Author: Joseph Priestley Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230378824 Category : Languages : en Pages : 88
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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. 1782 edition. Excerpt: ... THE HISTORY OF THE CORRUPTIONS. o F CHRISTIANITY. PART IV. *she History of Opinions relating to Saints and Angels. INTRODUCTION. TH E idolatry of the christian church began with the deification and proper worship of Jesus Christ, but it was far from ending with it. For, from similar causes, christians were soon led to pay an undue respect to men of eminent worth and sanctity, which at length terminated in as proper a worship of them, as that which the heathens had paid to their heroes and demigods, addressing prayer to them, in the fame manner, as to the supreme being himself. The same undue veneration led them also to a superstitious superstitious respect for their relics, the places where they had lived, their pictures and images, and indeed every thing that had borne a near relation to them; so that at length, not only were those persons whom they termed faints, the objects of their worship, but also their relics and images; and neither with respect to the external forms, nor, as far as we can perceive, their internal sentiments, were christians to be at all distinguished from those who .bowed down to wood and stone in the times of paganism. That this is a most horrid corruption of genuine Christianity I shall take for granted, there being no trace of any such practice, or of any principle that could lead to it, in the scriptures; but it may be useful to trace the causes and the progress of it, from the earliest ages of the christian church to the present time. And in order to do it as distinctly as possible, I shall divide the history of all the time preceding the reformation into two periods; the former extending to the fall of the western empire, or a little beyond the time of Austin, and the latter to the reformation itself; and...
Author: Joseph Priestley Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781348265283 Category : Languages : en Pages : 460
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Author: Joseph Priestley Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230433189 Category : Languages : en Pages : 88
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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. 1782 edition. Excerpt: ... of it; and his example is justly proposed to us under our trials and sufferings. Pet. ii, 11. Christ also hath suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow his steps, i John iii. 16. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he (that is Christ) laid down his life for us; and we ought also to lay down our lives for the brethren. SECTION III. Of the sense in which the death of Christ is represented as a facrifice, and other figurative representations of it. HAVING explained the one great and primary end of the life and death of Christ, and also pointed out the other secondary and subordinate ends which were likewise really answered by it, I shall now attempt to illustrate the figurative representations that are made of it by the facred writers. These have unfortunately misled many christians, and have been the occasion of their entertaining opinions concerning the end of Christ's coining into the world, quite different from those which appear upon the very face of the history; opinions which are contradicted by the whole tenor of revelation, and which are extremely in jurious to the character of the ever-blessed God. N 3 The The most remarkable of these figurative representations of the death of Christ, is that in which he is compared to a sacrifice, and as a figure, it is just and beautiful. In every sacrifice the victim is slain for the benefit of the person on whose account it is offered; so Christ, dying to procure the greatest possible benefit to the human race, is said to have given his life a sacrifice for us; and moreover as the end of the gospel is to promote the reformation of sinners, in order to procure the pardon of sin, the death of Christ is more expressly compared to asin offering. These points of...
Author: Joseph Priestley Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781015675896 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Author: Priestley Joseph Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9780526299096 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 498
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Author: Joseph Priestley Publisher: Nabu Press ISBN: 9781293930878 Category : Languages : en Pages : 466
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Author: Joseph Priestley Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 338213067X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 354
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