For the Oracles of God Four Orations for Judgment to Come An Argument in Nin
For the Oracles of God Four Orations for Judgment to Come An Argument in Nin
Edward Irving
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How, then, is man to escape ? Here we find ourselves again at a stand, from which I challenge human reason to deliver us, or afford us the shadow of a shelter. If God had not written out a law, sustaining our own conscience of good and evil, in all its purest judgments, and passing clean beyond into a region of superhuman, un- clouded, celestial purity, there would have been a way of es- cape. You might have alleged against conscience what has been alleged by the jurisconsult, (noticed in the p...receding dis- course, ) that it was a varying faculty in various minds, and not to be accounted of as a standard of the right and wrong. And there I think that jurisconsult is right, as he is also in seeking for something tangible which may be submitted to calculation by the lawgiver and expounded in the shape of statute, not left in the fluctuating uncertainty of private feel- ing. Which seeing that God hath done giving us fixed and formal statutes upon (I will not sayj calculations of utility, but most certainly issuing therein, there is no eluding or shunning of them ; they must stand altogether, or altogether fall they must be rejected altogether, or altogether be adopted.
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