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A Discourse: The Substance of Which was Delivered at The Annual General Meeting of The Baptist Missionary Society, in Bristol, (Eng.) September, 1818
Excerpt from A Discourse: The Substance of Which Was Delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Baptist Missionary Society, in Bristol, (Eng.) September, 1818
They came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
It would be' an impertinent use of our time to spend many moments in apologizing for the practice, too common perhaps among preachers, of accommodating the merely secular facts of scripture history, or objects in nature, to the purpose oi representing, in the way of formal and extended parallel, the topics immediately belonging to religion. We may, however, just observe, that it seems to the honour of religion that'so many things can, without the art of forcing resemblances, be accommodated to its illustration. It is an evident and remark able fact, that there is a certain principle of correspondence to religion throughout the economy of the world. Things bearing an apparent analogy to its truths, sometimes more prominently, sometimes more abstrusely, present themselves on all sides to a thoughtful mind. He that made all things for himself ap pears to have willed that they should be a great system of emblems, reflecting or shadowing that system of principles in which we are to apprehend Him, and our relation and Obliga tions to Him. So that religion, standing up in grand parallel to an infinity Of things, receives their testimony and homage, and speaks with a voice which is echoed by the creation.
They came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
It would be' an impertinent use of our time to spend many moments in apologizing for the practice, too common perhaps among preachers, of accommodating the merely secular facts of scripture history, or objects in nature, to the purpose oi representing, in the way of formal and extended parallel, the topics immediately belonging to religion. We may, however, just observe, that it seems to the honour of religion that'so many things can, without the art of forcing resemblances, be accommodated to its illustration. It is an evident and remark able fact, that there is a certain principle of correspondence to religion throughout the economy of the world. Things bearing an apparent analogy to its truths, sometimes more prominently, sometimes more abstrusely, present themselves on all sides to a thoughtful mind. He that made all things for himself ap pears to have willed that they should be a great system of emblems, reflecting or shadowing that system of principles in which we are to apprehend Him, and our relation and Obliga tions to Him. So that religion, standing up in grand parallel to an infinity Of things, receives their testimony and homage, and speaks with a voice which is echoed by the creation.
106 pages, Hardcover
Published May 24, 2016
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John Foster
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John Foster was an English Baptist minister and essayist. He was educated for the ministry at the Baptist college in Bristol and Foster served as a minister for a number of years. Becoming a full-time writer, he contributed nearly 200 articles to the Eclectic Review. His works include Essays, in a Series of Letters (1804), and Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (1820), in which he urged the necessity of a national system of education.
(Source: en.Wikipedia.org)
John Foster was an English Baptist minister and essayist. He was educated for the ministry at the Baptist college in Bristol and Foster served as a minister for a number of years. Becoming a full-time writer, he contributed nearly 200 articles to the Eclectic Review. His works include Essays, in a Series of Letters (1804), and Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (1820), in which he urged the necessity of a national system of education.
(Source: en.Wikipedia.org)
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