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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1839. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ESSAY ON RATIONALISM, AS SHOWN IN THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURES CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. THE UNIVERSALITY OF RATIONALISM. No one who has made a study of his own heart can be altogether ignorant of the temptation he lies under to attach undue weight to human experience in the interpretation of Scripture, nor altogether free from apprehension lest he should in some points have unconsciously yielded to it. Yet few perhaps are fully aware of the extent to which this temptation influences them, and of the various and subtle disguises under which it presents itself. In the Protestant part of Christendom especially, it seems at the present day to exercise a sway almost universal; though the effects it produces on different minds are very dissimilar, and in some points of view even directly opposite. 1 [Written, as it would appear, at Barbadoes, in 1834.] VOL. I. B Considered as effects of this temptation, the opinions of Protestants seem, generally speaking, to admit of being grouped into two classes, of which the respective partisans would doubtless be surprised at being supposed to have any thing in common. On the one hand we see a very strong and general disposition to divest Scripture of its apparent meaning, when such as our natural faculties cannot apprehend and verify; and on the other to invest man with supernatural faculties for the purpose of verifying it: thus, in both cases, Revelation and Experience are brought into accordance, though by processes the direct reverse of one another, and by persons for the most part diametrically opposed in all their habits of thought and feeling. This twofold genius of Rationalism1 is no where more strikingly exemplified than in the interpretations put by opposite classes of religionists on the evangelical promises of th...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1154360512
- ISBN 13 9781154360516
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages98
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