The Theological Works Of The Rev John Howard Hinton Ecclesiastical And Theological Pieces

Author : John Howard Hinton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483233065
Total Pages : 522 pages
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Download or read book The Theological Works of the Rev. John Howard Hinton, M. A, Vol. 6 of 6 written by John Howard Hinton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Theological Works of the Rev. John Howard Hinton, M. A, Vol. 6 of 6: Lectures, Sermons, and Controversy IN the few lines which appeared as the General Preface in the First Volume of this Work, I expressed (what I sincerely felt) a sense of the solemnity of my position as a voluminous theological writer. What I felt seriously then I feel much more deeply now, that the last of six volumes is issuing from the press. This sense of solemnity may well be deepened by a recollection of the early age at which I commenced authorship. The first edition of my Theology was published in the year when I was but thirty-six years of age - an early period of life, it may be thought, for writing on a class of subjects which demand not only a well-furnished mind, but a mature judgment. My system, however (if I may be allowed the expres sion), was not then new to me; I had arrived at it, not only at the earliest period of my ministry, but in my earliest experience of religion. My father (whose memory I justly revere) was a Moderate Calvinist of the Andrew Fuller type; and I recollect well, while my entrance on the ministry was yet under consideration, reading to him the plan of a sermon on Mark vi. 12 They went out, and preached that men should repent. I noticed, in the first place, the things implied: as, first, that men were sinners; and, secondly, that they were able to repent. I seem to see at this moment the genial laugh into which he broke out, as he exclaimed, Ah! 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.