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Bishop of London's Three Pastoral Letters
Bishop of London's Three Pastoral Letters Author:Edmund Gibson Subtitle: To the People of His Diocese; Particularly to Those of the Two Great Cities of London and Westminster, in Defence of the Gospel-Revelation, and by Way of Preservative Against the Late Writings in Favour of Infidelity General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1732 Original Publisher: Printed by S. Buckley Subje... more »cts: Bible Faith and reason Revelation Reason Visitation sermons Faith Apologetics Philosophy / Movements / Rationalism Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics Religion / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources Religion / Faith Religion / Theology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: It may not be improper, before I Ihut Up this Head, to obferve that feveral of our moft eminentx Divines after theRefto- ration, fet themfelves both by Preaching and Writing to enlarge upon the Importance of Moral Duties, and to recommend them with great Earneftnefs to the Regard of the People ; to fuch a degree, as to ftand charged by others with too great a Difregard of the Doctrines and Duties peculiar to Chriftianity. Whereas, the Cafe in reality was this. During the Times of Confufion, many of the Preachers had not only forborn to inculcate the Duties of Morality, but had labour'd to depreciate them ; to perfuade the People that Faith was All, and Works Nothing. And therefore the Clergy after the Reftoration, in order to take off thofe unhappy Imprefiions, found themfelves obliged to inculcate with more than ordinary Diligence, the Necefiity of moral Duties in the Chriftian Life, and to labour to reftore them to their proper Share in the Chriftian Scheme. But thofe of them, who with the honeft V...« less