The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester (7)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ...wrath, but also for Conscience Sake." Ch. xiii. J, & seq.' But But even this is not the worst. Christianity not only gives no forensic strength to society, but takes away much of its natural. So says our illustrious citizen.--" Further, Christianity is so far from attaching the hearts of citizens to the state, that it detaches them, as it were, from All Terrestrial Things. I know nothing more contrary than this, to the social spirit." With what a commodious fallacy has our citizen here supplied his argument! It required him to shew, that Christianity detached us from society. He could not do that; he therefore slips in, in the place of society--all terrestrial things. Had scripture condemned society, it had been something to his purpose; for then it might be supposed, that Jesus and the Citizen of Geneva had just the same opinion of civil society. But when a detachment from earthly things is commanded, it is to be understood CompaRatively; and when the comparison is between earthly and heavenly, the command is reasonable and just. Let us see then how the sage propagators of our holy faith have conducted themselves on this delicate question. The learned apostle of the Gentiles directs his followers, that they use this world As Not ABUSING IT.--j pwjiA ij!j w? jiui X t/)u/s o .---lie adds a reason--For the Fashion of this world passelh away f;--rxf, p Ts xia-s T t --the scene of things in this world.--The sober advice here given, is to enjoy the blessings which Providence hath. bestowed upon us in this state, -with Temperance and Justice: but not to make the most of them, in the sense and language of voluptuous and worldly men, who care Bien plus; loin d'attacher les cceurs des citoyens a l'Etal, lle les en ...