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The Moral Tendency of Divine Revelation Asserted and Illustrated
The Moral Tendency of Divine Revelation Asserted and Illustrated Author:John Jones Subtitle: In Eight Discourses Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year Mdcccxxi, at the Lecture Founded by the Late Rev. John Bampton, M.a., Canon of Salisbury General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1821 Original Publisher: At the University Press for the author Subjects: Revelation Christian ethics ... more » Religion / Ethics Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics 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: SERMON II. Levit. xix. 2. . - - - t Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. AS the existence of a Supreme Being, the Creator and Governor of the universe, is the foundation of all Religion, so to the purity of that Religion nothing is more indispensable, than that men should have just and honourable conceptions of Him, whom they acknowledge as their God. It is unquestionable, that men will serve God according to their ideas of his nature; andit is vain to expect, that if those ideas are either mean or impure, the Religion produced by them should have any elevation of sentiment or any holiness of practice. For what is Religion ? Is it not that duty, or the rule of that duty, which men are bound to perform to Almighty God ? It is therefore of the essence of Religion, that it be offered to the Supreme Being in the form which may be thought most acceptable to Him; and that form will obviously be thought most acceptable, which comes nearest to men's ideas of his nature. This is undeniable. It is indeed the rule whichguides men continually in their conduct one towards another. If favour is to be sought, or gratitude to be expressed, ...« less