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Excerpt from The Oberlin Quarterly Review, Vol. 1: August, 1845 Kant and the various and con ictin systems of church po ity and ecclesiastical domination. Fie have chosen this mode of conducting our inquiries, not rashly, but deliberately; not because we delight in controversy for its own sake, but be cause we are convinced that the interests of truth imperiously demand it. A thin gilding of gold may give worth and our reney to a piece of brass or copper; and a sprinkling of re cions truth may recommend to the fellowship of Christian oc trines a mass of debasing and destructive error. Before the false coin can be torn from the avaricious grasp of the miser, trituration, or the crucible, must strip it of its hypocritical mask and philosophical analysis and the tests of strict logic, must effect a separation of the precious from the vile, in doc trine, and reveal in isolated hideousness, the native and essen tial form of error, before it can be wrenched away from the bosom of the sectary or be erased from his creed. It is not sufficient to prevent the circulation of spurious coin, sim 1y to say that there is much of it in the world. Nor is it su cient to check the in uence of error, to assert that many false doc trines have found their way into the creeds of the church and into the speculations of the philosopher. Before there is any the less of either, indubitable tests must detect the base alloy of this particular coin and of that particular doctrine. No one we think, who has attentively considered the matter, will rec ognize in this comparison any thing unfair or exaggerated. For ourselves, we have not the slightest hope that systems of doctrines, bearing on their brow the lorious crown and the deeply graven lines of age bound to t e heart by the chains of custom, and that self-worship which must needs honor the wisdom of first selection, by unchanging constancy and con solidated and supported by that spontaneous reverence which antiquity never fails to inspire, and the in uence of filial te gard in which even the worst of mankind participate and the force of parental instruction and parental example against the moulding power of which none are fully proof; and forms of expression and modes of thought and feeling linked with the earliest and and holiest memories of childhood; and peculiar ities of forms of worship and organizations of society, civil and ecclesiastical - however replete they may be with dan10 Introductory Essay. 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."
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Excerpt from The Oberlin Quarterly Review, Vol. 3: August, 1847 Lectures on the moral inyerfection of Christians, designed to show, that while sinless erfection is obligatory on all, it is attained none: By Seth illiston, author of the He Divine ruth; a Vindication of the Doctrines of the tion, etc. New York, . M. W. Dodd, 1846, pp 262. 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.
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Excerpt from The Oberlin Quarterly Review: January, 1849 Thus a divine brotherhood is created unlike all others, and as superior to them as that which, in its nature, is unchange able and eternal, is to that which is mutable and transitory, a divine brotherhood, very properly denominated in the scriptures, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people. Thus, too, a form of virtue is manifested to the world, more benign and attractive, and more indicative of its divine origin, than hny other of which the human mind has ever conceived. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one toward another. I. The next inquiry which arises is, the conditions on which we are required to exercise this peculiar form of love towards any individuals or classes of men. As the precept requiring its exercise has its basis in one fact exclusively, the actual existence of moral purity, so this precept binds us to its exercise relatively to particular individuals or classes of men, when and only when the actual existence of such pu rity in them has been manifested to as in their visible con duct. By their fruits ye shall know them. Holiness manifested is the exclusive condition of obligation to exer cise brotherly love towards any persons whatever. How ever holy and pure an individual may be, no obligation rests upon us to esteem and treat him as such, till we have the means of knowing his character as it is. 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.
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