r\nConstitution..5\r\n\r\nCharacter..9\r\n\r\nTHE GENERAL SYNOD.12-175\r\n\r\nOrganization.12\r\n\r\nCharacter.19\r\n\r\nConstitution.22\r\n\r\nEvaluation25\r\n\r\nDoctrinal Basis.32\r\n\r\nBasis Interpreted..40\r\n\r\nUnionism..48\r\n\r\nUnion Letter of 1845..58\r\n\r\nChristian Union.63\r\n\r\nTheology Reformed..68\r\n\r\nRevivalism76\r\n\r\n\"American Lutheranism\"89\r\n\r\nDefinite Platform Controversy.101\r\n\r\nPosition of District Synods toward Platform..111\r\n\r\nGeneral Synod's Attitude toward Platform..117\r\n\r\nYork Convention123\r\n\r\nSecessions and Separations.130\r\n\r\nInfluential Theologians.136\r\n\r\nMissouri's Influence.153\r\n\r\nExplanatory Statements of Doctrinal Basis.158\r\n\r\nRestatement of Basis.161\r\n\r\nActual Conditions.166\r\n\r\nUn-Lutheran Practise.170\r\n\r\nTHE GENERAL COUNCIL.176-227\r\n\r\nSynods Composing the Council..176\r\n\r\nCharles Porterfield Krauth.181\r\n\r\nOther Representative Theologians.187\r\n\r\nConstitution190\r\n\r\nSubtile Unionism..195\r\n\r\nThe Four Points198\r\n\r\nAkron-Galesburg Rule.202\r\n\r\nInterdenominational Fellowship204\r\n\r\nAttitude toward Lodges..207\r\n\r\nChiliasm.210\r\n\r\nOther Aberrations.212\r\n\r\nRomanism.214\r\n\r\nSynergism217\r\n\r\nLiberalistic Trends..220\r\n\r\nEquivocal Doctrinal Attitude..224\r\n\r\nTHE UNITED SYNOD SOUTH.228-243\r\n\r\nOrganization228\r\n\r\nDoctrinal Basis229\r\n\r\nIndifferentism.232\r\n\r\nUn-Lutheran Practise.234\r\n\r\nTennessee and Holston Synods..236\r\n\r\nCommon Service.241\n\n1. 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In 1919 it was decided to consolidate the\r\n Lutheran, the Lutheran Church Work and Observer, and the Lutheran\r\nChurch Visitor. The new church-paper will be The Lutheran, with Dr.\r\nG. W. Sandt as editor-in-chief.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 24304 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Bente, F. (Friedrich) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 15, 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bente, F. 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He said: \"Why not write the reminiscences of your Indian life?\" The\r\ncounsel struck me as good, and I have acted on it.\nMy theme has not the advantage of novelty: I cannot tell of a new\r\ncountry explored, and a new people brought within the knowledge of the\r\nworld; but it has the advantage of greatness and variety. I am not aware\r\nthat any book on Indian Missions has achieved signal success. I do not\r\nthink, however, a single one has been written in vain. That must have\r\nbeen a singularly poor book on so great a subject which has not had\r\nsomething in it fitted to interest and inform readers. That must have\r\nbeen a very solitary, lonely missionary, who has had no friends ready to\r\nlisten to what he has had to say. These books may have received little\r\ngeneral attention; but here and there, as the result of their perusal,\r\nthere has been a more intelligent apprehension of our work, deeper\r\nsympathy with us, and heartier support rendered to us. I have ventured\r\nto add a volume to those already pub[Pg viii]lished in the hope that it may do\r\nsome good before it passes into the oblivion which necessarily awaits\r\nmost of the productions of the press.\nA glance at the contents of this volume will show it takes up a number\r\nof subjects, some of which are merely touched in most books on Missions,\r\nand others not at all. Reminiscences, especially when they spread over\r\nmany years, and embrace great events, admit of very discursive\r\ntreatment. They leave the writer unfettered to take up any subject\r\nwithin his wide scope which he may deem fitted to interest his readers.\r\nI have allowed myself the freedom thus afforded me. My aim has been to\r\ntake my readers with me to our Indian home, to see us at our work, to\r\nhear us conversing with the people, to accompany us on our journeys, to\r\nsurround them in thought with our surroundings, so that they may realize\r\nour position, trials, difficulties, and joys. 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When pardons for sins were\r\npublicly sold during a jubilee in 1393, the devout young student gave up\r\nhis last four pennies to secure this heavenly favor from the Pope.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 26129 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Dallmann, William \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 25, 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Dallmann, William,1862-1952 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43218771574941,"sku":"gb-26129-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/26129.jpg?v=1671504836"},{"product_id":"the-inquisition-gb-26329","title":"The Inquisition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Inquisition - A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the print edition of this book, footnote numbers began with 1 on\r\neach page, and the footnotes appeared at the bottom of each page. 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The grumbling and\nunwillingness which appeareth in very many, when\nthey should submit to that reformation of the\nchurch which is according to the mind of Jesus\nChrist, like them that said to the seers, See not;\nand to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right\nthings, speak unto us smooth things, Isa. xxx, 10;\nand again, Let us break their bands asunder,\nand cast away their cords from us, Psal. ii. 3. 3.\nThe sad and desolate condition of the kingdom of\nScotland, then calling for our prayers and tears,\nand saying, Call me not Naomi (pleasant), call me\nMara (bitter): for the Almighty hath dealt very\nbitterly with me, Ruth i. 20. We were pressed\nout of measure, above strength, and had the sentence\nof death in ourselves, that we should not trust\nin ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead; who\ndelivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver;\nin whom we trust that he will yet deliver us, 2 Cor.\n[pg 7-iii]\ni. 8-10. Our brethren also helping together by\nprayer for us, that for the mercy bestowed on us\nby means of the prayers of many, thanks may be\ngiven by many on our behalf. The Lord liveth,\nand blessed be my Rock: and let the God of my salvation\nbe exalted, Psal. xviii, 46; He is our God;\nand we will prepare for him an habitation; our father's\nGod, and we will exalt him, Exod. xv. 2;\nBlessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who\nonly doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious\nname for ever: and let the whole earth be filled\nwith his glory, Psal. lxxii. 18, 19. Scotland\nshall yet be a crown of glory in the hand of the\nLord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God,\nIsa. lxii. 3; and shall be called Hephzi-bah and Beulah.\nOnly let us remember our evil ways, and be\nconfounded, and never open our mouth any more\nbecause of our shame, when the Lord our God is\npacified towards us. Now are both kingdoms put to\na trial, whether their humiliations be filial, and whether\nthen can mourn for sin more than for judgment.\nAnd let us now hear what the Spirit speaketh\nto the churches, and not turn again to folly\nNew provocations, or the old unrepented, will create\nnew ones; therefore sin no more, lest a worse\nthing come unto us.\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 26849 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Gillespie, George \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 8, 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Gillespie, George,1613-1648 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43218826952861,"sku":"gb-26849-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/26849.jpg?v=1671507426"},{"product_id":"biographia-scoticana-scots-worthies-gb-28272","title":"Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBiographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) - A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI presume, that any person, who has diligently perused the history of\r\nthe lives of our noble Scots worthies, will by this time be able to form\r\nsome idea in their own minds of the religious, virtuous and faithful\r\nlives, joyful and comfortable deaths of a certain number of Christ's\r\nnoble witnesses, confessors and martyrs, who through much tribulation\r\nemerged forth of all their difficulties in much faith and patience, and\r\nare now inheriting the promise in that land and celestial Jerusalem\r\nabove, where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary be at\r\nrest.\nIt now follows of course, that I should present another scene unto the\r\nreader's view, viz. a short index or memorial of the wicked, apostate,\r\nperfidious and flagitious lives, and miserable and lamentable deaths of\r\nsome of the most particular persons that opposed and oppressed the\r\nchurch of Christ, and mal-treated and persecuted them. 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No; I might instance Cain, the\r\nproto-persecutor and murderer; Pharaoh, who was drowned in the Red sea;\r\nCorah and others, who were swallowed up quick and burnt before the Lord;\r\nSaul, who finished his own regicide; wicked Joram, whose bowels fell\r\nout; apostate Joash and Jehoiakim, who burnt the roll, came to\r\nignominious ends: Ahab and Zedekiah, false prophets, whom the king of\r\nBabylon roasted in the fire; Haman, who was hanged: Antiochus Epiphanes,\r\nwho was eaten of vermin, and rotted while alive; Melenaus the apostate,\r\nwho was smothered to death in ashes; Herod, who killed the children of\r\nBethlehem, and had the same fate with Antiochus; Herod Antipas, who\r\nkilled John Baptist; Herodias and Salmon the dancer came to(iv) fearful\r\nends: Judas and Caiaphas became their own executioners; Pilate also\r\nended his own wretched life; Herod Agrippa was eaten up of worms: Nero\r\nand all the succeeding emperors, authors of the ten persecutions; Philip\r\nII. of Spain, Charles IX. 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Nor,\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 28272 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Howie, John \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Mar 7, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Howie, John,1735-1793 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219027591325,"sku":"gb-28272-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/28272.jpg?v=1671512511"},{"product_id":"the-acts-of-uniformity-their-scope-and-effect-gb-28659","title":"The Acts of Uniformity: Their Scope and Effect","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Acts of Uniformity: Their Scope and Effect\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Acts of Uniformity are incidents in a great\r\nmovement. They are far from being the most important\r\nof its incidents. Their importance has perhaps\r\nbeen exaggerated, and their purport is commonly\r\nmisunderstood. My object is to place them in their\r\ntrue relation to other incidents. It is useless to study\r\nthem apart; they cannot be understood except as\r\ndetails of a connected history. I shall confine myself,\r\nhowever, to a narrow, question: assuming the general\r\nhistory, I shall ask how the several Acts of Uniformity\r\ncome into it, with what purpose and with what ultimate\r\neffect. To study immediate effects would be to\r\nengage in too wide an inquiry.\nWe owe thanks to the men who drafted the\r\nstatutes of the sixteenth century for their long argumentative\r\npreambles. These are invaluable as showing\r\nthe occasion and purpose of the Acts. 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In no preceding age\nwere the annals of the Church so grandly illustrated.\n\n\nThe spiritual sovereignty, with which, to use the words\nof a British statesman, there is nothing on this earth that\ncan at all compare, was crowned with surpassing glory.\nDoctrines which, hitherto, had been open to theological discussion,\nwere ascertained and pronounced to be in accordance\nwith the belief of all preceding Christian ages. The Church\nwas enabled, through the labors of her Chief and the zeal of\nher Priesthood, to extend vastly the place of her tent. The\nlife of Pius IX. himself was a marvel and a glory. None of\nhis predecessors, not even Peter, attained to his length of days.\n\n\nOn the other hand, the venerable Pontiff, and, together with\nhim, the Catholic people, were doomed to behold and lament\nthe loss of the time-honored patrimony of St. Peter. The\nPapacy, however, unlike all temporal sovereignties, was able\nto sustain so great a loss. 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Many earnest\r\nminds are approaching the study of the subject from various\r\nstandpoints, each worthy of attentive consideration.  One regards it\r\nfrom the dogmatic position of scriptural precedent, or from the larger\r\none of Christian principle; the aesthetic mind comes to it with visions\r\nof order and beauty; the practical, with his view of the Church's needs\r\nin mission fields and in mixed congregations.  There is room in the\r\ndiscussion for the largest statement of lawful opinion, founded on\r\nconviction of absolute right, and on Christian expediency, and for the\r\nexercise of abundant charity.\r\n\n\r\nDr. Johnston gives no uncertain sound on the subject.  To his mind the\r\nduty of the Church, first and last, is to preserve spirituality of\r\nworship, and to discountenance everything that may tend to interfere\r\nwith the same.  But, while this spirit pervades his work, his method is\r\nhistorical, and thus preeminently fair and impartial in statement. The\r\npresentation of the argument in concrete or historical form invests it\r\nwith an interest which could hardly be commanded by either dogmatic or\r\npractical methods, while it excludes neither.\r\n\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 30675 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Johnston, Robert \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 14, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Johnston, Robert \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219479888029,"sku":"gb-30675-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/30675.jpg?v=1671527400"}],"url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/collections\/religion-christianity-history.oembed?page=2","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}