Christian Weapons Not Carnal But Spiritual a Sermon Delivered in the Second
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In short, every method, of propagating truth, or of recommending duty, ei- ther real or supposed, — which unhallowed princi- ples suggest, or unhallowed motives prompt, or w liich, in one word, is not in conformity with the Word and Spirit of God, may be pronounced a cai' nul weapon^ the use of which our text indirectly, but most solemnly, forbids. But it may not be unprofitable to specify, a little more in detail, some of those means which are fre- quently resorted to, for the professed purpos...e of propagating religion, and which evidently belong to the class proscribed by the apostle in the passage before us. And at the head of the list, may be placed peuse- icuiioN, whether ia its more gross and violent, or 11 in its more miti2;atpcl forms. Bj the former, you will readily un. Lerstand to be meant all those cases in which the " secular arm" has interfered to en- force the claims of a particular religious denomina- tion, or of a particular set of opinions, by fire and sword, — by fines and forfeitures, — by racks and chains, and banishment, and all the various penal- ties which oppressive governments, civil and eccle- siastical, have so often, and so grievously inflicted.
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