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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1874. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. THE DENIAL OF THE BIBLE REDEMPTION, OR SPIRITUALISM. Cftange in the enemy's tactics -- Rationalism confessedly beaten on the field of Biblical criticism -- Coleridge's remark --The doctrines of redemption granted by rationalistic theologians and philosophers to be in the sacred text --The warfare shifted from the ground of critical interpretation to that of speculative philosophy -- Change that has come over Unitarianism: its pretensions philosophical rather than exegetical--The "School of Progress "--Parker's "Discourse on Religion "-- Newman's " Phases of Faith "--Mackay's "Progress of the Intellect"--Tendency of Mr. Morell's speculations -- Examination of the moral argument against the evangelical doctrines --The argument stated -- Refutation of it: unsupported by analogy --View given by it of the Divine character is one-sided and partial -- Scripture doctrine of depravity accords with actual condition of man -- Pardon on the ground of an atonement consistent with the paternity of God -- Reasonableness of the Scripture doctrine of spiritual regeneration -- Sustained by an appeal to three undeniable facts -- Charge of gloominess against the doctrines of redemption shown to be unfounded -- Quotations from Jonathan Edwards and Cowper, MORE than half a century ago, the battle raged keenly between the defendants and assailants of the New Testament doctrines on the field of Biblical criticism. Neology and rationalism in Germany brought a large though unhallowed amount of scholarship to the attempt to expel from the sacred volume those doctrines which have been generally regarded as its distinguishing truths. And the same warfare was prosecuted with much vigor in our own country. The cool daring of the French atheistical philosophy infected men'...
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