The Christian Philosopher Or The Connection Of Science And Philosophy With Religion Illustrated With Engravings Including A Portrait

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Excerpt from The Christian Philosopher: Or, the Connection of Science and Philosophy With Religion Such are the melancholy results to which men have been led, when left to the guidance of unassisted reason, in the most interesting and important of all investigations. They have wandered in the mazes of error and delusion and their researches, instead of directing and expanding our religious views, have tended only to bewilder the hu man mind, and to throw a deeper shade of intellectual gloom over our apostate world. After a period of Six thou sand years has been spent in anxious inquiries after the path to true knowledge and happiness - Ignorance, Super stition, Idolatry, Vice and Misery, still continue to sway their sceptre over the great majority of the human race; and, if we be allowed to reason from the past to the future, we may rest assured, that while mankind are destitute of a Guide superior to the glimmerings of depraved reason, they would be no nearer the object of their pursuit, after the lapse of sixty thousand years, than at the present mo ment. It is only in connection with the discoveries of Re velation that we can expect, that the efforts of human reason and activity will be successful in abolishing the reign of Ignorance and degrading Superstition - ih illu minating the benighted tribes of the Pagan World - and in causing Righteousness, and Order, and Peace, to spring forth beforeall the nations. Though' the Christian Re ligion has never yet been fully understood and recognised, in all its aspects and bearings, nor its requirements been cordially complied with, by the great body of those who profess to believe in its Divine origin, yet it is only in these nations who have acknowledged its authority, and in some measure, submitted to its dictates, that any thing approxi mating to just conceptions of the Supreme Intelligence, and of his moral government, is found to prevail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ... by a system of internal powers, beyond all human comprehension, as to the mode of their operation, such dismal effects are effectually prevented. In short, when we consider, that health depends upon such a numerous assemblage of moving organs, and that a single spring out of action, might derange the whole machine, and put a stop to all its complicated movements can we refrain from joining with the Psalmist, in his pious exclamation, and grateful resolution, " How precious are thy wonderful contrivances concerning me, O God! how great is the sum of them! I will praise tbee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.," Omitting the consideration of several other departments of science, I shall, in the meantime, notice only another subject connected with religion, and that is History. HISTORY. History embraces a record and description of past facts and events in reference to all the nations and ages of the world, in so far as they are known, and have been transmitted to our time. As Natural History contains a record of the operations of the Creator in the material world, so, sacred and civil history embraces a record of his transactions in the moral and intellectual world, or, in other words, a detail of the plans and operations of His Providence, in relation to the inhabitants of our globe. Through the medium of Sacred History we learn the period and the manner of man's creation--the reason of his fall from the primitive state of integrity in which he was created, and the dismal consequences which ensued;--the various movements of Providence in order to his recovery, and the means by which human Redemption was achieved;--the manner in which the Gospel was at first...

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