The advantage and necessity of the Christian revelation, shewn from the state of religion in the antient heathen world Volume 2; . To which is ... discourse on natural and revealed religion. - Softcover

Leland, John

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ISBN 10: 1150619236 ISBN 13: 9781150619236

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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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. 1764 Excerpt: ...that "can repeat the Stoic reasonings. Shew me some person, formed "according to the principles which he professes. Shew me one "who is sick and happy, in danger and happy, dying and happy, "exiled and happy, disgraced and happy. Shew him me; for, by "heaven, I long to see a Stoic. Shew me one who is approaching "towards this character: do me the favour: do not refuse an old man a sight which he hath never yet seen." Here he complains, that he never yet saw a true Stoic, one that acted up to their principles. But what he represents as impracticable, and nowhere to be found, the seeing a man happy in sickness, danger, exile, disgrace, and death, was actually verified in many of the primitive Christians.-Not that they looked upon these things, in the Stoical language, to be perfectly indifferent, and no evils at all; but because they were persuaded that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which Jhall be revealed: and that this light afficlion which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Rom. viii. 18. 2 Cor. iv.-17. Supported and animated by these glorious hopes, and by the gracious assistance of God's Holy Spirit, they gloried even in tribulation: They were, as St. Paul expresseth it, as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; troubled on every fide, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; as having nothing, yet possessing all things; and performed things which would otherwise I i 2 have have seemed impracticable. The reader may consult the passages referred to at the bottom of the page, which are admirable to this purpose t). There is one farther observation which I would offer concerning the Stoical doctrine of morals, and that ...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1150619236
• ISBN 13: 9781150619236
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144