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Discourses on Several Subjects, Addressed to the Congregation Assembled in Christ Church, Bath
Discourses on Several Subjects Addressed to the Congregation Assembled in Christ Church Bath Author:Charles Daubeny General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1816 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: DISCOURSE III. .-i. i j/i "' ' JnAtXe'e1'7' J /sf!j "' ' J f COLOSS. in. 9, 10. - ,- : i .- .:; iiT ;.. : : j -., ji (Sieemg f/taf ye have put o/f Me old Mttn wiih his Deeds,- and have' ptit tin 'ike new Man' which it renewed iti Knowledge, after the' ' ' ' 'I ' f !-- Image of Him that 'credted him. JlO acquire an uniform and consistent knowledge relative to the great scheme of redemption, which li; ul its origin in the fall of our first parents, and its accomplishment in the work which the Son of God came into . the worM to finish ; for- the gracious purpose of restoring man to the capability of attaining to that life which ha. d been lost; will doubtless be considered as constituting the most important employment' the human mind. For without Knowing what man was in his primeval primeval state of perfection, and duly considering what he now is, in his fallen condition,- we cannot attain unto the proper knowledge of God, either as our Creator, our Redeemer, or our Sanctifier. From ignorance on this important subject it is, that the divinity of our Saviour has at different times been called in question. For those, whom the pride of the natural man will not permit to consider the faculties of the human soul to have become by Adam's Fall, like an instrument out of tune, will not be disposed to admit the necessity of means to restore them to order. Hence, either by turning away froth the oracles of truth entirely, ot so fat- neglecting to appreciate their contents, as riot, by an honest enquiry, to obtain satisfactory knowledge of the doctrines which the Church- baa derived from them ; many who...« less