The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1230218114 ISBN 13: 9781230218113

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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: ... The rise and progress of religion in the soul: addresses Philip Doddridge RISE AND PROGRESS OF RELIGION IN THE SOUL CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.--DESIGN OF THE WORK. WHEN we look round about us with an attentive eye, and consider the characters and pursuits of men, we plainly see, that though m the original constitutim. of their nature, they only, of all the creatures that dwell on the face of the earth, are capable of religion, yet many of them shamefully neglect it. And whatever different notions people may entertain of what they call religion, all must agree in owning, that it is very far from being a universal thing. Religion, in its most general view, is such a sense of Cod on the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations to him, and of our dependence upon him, as shall engage us to make it our great care, to conduct ourselves in a manner, which we have reason to believe will be pleasing to him. Now when we have given this plain account of religion, it is by no means necessary that we should search among the savages of the African or Ame rican nations to find instances of those who are strangers to it. When we view the conduct of the generality of people at home, in a Christian and Protestant nation, in a nation whose obligations to God have been singular, almost beyond those of any other people under heavenu will any one presume to say that religion has an universal reign among us? Will any one suppose, that it prevails in every life, that it reigns in every heart? Alas! the avowed infidelity, the profanation of the name and day of God, the drunkenness, the lewdness, the injustice, the falsehood, the pride, the prodigality, the base selfishness, and stupid insensibility to the spiritual and eternal int

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• ISBN 10: 1230218114
• ISBN 13: 9781230218113
• Einband: Tapa blanda