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James Walker:The theology and theologians of Scotland, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesed. by N.L. Walker and W.G. Blaikie.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... who made any gross public exhibition of his contempt for God''s precept; but he certainly was not thought of as an observer of that precept. And, for my part, I do not comprehend how any person with religious feelings and sympathies should not be ready to admit that at least there is something very grand about the Scottish Sabbath, in its idea of a day of communion with the Unseen and Eternal; of adoration of our Maker and our Saviour; of selfexamination and moral exercise; of acquisition of religious knowledge;--and all this in order to the spiritual elevation of the soul, the replenishing of our moral energies, and a closer hold of the verities which have a place in our creed. Of course, Scotch religion has had its formalism; and that formalism very naturally connects itself with the Sabbath. The Sabbath is the thing among us in which the pharisaic tendency and conscience find readiest exercise. It is our chief opportunity for religious display. And no doubt we have had our share of the miserable thing. Nor do I hold myself obliged to defend all the minutiae of Sabbatic observance which you may find in presbytery records, or of which people may have heard stray reports. In breaking in a turbulent, and energetic, and uneducated people, a certain devotional rigour was, I believe, both necessary and advantageous. But is there more of sham and unreality in the North than the South of our Island? Under any of the ordinary tests which you apply in such cases, can it be said that Scottish religion, when it has been a day of power with it, has been deficient comparatively in vital moral force? At the same time we admit that Scotch religion has been distinguished by a certain Sabbatic stringency. We have regarded the outward observance of the... James Walker, Books, History, The theology and theologians of Scotland, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesed. by N.L. Walker and W.G. Blaikie. Books>History, General Books LLC<
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MONSTER
James Walker:The theology and theologians of Scotland, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesed. by N.L. Walker and W.G. Blaikie.
- nieuw boek ISBN: 9781150854569
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Meer...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... who made any gross public exhibition of his contempt for God''s precept; but he certainly was not thought of as an observer of that precept. And, for my part, I do not comprehend how any person with religious feelings and sympathies should not be ready to admit that at least there is something very grand about the Scottish Sabbath, in its idea of a day of communion with the Unseen and Eternal; of adoration of our Maker and our Saviour; of selfexamination and moral exercise; of acquisition of religious knowledge;--and all this in order to the spiritual elevation of the soul, the replenishing of our moral energies, and a closer hold of the verities which have a place in our creed. Of course, Scotch religion has had its formalism; and that formalism very naturally connects itself with the Sabbath. The Sabbath is the thing among us in which the pharisaic tendency and conscience find readiest exercise. It is our chief opportunity for religious display. And no doubt we have had our share of the miserable thing. Nor do I hold myself obliged to defend all the minutiae of Sabbatic observance which you may find in presbytery records, or of which people may have heard stray reports. In breaking in a turbulent, and energetic, and uneducated people, a certain devotional rigour was, I believe, both necessary and advantageous. But is there more of sham and unreality in the North than the South of our Island? Under any of the ordinary tests which you apply in such cases, can it be said that Scottish religion, when it has been a day of power with it, has been deficient comparatively in vital moral force? At the same time we admit that Scotch religion has been distinguished by a certain Sabbatic stringency. We have regarded the outward observance of the... James Walker, Books, History, The theology and theologians of Scotland, chiefly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesed. by N.L. Walker and W.G. Blaikie. Books>History <
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