Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Is it not strange, to observe how carefully philosophers, who deplore the condition of world, and profess to expect its amelioration their speculations clear of every idea of Divine interposition? No builders of houses or cities were ever more attentive to guard the access of inundation and fire.
If He should but touch their prospective theories of improvement they would renounce them as defiled and fit only for vulgar fanaticism. Their system of Providence would be profaned by the intrusion of the Almighty. Man is to affect an apotheosis for himself, by the hopeful process of exhausting corruptions.
And should it take all but an endless series of ages, vices, and woes, to reach this glorious attainment, patience may sustain itself the while by the thought that when it is realized, it will be burdened with no duty of religious gratitude. ...
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If He should but touch their prospective theories of improvement they would renounce them as defiled and fit only for vulgar fanaticism. Their system of Providence would be profaned by the intrusion of the Almighty. Man is to affect an apotheosis for himself, by the hopeful process of exhausting corruptions.
And should it take all but an endless series of ages, vices, and woes, to reach this glorious attainment, patience may sustain itself the while by the thought that when it is realized, it will be burdened with no duty of religious gratitude. ...
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John Foster on the opposition of godless philosophers to Divine intervention in human affairs
Is it not strange, to observe how carefully philosophers, who deplore the condition of world, and profess to expect its amelioration their speculations clear of every idea of Divine interposition? …
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