The Works of William Ellery Channing, Volume 3American Unitarian Association, 1903 - Theology |
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... revelation from God must be adapted to the rational and moral nature which he has conferred on man ; that God can never contradict in his Word what he has himself written on the human heart , or teaches in his works and providence ...
... revelation from God must be adapted to the rational and moral nature which he has conferred on man ; that God can never contradict in his Word what he has himself written on the human heart , or teaches in his works and providence ...
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... revelations from Heaven , and which is plainly designed for the moral improvement of the race , to favor those explications of obscure passages , which are seen to har- monize with the moral attributes of God , and with the acknowledged ...
... revelations from Heaven , and which is plainly designed for the moral improvement of the race , to favor those explications of obscure passages , which are seen to har- monize with the moral attributes of God , and with the acknowledged ...
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... revelations to mankind , and particularly of the last and most perfect revelation of his will by Jesus Christ . Whatever doctrines seem to us to be clearly taught in the Scriptures , we receive without reserve or exception . We do not ...
... revelations to mankind , and particularly of the last and most perfect revelation of his will by Jesus Christ . Whatever doctrines seem to us to be clearly taught in the Scriptures , we receive without reserve or exception . We do not ...
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... revelation , to prefer our own wisdom to God's . Loose and undefined charges of this kind are circulated so freely , that we think it due to our- selves , and to the cause of truth , to express our views with some particularity . Our ...
... revelation , to prefer our own wisdom to God's . Loose and undefined charges of this kind are circulated so freely , that we think it due to our- selves , and to the cause of truth , to express our views with some particularity . Our ...
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... revelation be at war with this faculty , it subverts itself , for the great question of its truth is left by God to be decided at the bar of reason . It is worthy of re- mark , how nearly the bigot and the skeptic approach . Both would ...
... revelation be at war with this faculty , it subverts itself , for the great question of its truth is left by God to be decided at the bar of reason . It is worthy of re- mark , how nearly the bigot and the skeptic approach . Both would ...
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Page 7 - ... to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles ; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom ; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus : whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.
Page 174 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 175 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 64 - Need I descend to particulars to prove that the Scriptures demand the exercise of reason? Take, for example, the style in which they generally speak of God, and observe how habitually they apply to him human passions and organs. Recollect the declarations of Christ: that he came not to send peace but a sword; that unless we eat his flesh and drink his blood we have no life in us...
Page 10 - For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Page 130 - ... intellect become more restless : and Christianity brings them tranquillity, by the eternal and magnificent truths, the solemn and unbounded prospects, which it unfolds. This fitness of our religion to more advanced stages of society than that in which it was introduced, to wants of human nature not then developed, seems to me very striking. The religion bears the marks of having come from a Being who perfectly understood the human mind, and had power to provide for its progress.
Page 85 - Orthodoxy, and which is now industriously propagated through our country. This system indeed takes various shapes, but in all it casts dishonor on the Creator. According to its old and genuine form, it teaches that God brings us into life wholly depraved...
Page 163 - And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength : this is the first commandment.
Page 84 - To give our views of God, in one word, we believe in his Parental character. We ascribe to him, not only the name, but the dispositions and principles of a father. We believe that he has a father's concern for his creatures, a father's desire for their improvement, a father's equity in proportioning his commands to their powers, a father's joy in their progress, a father's readiness to receive the penitent, and a father's justice for the incorrigible.
Page 80 - These latter passages we do not hesitate to modify, and restrain, and turn from the most obvious sense, because this sense is opposed to the known properties of the beings to whom they relate ; and we maintain, that we adhere to the same principle, and use no greater latitude, in explaining, as we do, the passages which are thought to support the Godhead of Christ.