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A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto
A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1699
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Let us suppose a rational susceptibleness, or capacity of Religion, to be the difference of Man, wherein the Controversy may seem to admit of being compromised; whether it be Religion, alone, or Reason, alone, of which this must be said, that it distinguishes Man from the Inferior Creatures. And let it be Reason, with this addition, an aptness (suspicere numen) to be imprest with some Religious Sentiment, or to conceive of, and adore, an Original Being. The wise, and mighty Author, and Cause of all things. And now, how near ⟨p. 202⟩akin are Religion, and Humanity
Let us suppose a rational susceptibleness, or capacity of Religion, to be the difference of Man, wherein the Controversie may seem to admit of being compromis'd; whether it be Religion, alone, or Reason, alone, of which this must be said, that it distinguishes Man from the Inferiour Creatures. And let it be Reason, with this addition, an aptness (suspicere numen) to be imprest with some Religious Sentiment, or to conceive of, and adore, an Original Being. The wise, and mighty Author, and Cause of all things. And now, how near ⟨p. 202⟩akin are Religion, and Humanity
Let us, next, understand Christianity, to be the Religion of fallen Man, designing his Recovery, out of a lapsed, and lost State; i. e.
Let us, next, understand Christianity, to be the Religion of fal'n Man, designing his Recovery, out of a lapsed, and lost State; i. e.
Man having violated the Law of his Creation, and offended against the Throne and Government of his Creator, the Supreme, and Universal Lord of all. It was reckoned not becoming so great a Majesty (tho' it was not intended to abandon the Offenders to an Universal Ruin, without Remedy) to be reconciled, otherwise than by a Mediator and a Reconciling Sacrifice. For which, none being found competent, but the Eternal Son of God, the Brightness of his Glory, and the express Image of his own Person, who was also the First and the Last, the Lord God Almighty; and partaking