Ten Sermons of Religions Author:Theodore Parker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Original Publisher: Rufus Leighton Subjects: Sermons Religion / Sermons / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos o... more »r 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: II. OF TRUTH AND THE INTELLECT. BUY THE TRUTH, AND SELL IT NOT; ALSO WISDOM, AMD INSTRUCTION, AND UNDERSTANDING. -- PfOV. Xxiii. 23. Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. It is the harmony of all the members thereof; the true symmetry and right proportion of part with part, of each with all, and so the worship of God with every limb of the body. Wisdom is to the mind what temperance, in this sense, is to the body; it is intellectual piety; the presence of divine order in the mind; the harmony of all the faculties thereof; the true symmetry and right proportion of faculty with faculty, of each with all. It is a general power of intellect, which may turn in any one or in all directions; the poet is a wise man in what relates to poetry; the philosopher, the statesman, the man of business, each in what relates to his particular function. So it is a general power ofmind. We say " knowledge is power," but mean wisdom, which is general intellectual ability, the power of knowing and of using truth. This wisdom implies two things: the love of truth as truth, which I spoke of the other day as the intellectual side of piety; and, secondly, the power to possess and use this truth, either in the specific form which is sought by the philosopher, poet, statesman, and man of business, or else in some more general form including all these; the power of getting truth either by the mode of reflection, as truth demonst...« less