The old and new theology, 2 lectures; and The Church of Christ not an ecclesiasticism, a letter |
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第 xv 頁 - Take away all hatred and prejudice, and whatsoever else may hinder us from godly Union and Concord: that, as there is but one Body, and one Spirit, and one Hope of our Calling, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father of us all, so we may henceforth be all of one heart, and of one soul, united in one holy bond of Truth and Peace, of Faith and Charity, and may with one mind and one mouth glorify thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
第 72 頁 - Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world; that they which see not might see, and that they which see might be made blind.
第 xv 頁 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
第 vi 頁 - Mayst seem to have reached a purer air, Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form, Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views ; Nor thou with shadowed hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. Her faith thro...
第 122 頁 - Christians would leave to every one to receive according to his conscience, whilst it would be the language of. their hearts, that he is a true Christian who lives as a Christian, that is, as the Lord teaches. Thus one church would be formed out of all these diverse ones, and all disagreements arising from mere doctrinals would vanish, yea, all the animosities of one against another would be dissipated in a moment, and the kingdom of the Lord would be established on earth.
第 xiii 頁 - ... they are utterly devoid within of that divine life which Christ came to kindle in men's souls ; and, therefore, are so apt to spend all their zeal upon a violent obtruding of their own opinions and apprehensions upon others, which cannot give entertainment to them; which, besides its repugnancy to the doctrine and example of Christ himself, is like to be the bellows that will blow a perpetual fire of discord and contention in...
第 ii 頁 - Wouldst thou the life of souls discern? Nor human wisdom nor divine Helps thee by aught beside to learn ; Love is life's only sign.
第 ii 頁 - Church, to require of many men a unanimity in speculative doctrine, which is unattainable, and a uniformity of historical belief, which 'can never exist. The true Christian life is the consciousness of bearing a part in a great moral order, of which the highest agency upon earth has been committed to the Church. Let us not oppress this work, nor complicate the difficulties with which it is surrounded: " not making the heart of the righteous sad, whom the Lord hath not made sad; nor strengthening...
第 ii 頁 - Jesus Christ has not revealed his religion as a theology of the intellect, nor as an historical faith; and it is a stifling of the true Christian life, both in the individual and in the Church, to require of many men a unanimity in speculative doctrine, which is unattainable, and a uniformity of historical belief, which 'can never exist.
第 xiv 頁 - Divine truth is better understood as it unfolds itself in the purity of men's hearts and lives, than in all those subtle niceties into which curious wits may lay it forth.