The Political Duties of the Ministers of Religion in Times of Great National ExcitementJ. Hatchard and Son, 1831 - 41 páginas |
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ance assembly authority become body called to exercise cast cautions Christ Christian Church class of politicians Clergy considered constitution constitutionally corruption defence department of morals details of politics directly professional discharge dispute enemy ephemeral politics error especially evil feeling foundation free offer functions genuine religion give GOUGH SQUARE hand and heart hath hearers Hindoo honest honour House of Parliament human nature impossible insist instances kamkam labourers large numbers lators legis leisure ligion ment merely mind minister of religion moral principle MORNING THOUGHTS multitude NATIONAL EXCITEMENT never nister object observations obvious opinion opposite parish Parliament particular party peace perhaps ples political parties positive duty preaching present profession questions reason refer Reform reserve or qualification rulers sacred sanctuary says Scriptures scru seldom society solemn spirit of genuine statesmen surely take care lest things tion topics Tories true policy depends truth welfare worst zeal
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Página 7 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power : both Angels and Men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all, with uniform consent, admiring her as the Mother of their peace and joy.
Página 23 - And here I cannot but record the effect of an actual though undesigned experiment, which I prosecuted for upwards of twelve years among you. For the greater part of that time, I could expatiate on the meanness of dishonesty, on the...
Página 24 - I was inattentive to the way in which this enmity is dissolved, even by the free offer on the one hand, and the believing acceptance on the other, of the Gospel salvation ; while Christ, through whose blood the sinner, who by nature stands afar off, is brought near to the heavenly Lawgiver whom he has offended, was scarcely ever spoken of, or spoken of in such a way as stripped him of all the importance of...
Página 23 - ... of falsehood, on the despicable arts of calumny, — in a word, upon all those deformities of character, which awaken the natural indignation of the human heart against the pests and the disturbers of human society. Now could I, upon the strength of these warm expostulations, have got the thief to give up his stealing, and the evil...
Página 24 - Him became the distinct and the prominent object of my ministerial exertions; it was not till I took the Scriptural way of laying the method of reconciliation before them; it was not till the free offer of forgiveness through the blood of Christ was urged upon their acceptance, and the Holy Spirit given through the channel of Christ's mediatorship to all who ask Him, was set before them as the unceasing object of their dependence and their prayers...
Página 24 - But the interesting fact is, that during the whole of that period in which I made no attempt against the natural enmity of the mind to God, while I was inattentive to the way in which this enmity is dissolved, even by the free offer on the one hand, and the believing acceptance on the other, of the gospel salvation...
Página 31 - There are times when the moral world seems to stand still ; there are others when it seems impelled towards its goal with an accelerated force. The present is a period more interesting perhaps than any which has been known in the whole flight of time. The scenes of Providence thicken upon us so fast, and are shifted with so strange a rapidity, as if the great drama of the world were drawing to a close...
Página 34 - Malice, treat every new Attempt as wild and chimerical, and look upon every Endeavour to depart from the beaten Track, as the...
Página 31 - ... far from being spent. Europe never presented such a spectacle before, and it is worthy of being contemplated, with the profoundest attention, by all its inhabitants. The empire of darkness and of despotism has been smitten with a stroke which has sounded through the universe. When we see whole kingdoms, after reposing for centuries...
Página 23 - I prosecuted for upwards of twelve years among you. For the greater part of that time, I could expatiate on the meanness of dishonesty, on the villany of falsehood, on the despicable arts of calumny, — in a word, upon all those deformities of character, which awaken the natural indignation of the human heart against the pests and the disturbers of human society.