The Collected Works of Theodore Parker; A discourse of matter pertaining to religion Volume 1 - Softcover
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. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...in Minos or Moses, in Gentiles or Jews, in the first century or the last. If God be infinitely perfect, He 1 See Jonathan Edwards' view of Inspiration, in his sermon on A divine Light imparted to the Soul, &c. Works, ed. Lond. 1840. Vol. II. p. 12, et seq., and Vol. I. p. cclxix. No. 20, 2 So long as inspiration is regarded as purely miraculous, good sense will lessen instances of it, as far as possible; for most thinking men feel more or less repugnance at believing in any violation, on God's part, of regular laws. As spiritual things are commonly less attended to than material, the belief in miraculous inspiration remains longer in religious than secular affairs. A man would be looked on as mad, who should claim miraculous inspiration for Newton, as they have been who denied it in the case of Moses. But no candid man will doubt that, humanly speaking, it was a more difficult thing to write the Principia than the Decalogue. Man must have a nature most «adly anomalous, if, unassisted, he is able to accomplish all the triumphs of modern science, and yet cannot discover the plainest and most important principles of Religion and Morality without a miraculous revelation; and still more so, if being able to discover, by God's natural aid, these chief and most important principles, he needs a miraculous inspiration to disclose minor details. Science is by no means indispensable, as Religion and Morals. The doctrine of the immortality of th« soul, if it is a real advantage, follows unavoidably from the Idea of God. Th« Sett Being, he must will the best of good things; the Wisest, he must devisa plans for that effect; the most Powerful, he must bring it about. None can deny this. Does one ask another " proof of the fact?" Is he so very...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217755364
- ISBN 13 9780217755368
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages140
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