A Letter From a Blacksmith to the Ministers and Elders of the Church of Scotland: In Which the Manner of Public Worship in the Church Is Considered; ... And Methods for Removing Them Humbly Propsed - Softcover

Theal, George McCall

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ISBN 10: 1331379334 ISBN 13: 9781331379331

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017

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Excerpt from A Letter From a Blacksmith to the Ministers and Elders of the Church of Scotland: In Which the Manner of Public Worship in the Church Is Considered; Its Inconveniences and Defects Pointed Out; And Methods for Removing Them Humbly Propsed

Or had I hoped ever to have feen amore favourable feafon than the prefent, I would patient ly have waited for it. But now We are blelted with a learned body of clergy, with a prince well dif 'pofed to promote true piety among his people, and we have the happinefs toalive in an age, in which the prejudices of parties are moi'tly worn oil, the rage of difpute abated, and men difpofed to hear truth, and obey reafon, fuch peaceful happy days are defigned by heaven, and ought to be employed by men, to repair in religion, what has been pulled down by mad paliions, in ttirbulent times', to te fiore to its firft beauty, Whatever has been defaced by party prejudices in the days of contention, and to recover the purity of our faith, and decency of our wbrfh'ip', from the tuft and lowr{uperfiition which they have contracted m the ignorant ages, and tinctures of enthufiafm they imbibed in the' ihock and tumult of the reformation. There was no church that met with greater oppofition, or was more violently agitated t an ours; and tho' (thank.

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Excerpt from A Letter From a Blacksmith to the Ministers and Elders of the Church of Scotland: In Which the Manner of Public Worship in the Church Is Considered; Its Inconveniences and Defects Pointed Out; And Methods for Removing Them Humbly Propsed

But now we are blessed with a learned body of clergy, with a prince well disposed to promote true piety among his people, and we have the happiness to live in an age, in which the prejudices of parties are mostly worn off, the rage of dispute abated, and men disposed to hear truth, and obey reason; such peaceful happy days are designed by heaven, and ought to be employed by men, to repair in religion, what has been pulled down by mad passions, in turbulent times; to restore to its first beauty, whatever has been defaced by party prejudices in the days of contention, and to recover the purity of our faith, and decency of our worship, from the rust and low superstition which they have contracted in the ignorant ages; and tinctures of enthusiasm they imbibed in the shock and tumult of the reformation. There was no church that met with greater opposition, or was more violently agitated than ours; and tho' (thank God) it stood out the storm, yet it suffered very severely; and when the fury was in some degree abated, and men had time to look about them, our church appeared little better than a ruin her sacred buildings levelled with the ground, or bare mattered walls, the standing monuments of religious madness; her treasures robbed by sacrilegious hands; her registers destroyed, or carried off; her funds applied to profane uses; and her clergy left to starve: would to God me had suffered only in these less essential things.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1331379334
• ISBN 13: 9781331379331
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 76