Author: Associate Professor of Psychology Richard Lucas

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-21

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9780483566569

Excerpt from Religious Perfection, or a Third Part of the Enquiry After Happiness, Vol. 2: Heb. Vi. I After this thort account of my defign, the next thing I am to do, is to prevent, if I can, thofe prejudices which may either wholly fruftrate, or at leaf't very much hinder and diminifh the fuccefs and in fluence of it. Some are apt to fiartle at the very mention of Perfection they have entertained fuch humble thoughts, not only of human nature, but, as it feems, of di vine grace too, and evangelical righteouf nefs, that all talk of Perfection feems to them like the preaching a new gofpel, and an obtruding upon the world a fantafiick fcheme of proud and pretending morality. 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.