An Appeal To The Religious Community On The Disputed Questions Of The Times In Three Lectures On The Doctrine Of Sacramental Efficacy The Claim Of Apostolical Succession And The Union Of Church And State

Author : John Ely
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483557475
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book An Appeal to the Religious Community, on the Disputed Questions of the Times written by John Ely and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Appeal to the Religious Community, on the Disputed Questions of the Times: In Three Lectures, on the Doctrine of Sacramental Efficacy, the Claim of Apostolical Succession, and the Union of Church and State If this definition be admitted, you will be prepared for a brief summary descriptive of evangelical piety. The immutable basis of all religion must be love to God and obedience to his will. In these, sinners have failed; and it is the doctrine of scripture that all men are sinners, that our first parents' fall brought ruin on the whole race, and that it is now in the nature of fallen man to sin. The gospel reveals mercy to our sinful race, - and, inasmuch as love and obedience are reasonable requirements, the obligation of which cannot be relaxed, -the system of mediation has been devised, wherein the innocent voluntarily suffers the penalty due to the sinful, that his vicarious merit may be a ground of their righteous acceptance. The incarnation and death of the Lord J esus, God's well-beloved Son, elevates this scheme to stupendous importance. It has none of the littleness of a mere expedient; mercy involves no compromise, and justice expresses nothing vindictive. An awful and an attractive display is made of love, transcendent love and of unbending rectoral integrity. Evangelical religion inspires dispositions appropriate to such a manifestation of Deity. First, and indispensably necessary, is faith, believing the manifestation, and embracing the method of recovering mercy: inseparably connected with faith is repentance, the sister grace, twin sister with faith, acknowledging the desert of sin, self renouncing and self-loathing, mourning the evil of offence against God: love is an immediate operation of faith, lowly, grateful, complacent love towards the God and F ather of our Lord J esus Christ, and towards the Saviour himself a purifying influence is exerted by these inward principles, and sin is abhorred and gradually purged away fellowship is sought with God, - prayer, holy song, devout meditation, ordinances of worship, are the delight of the soul: spirituality of mind takes place of worldliness, and victory is obtained over the world in its several forms of fascination and enslavement: active obedience is cheerfully rendered: submission to the divine will, and zeal for the divine glory, become the habit of life: and hope kindles with the prospect of immortal bliss in the presence of God and the Lamb. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.