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Faith victorious, an account of the life and times of J. Ebel
Faith victorious an account of the life and times of J Ebel Author:Jacob Isidor Mombert 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: CHAPTER V. SCHONHERR AND FALSE FRIENDS. The characterization of Ebel's ministry at the Old- Town Church may be appropriately interrupted to make room for a... more »n important episode belonging to the year 1819, which culminated in his separation from Schpn- herr. What Ebel owed to him, and how gratefully he acknowledged the obligation, has already been stated ; the points on which they agreed have also been pointed out; those on which they differed have now to be narrated. Their differences sprang from a different disposition. Schonherr was dogmatical, positive, impatient of contradiction, self-willed and self-righteous; Ebel was receptive, tender-hearted, strong-minded, clear, amiable, yielding and humble. In all matters relating to personal inconvenience, involving self-denial, or the surrender of opinion without the saorifice of principle, he would exhibit the most engaging and winsome disposition; but in things pertaining to God, in matters of principle and conscience, whether they bore on doctrine or practice, he knew no compromise or submission ; his convictions, based on Holy Scripture and not adopted in formulas of party, had so thoroughly interpenetrated the whole texture of his nature, that they dominated in all his relations, and stamped them with the impress of the purest Christianity ; in everything that departed from the precepts of Christ, conflicted with Christian doctrine, or was opposed to the highest ends of religion, his burning zeal for the honor of God and his quick, deep-searching, penetrating conscience would be the sole arbiter of choice, and compel his course. Not that he was hasty, for he was calm, cautious and deliberate ; or obstinate, for he was amiable; or arbitrary, for he was fair ; no, conviction and a high sense of duty regulated his actio...« less