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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review
The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review Author:Peter Walker Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: class of Methodists themselves do not deny it, that their system of revivals and periodical excitements brings within their churches multitudes who profess to be... more » the subjects of divine grace, who are deluded by mere emotional excitement, and who relapse into their former state, and become almost inaccessible to all subsequent impressions. The facts connected with this subject are so numerous and so well authenticated as to be really appalling. It cannot be otherwise. What is false in their system of doctrine and theory of religion, must produce the bitter fruits of evil, just in proportion as it is prominently presented and acted out. We have no disposition to pursue this subject; though it is one which calls loudly for the serious attention of all the friends of religion. In proportion as the Methodists become educated, and enabled to understand what Calvinism is, they become less bigoted and denunciatory, and we hope that many of the evils connected with their system will be lessened, if not entirely removed, by their progress in professional knowledge, which need not interfere either with their zeal or their hard working. Art. III.— The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Compte.— Freely translated and condensed by Harriet Martineau. New York: Published by Calvin Blanchard, 1855. While the truth is evermore one, it follows that all believers have " one faith," in so far as their faith is genuine. Their differences, therefore, arise from the residues of unbelief which still abide in them to weaken and corrupt that faith. As they go onward increasing in faith and knowledge, this residual disturbing element is proportionally eliminated—a process which is destined to continue, till all differences shall vanish by the ultimate extinction,of all unbelief; "till we all come in the un...« less