Lectures On the Insufficiency of Unrevealed Religion And On the Succeeding Infl
Lectures On the Insufficiency of Unrevealed Religion And On the Succeeding Infl
Richard Burgess
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In this manner it is that we may account for the de- plorable state of those countries in which St. Paul "208 MORAL INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY. [lECT. first planted the Churches of Christ ^ : the moral influence of which I speak has vanished, and men have been left to follow their own imaginations until their latter state has become worse than the first, and they are to every good work reprobate. Now what has happened to whole nations may happen to individuals, which circumstance in- duces us to... turn to the immediate influence of God's truth — that is to say, the spiritual influ- ence as distinct from the moral, in order to show, that if, whilst we hear we obey not the truth, or if, having received it, whether with a degree of wil- lingness or indiflerence, we hold it in unright- eousness, the individual soul becomes the subject of all the just judgments of heaven : neither hardness of heart nor contempt of God's word and commandments will be slow to succeed the backslidings and departures from the light of truth, until the evil heart is ready to receive the seeds of every spiritual enemy which may arise * The establishment of Islamism upon the ruins of Christi- anity in the East, is, I think, a striking example of God's judg- ments upon apostate nations.
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