Faith No Fancy

Author : Ralph Erskine
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365253426
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Faith No Fancy, Or a Treatise of Mental Images written by Ralph Erskine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Faith No Fancy, or a Treatise of Mental Images: Discovering the Vain Philosophy and Vile Divinity of a Late Pamphlet Intitled, Mr. Robe's Fourth Letter to Mr. Fisher The author I have to do with, helm, as will appear in our progrel's, very much dtfpoi'ed to extenuate the errors and corruptions of this church, which the Afi'ociate Prejbytery give teiiimony again. But, if aim; other thingr, the tupreme Godhead and proper Divinity of our lord joins Cheili, as God equal with the Father and the Holy Gholl, whenit was openly attacked, wagnot duly mtneii'ed for in the judica tunes, 'there may be reafon to fear, that the dilhonots done to the Me lliator in his beity, -.as well as in his other royal prerogatives as King in Zion, may have provoked God to leave many of this generation to follow divers andiirange dou'trines, and to give them up to hang de inlioua and vain imaginations. Oi' which one of the moi grofsaad dangerous is the imgiuay idea of Cirifi as more which is a conception Minding, at the ntmoli extent of it, no other view of him but merely inhis humanity._ God hath given us the glafs of his word; where, if alfo give us the eye of faith, we may lee Chrill, our incarnate God. Piniiohe has told us of another glafsmnamely, that of an imaginary tries, wherein we can only tee him as man. And, whether this is help ful to the other, is part of the inquiry i am to make in the following treatife. Mr. Robe, in the title, and in the t'econd page of his letter, lodertakes to difcover the fraud and falihood of the Appendix of my later, intitled, Fraud and Fall'elhood difcovered. How he hath llanaged this undertaking, the feqoel may evidence. Only, if he had found out in that Appendix fomething of yet greater eoni'eqnence than fried and falfltood, and had he been very fore and confident that there was herefy and blal'phemy vented therein, then th'mk the. 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.