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Could you give us an idea as to what is covered in this book, Andrew?
An entire book on this subject? Wow, sounds like an interesting read!
Interesting. Thank you, Andrew.
An entire book on this subject? Wow, sounds like an interesting read!
Many of the ignorant followers of [George] Whitfield talked of seeing "Christ." Deceived by misunderstanding the word as used in the Fourth Gospel, where seeing means, as often elsewhere, knowing or having an intellectual apprehension, they thought they must have an apparition of Jesus in either a human, transfigured, or glorified form. To expose this and similar delusions Erskine composed a volume entitled, "Faith no Fancy; or, A Treatise of Mental Images."
The learned De Vries and and Maftricht, and other eminent doctors and divines abroad, contend fo ftrenuoufly againft the Cartefian doctrine; concerning ideas of God, as leading to imagery and idolatry, that, to me, it appears very dangerous to admit of fuch ideas.
At Utrecht Voetius, Nethenus, and van Mastricht showed favor to Scottish Presbyterians, and van Mastricht went so far as to praise the discipline of the Church of Scotland as 'the purest that had been since the apostles' days'.